Utterly hysterical.<\/p>\n
Wanting to finish the damn Series, which has abysmal ratings, being fought between a secondary market team and one so far from the mainstream that it can’t even sell out its home games, Major League Baseball elected to play the game tonight, even though the forecast was…let’s just say less than ideal.<\/p>\n
Who cares?\u00c2\u00a0 The Rays’ bats were cold.\u00c2\u00a0 Philadelphia was leading.\u00c2\u00a0 One final game and Fox can go back to its regular programming, stop losing money on this fiasco and book some real revenue.<\/p>\n
And it was all fine and dandy until the Phillies were ahead in the bottom of the fifth.\u00c2\u00a0 Those who grew up playing Little League, who are still flummoxed by soccer, know that it’s now an official game.\u00c2\u00a0 Yup, the baseball season, after 162 regular season games, and three rounds of playoffs, is going to limp to a finish.\u00c2\u00a0 Deservedly so for a sport that isn’t interested in the young, but only the oldsters, who are willing to overpay to attend and stay up way past their bedtime, until the wee hours of the morning, to see who wins these games played in near-winter weather.\u00c2\u00a0 (Isn’t this how the music business got in trouble?\u00c2\u00a0 Only caring about the oldsters who would overpay for CDs, not the youngsters who wanted files?)<\/p>\n
But the weasels at MLB couldn’t let this happen.\u00c2\u00a0 They’d be laughingstocks.\u00c2\u00a0 So rather than call the game, and the Series, they continued to play on.<\/p>\n
You know how you love to watch football in the snow?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what it was like, watching baseball being played in the rain.\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, it was in the thirties, maybe it was just ABOUT to snow!\u00c2\u00a0 The players were slipping and a sliding, like some weasels on the run (how well do you know Dylan’s output, do you catch the "One More Weekend" reference?)<\/p>\n
Anyway, despite being ahead, despite playing so well, the ball glanced off the Phillies’ shortstop’s glove for a hit.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a hit if it’s dry, but Fall Classic rules are different, just like those idiotic ones established to cope with St. Petersburg’s "unhittable" dome.<\/p>\n
The Rays end up scoring, and THEN the baseball fat cats halt the game.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Because now that it’s tied, the game isn’t over, it will have to be finished tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Or whenever the skies clear, which could be APRIL!<\/p>\n
If the Rays come back from their 3-1 deficit and end up winning the Series, I hope the Phillies protest.\u00c2\u00a0 Ask for a complete do-over.\u00c2\u00a0 But what did Dick Benjamin say in "Goodbye Columbus"?\u00c2\u00a0 NO DO-OVERS?<\/p>\n
How are we supposed to take our institutions seriously?<\/p>\n
Chris Rock said his father told him the only way to beat a white man was to knock him out.\u00c2\u00a0 That even if Barack Obama gets the most votes, they’re gonna deny him victory, telling him votes no longer count in elections.\u00c2\u00a0 When it’s all about money, when morality and doing the right thing are out the window, is it any surprise we’ve got a meltdown on Wall Street?<\/p>\n
Having given up on baseball long ago, when George Steinbrenner used his money to stack the deck, I’m laughing from the sidelines, just like George Carlin did.\u00c2\u00a0 He said being born was getting a ticket to the freak show, to set up a chair and enjoy the movie.\u00c2\u00a0 If only George were here now, to riff on this insanity.\u00c2\u00a0 How the legendary "pastoral" game has been hijacked by the same interests, the same mentality, that stole a Presidential election.<\/p>\n
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