The Storm Cloud Over This City

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The Sports World and Mother Nature are in kuh-hoots to screw my beloved city of Philadephia.  I don’t understand what this city ever did to deserve it.  Philadelphia fans don’t lack for love-for-their-team or even a forgetful-love that loves year-after-year despite disappointment-after-disappointment.  What’s absolutely bewildering is the fact that Philadelphia teams aren’t actually bad, in fact, they’re actually pretty darn good.  But it’s as if the Major Sports Commissioners have conspired to screw this city.

Case-in-point: Game 5 of the 2008 World Series.  Philadelphia is shoe-in to win the World Series with Cole Hamels on the mound… like a near-actually-guarantee to pitch lights out to the Tampa Bay Rays, and with Philadelphia bats catching fire and ready to launch this city into the stratosphere — literally… the craziness that people would be exhibiting would be like that of people so oxygen-deprived… they’re in the stratosphere.

But baseball commish, Bud Selig, in his infinite wisdom 1. allowed the game to start when the conditions were clearly horrendous, 2. allowed the game to play UNTIL the Rays tied the game when FOX cameras had panned to the oceans of puddles on the field of play about 10,000 times beginning in the fourth inning, and 3. not allowing both teams to finish the game in conditions that were clearly not going to be much different in the ninth inning than they were in the sixth.  Bud Selig single-handedly took the momentum from the Phillies’ and let it be Gone with the Wind.

One tidbit I found out this morning that just makes it all the worse: it wasn’t raining in New York City last night.  A.k.a. the storm cloud was only over Philadelphia.

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