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Update from Boob Selig, No Game Tonight -- game 5 of the bizzarro World Series will be played Thursday at 8:37 weather permitting, click












A Perfect Storm has put Game 5 into the most bizarre hold since the 10-day earthquake postponement in 1989. Too bad the imperfect men running Major League Baseball performed like landlubbers trying to sail an America's Cup yacht in a hurricane. Bill Conlin, Philadelphia Daily News

A monsoon suspended game 5 it in the sixth inning with the Phillies and Rays tied at 2. The series will resume whenever weather permits, reportedly by Thursday at the latest.

The storm did provide us with something, it was able to expose MLB as the sham that is is -- having to push these games until 8:30 starts for the sake of TV ratings -- inexcusable. Then calling the game as soon as Selig's butt was covered and the Rays tied the game, was the field really any more unplayable than it had been for the previous 2 innings? If he always knew that the game had to be completed (as Bud contends), the game should have been called in the fourth.

Ahhh, What can you do? The cheese steaks are on ice, Tampa will have new life if they can get this thing down to Florida. At least down there we won't have to worry about sleet, rain and wind at 11:00 at night.

SI Previews game 5.5