Game Five of the 2008 World Series is on, and the conditions are an absolute mockery of common sense and good judgement. It is 40 degrees and raining steadily in Philadelphia, and, at any other time, there is no way in heck this game would be played.
I know about the influence of FOX and their barrells of network cash, but it is a damn shame that baseball's show piece, the World Series, is allowed to be made into a bad, silly, wet joke like this.
It's a disgrace, and baseball's decision makers should be ashamed of themselves.
" It is 40 degrees and raining steadily in Philadelphia, and, at any other time, there is no way in heck this game would be played."
ReplyDeleteFootball players would not wimp out in that weather, though. Cue up George Carlin's football vs baseball rant.
Well, true.
ReplyDeleteBut defense, in baseball, requires a precision that football does not. It's not a true reflection of the skill of the two teams to play in weather like that.
I don't buy that, really. Baseball is steeped in tradition (instead of Carlin now, cue up James Earl Jone's soliloquey from "Field of Dreams"). I think the "don't play in the rain" thing is just an old tradition.
ReplyDeleteWell, played in a pouring rain, football certainly isn't the same game. And there isn't any question that baseball, in days gone by, couldn't dream of playing on a wet field, because conditions would quickly become impossible.
ReplyDeleteBut pitching and playing defense in baseball involves a precision that disappears utterly in the rain-whereas you can still tackle in the rain.