Oh, The Rain Falls Hard On A Humdrum Town, This Town Has Dragged You Down

I want to be the best man at Bud Selig’s impending marriage to Carlos Pena. There’s not really much else to add to the game-delay commentary. It’s a very, very fortuitous thing that Major League Baseball changed the rules (as I heard Joe Buck explain) last season to allow for a weather-induced delay-of-game in an official, tie game not to become a rainout, as a rainout-induced World Championship is — we can all agree — bullshit. Why the umps didn’t just delay the game before it was official, as the weather began to take a turn for the worse, is unclear, and probably a case of bad judgment. Pena’s RBI single, scoring B.J. Upton, to tie the game at 2 in the sixth just saved Bud Selig from the final nail in his reputational coffin.

A Philadelphia-reared friend’s Twitter currently reads "This. Just. Isn’t. Fair." But at least the delay means that the Phillies dodged an asterisk. They’re a better team — and Philadelphia is a better city — than that. And it’s still your series to lose. I’m getting over a cold and going to bed. Go record that freestyle now.