No Baseball Will Be Played Tonight
Philly.com and the Police confirm what we all assumed based on what we see out our windows and on the radars:
Philadelphia Police have confirmed that Game 5 of the World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays will not be held tonight.
Weirdest sporting situation ever. Also, it may snow tomorrow, inviting a dream scenario for the next epic pelting incident.
only in Philadelphia
Posted by: Brendan | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:18 PM
i hear there is snow and 20's tomorrow in the forecast so this might get bumped to Thursday?
this is truly the strangest thing Ive ever seen in sports.
Posted by: MPR529 | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:19 PM
Somewhere in heaven Milli Vanilli are smiling.
Oh, only one of them's dead huh?
/whatever you do don't put the blame on you...
Posted by: The Phunyun | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:21 PM
Not that I'm wishing for this by any stretch... but if this gets pushed back enough, how about bringing Hamels back for a game 7?
Posted by: Carl | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:22 PM
Bug Selig's new interpretation of the "rules": The remaining 3 innings shall be played as a "Salute to My Fuck-ups 2009". It will be held at the Phillies spring training facility in Clearwater on April 17, 2009.
I'll check the farmers almanac to see if its raining that day....I cant wait.
Posted by: MikeyCotton | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:22 PM
@ Carl
LOL...at this rate that may not be too far-fetched. This is nuts!!
Posted by: Bob | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:26 PM
This keeps getting stranger. The game will probably be held on Thursday at this rate. Odd that they are giving up so quickly on the game, but its muffed up out there.
Go Phillies whenever they play!
and go Flyers tonight!
Posted by: BFisch | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:26 PM
The game time will start at 8:37, a few minutes after the Obama advertisement ends.
Posted by: Mike H. | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:30 PM
this is all not how i envisioned it, so it's exactly the way it's supposed to be!
Posted by: ron | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:31 PM
It's 80 degrees, with sunshine and bright blue skies here in Phoenix....MOVE THE GAME OUT HERE!!!
Posted by: AZTerror | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:31 PM
I can't wait until next year when the World Series is tentatively scheduled to begin October 28 with game seven (if necessary) to be played on Nov. 5.
A Boston/Philly World Series would look great in the snow next year.
Posted by: The Phunyun | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:31 PM
Actually, I'm wrong. The Obama thing is on Thursday. My bad.
Posted by: Mike H. | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:32 PM
Just also read somewhere that there will be no champion this year, season's over, better luck next year.
Oh well, I just got a bunch of new video games, I'll be geeking it up hard core tonight. Fallout 3, booya.
Posted by: Not a fan of five | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:33 PM
Mike, I think you were right before, it's tomorrow.
Posted by: Kulp | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:33 PM
Get Santa Claus on the field if it starts snowing!
Great article from yahoo! btw on the state of this series:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-wssuspendedgamefive102708&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
Posted by: Brett | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:37 PM
Guess this is hell freezing over. Literally.
Another thing. I'm waiting for Selig to move the rest of the game to a "neutral" site so they can finish game 5: Atlanta.
Bud Selig makes George Bush look smart. What an idiot.
Posted by: Chuck in 'bama | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:39 PM
well,
fuck.
Posted by: Hummer | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:39 PM
Just one more day of me not being productive at work...
Posted by: Gaze | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:45 PM
@AZTerror: i think you and me could provide a ton of floor-space, couches, backyard hammocks, you name it, if the game got move here. not bloody likely, but it's the only thing making me smile today. im so spent emotionally.
Posted by: MPR529 | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:48 PM
We actually got a snow flurry down here in Knoxville this morning. The Phillies will win the Series - hell must be freezing over!!
Posted by: JimMc | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:49 PM
Yup, 8:37 start
Posted by: Bryan | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:49 PM
Philadelphia, you can actually get some sleep tonight. Might be a very lonely town around 11PM
Posted by: Carl P | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:52 PM
Is there any way we could orchestrate some type of "Taco Toss" at the Fox Headquarters on 4th Street? There's nothing I'd like to see more on the evening news than ground beef mortar fire coming from every angle on Market Street.
Posted by: Steve-O | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:52 PM
Well it looks like I'll be watching th Fly Guys play tonight.
Posted by: HLH | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:53 PM
HAA!!!!
Posted by: MPR529 | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Seriously, if Obama is ANY sort of sports fan and is really trying to win Pennsylvania, he'll pull the ad. We have to wait an extra 15 minutes for this game to watch him talk? About the same shit we've been hearing for 18 months? And for those of us at the game, we just have to sit there, potentially in the snow, and wait? You aren't going to gain any voters by running that ad (honestly, at this point, who is undecided?!?), but I'm sure you could piss some off and lose their vote (and yes, I realize this is a ridiculous thing to base your vote on, but people vote for really stupid reasons). Come on, pull the ad, this is insane.
And I'm an Obama supporter!
Posted by: teddy | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:01 PM
BTW....maddon has been complaining about our fans? He said that his family has been taking verbal abuse and someone even threw a couple of mustard paks at his granddaughter. Doesn't he know making comments like this is just fueling the fire?
Posted by: HLH | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:04 PM
anyone planning on going to eagles/seattle is now stuck in some major league limbo
Posted by: theKrisheim | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:06 PM
All I hope for is:
1) Enough warning I can get back to the park for Game 5, whenever that may be.
2) A win in Game 5
3) When Bud "I'm a blubbering dipshit" Selig brings out that trophy we booing the living fuck out of his ass. I'm surprised he hasn't tried a neutral site, say, hmm, Milwaukee?
Posted by: MSM | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:08 PM
@thekrish: that'd be me.
Posted by: Matt P | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:09 PM
Teddy, I don't think the game is starting much later at all. They say first pitch at 8:37, and the rest of the games it's been between 8:29-35.
Dude has to play his ad sometime, there's only a week left. Besides, doesn't look like he has to do much anymore to win PA/this election.
Posted by: Kulp | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:09 PM
@HLH
What? she had a soft pretzel...people were just trying to help her season it properly! I don't see any malice in that act!
Posted by: AZTerror | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:10 PM
Bud Selig doesn't have the cahones to award the Phillies the trophy if they win in Philly on the field. He'll give it to them in the clubhouse...cause he knows they would "open the salad bar" on his ass!
Posted by: AZTerror | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:12 PM
The Phillies site has the probable pitchers as balfour and Hamels! Does that mean what I think it does or is it just wishful thinking?
Posted by: HLH | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:13 PM
@HLH:
I think that's just continued over from last night. Those are technically still the pitchers in the game at this point.
Posted by: MSM | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:18 PM
They won't name the pitcher until they see how the bottom of the 6th goes...if they score then proceed as usual with shut down bullpen. If it's still tied, then you think about throwing Myers and bump everyone up a start, or throw Happ for some lefty-age.
Posted by: AZTerror | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:20 PM
@ HLH
Nah, those are just the pitchers who are still in the game right now. In fact, if the Phillies score in the bottom half of the sixth, Hamels would still be in line for the win because he would still be the pitcher of record.
But I believe we will bring in Chad Durbin for the 7th regardless of what happens.
I also believe the Phils should send Jenkins to the plate in case we are burning a pinch hitter. Maddon said he is bringing out Balfour. So if Maddon sticks with Balfour, you have a good fastball hitter against a fireballer. If Maddon yanks Balfour in favor of Price, then you only burn Jenkins as opposed to Dobbs or Stairs.
Then you come back with Coste in place of Jenkins once Price is announced. It most likely won't be Brunlett because it is too early for the defensive replacement and Burrell is due up sixth this inning, so he would most likely bat in a good sixth or definitely seventh.
Posted by: DLo34 | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:21 PM
Grrrrrr ...
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/621/budtt2.jpg
Posted by: G-Town Dave | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:24 PM
This series has been so bumbled and fumbled, it's making the 2002 tied All-Star game look like the highlight of Bud Selig's tenure. Good lord. As a fan of neither team but just someone who wants to watch a good series, it's still painful.
Poor Major League Baseball. Just look at the other major sports championship games/series over the past year...
http://nojoshin.blogspot.com/2008/10/fall-anything-but-classic.html
Posted by: No Joshin | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:34 PM
Okay. Now we know when. We know where. Now let's fucking get out there and finishing this goddamn thing. Us want this to be over.
Posted by: Decoy | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:42 PM
so I work at ASU. I figured I'd hit the MU (food court) to eat and check out some young, coed titties.
as i walk in the MU I hear 'We Are The Champions' playing on the radio.
No amount of heaving bosoms in the world could've gotten me to stay in that bulding and hear that song. not today. not fucking today.
Posted by: MPR529 | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:55 PM
Should it be necessary, Hamels will throw Game 7. I'm convinced.
Of course, I hope it doesn't get that far.
Posted by: Loqiel | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:59 PM
@ MPR529
I know the feeling man, anytime I hear that song at a bar I walk outside until it is over.
Posted by: DLo34 | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 02:59 PM
bit refreshing, i thought i was the only one who hated that song. i refuse to even acknlowledge that song until its true. then it goes from most hated to most loved.
Posted by: will | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 03:13 PM
Three hour delays at Phila. Intrenational Airport because of existing weather conditions and Selig thought this game could be resumed. I'm thinking that the airport has better people at it than MLB has at theirs. Just xld the game and go back at it when the weather is more accomodating for both players and fans.It's just ridiculous how much thought had to be used before a decision was made.
Posted by: Pop Pop Glasses | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 03:21 PM
Just think how AWESOME this video yearbook is going to be. I'm still thinking positive.
Posted by: db | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 03:37 PM
when the video yearbook is about 10 minutes from the end, the producers should put a 3 day delay on the DVD.
Posted by: MPR529 | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 03:42 PM
MPR529: They should just spend 30 minutes of the video showing Philly fans doing other assorted activities while in the suspended animation we are all living in. Videographers are more than welcome to come over tonight and film me doing such exciting things as playing Fable 2 and going to sleep at 9.
Posted by: Steve | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 03:51 PM