Bye-bye to baseball?
I AM excited for tonight’s Game 5 of the World Series. Really. Cole Hamels vs. Scott Kazmir? This could be a lot of fun!!
BUT. As I sit here and wait for one last commercial break (Flomax, Viagra, and DirecTV, oh my!), I must acknowledge with great sadness that this could be the last MLB game I watch this fall. If the Phillies win, that’s it; the fat lady sings and we’re left with no baseball until Spring Training. Sure, I’ll be glad to be rid of Joe Buck (whose broadcasts might be more outright offensive than Joe Morgan’s) and Tim McCarver, but I will miss baseball!
I want to love the World Series, and just get wrapped up in all the action, the pagentry, the dreams coming true (and the corresponding dreams of the losing team getting crushed). Instead, I can’t help but realize the finality of it.
It’s a darn long time from tonight until Opening Day ‘09. I’m praying the Rays can pull out a win tonight (and maybe even 1 or 2 more) so that number can shrink, even if it’s just by a few days.
Go Rays!
UPDATE: I am SO glad the Rays got that one run in before the game finally had to be delayed. The weather in Philly is about as miserable as weather can be; that cold-but-not-freezing rain is indescribably awful. But even that is not as bad as the idea of awarding Philiadelphia the World Series because they happened to be ahead after 5 innings when the rain became too much to play through. Now that Tampa has scored to tie it 2-2, that fear is erased. Awarding the Series on a rain delay call could be one of the biggest scar on Bud Selig’s time as commissioner of baseball.
UPDATE again: They’ve just announced that the game has been suspended, and will resume tomorrow at 8/7 cenral. It’s the first time in World Series history that a game has been suspended. So…kind of an antixlimax for Phils fans, but such is life, right?