Make It Rain

The thing I love about baseball is that you never ever know what the hell is going to happen. It seems like such a monotonous sport: A dude throws the ball 150 times and sometimes the other dude swings and every once in awhile someone gets to run around the bases. How can something that seems so boring on the surface present us with so much drama?

Up until Monday night, the Rays/Phillies World Series wasn't really worth watching. Ever sice Game 5 of the ALCS, the Rays have looked more like the Kevin Stocker-led Devil Rays of old than the Longoria/Upton Long Ball Experience that we've seen over the last month. The Phillies are one of those east coast teams that no one really cares about unless they're from Philly. Don't get me wrong, I respect Philly fans and I think they deserve a championship, but the team doesn't have the personality and mass appeal of the who-are-these-kids-with-mohawks Rays.

So with the Phillies ahead in the series 3-1 and Phillies ace Cole Hamels on the mound, Rupert Murdoch made a call to his homey Zeus. Before you could say November sweeps, Fox was airing a mess of a game in Philly.

The craziest part about the whole situation was that the powers that be (Bud Selig and both managers) knew what weather was coming and that the game would go nine innings, even if it took multiple days. The result was the sport's first ever suspended World Series game and a wholly enjoyable train wreck.

Tonight they will finish the game (I assume), and Fox will air roughly one hour of baseball after the thirty-minute time slot purchased by Barack Obama. It would be safe to say that the ratings for tonight's game innings will be higher than the portion aired on Monday. This never-before-seen situation has not only given semi-fans a reason to watch the game, but it has also given the media a couple of days to hype up the drama surrounding what will be the pivotal game of the Fall Classic.