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The Devil’s Precipitation Is Upon Us

So after last night’s debacle at the Bank, I was sitting here in my office just north of Philadelphia wondering how I am going to manage a World Series pseudo-game tonight and the 7:30AM conference call tomorrow morning I just got conscripted into.

Then I looked outside and noticed that it is FUCKING SNOWING. Like, seriously snowing.

The weather forecast – which is a wondrous, truly miraculous thing, god I’m glad they invented it after the top of the sixth inning last night – indicates that it is going to continue to snow and rain until sometime tomorrow afternoon.

I gotta tell you, sports fans, baseball tonight seems an unlikely prospect. I figure that has to help the Phillies; the longer the game gets delayed the more likely it becomes that should futher games be necessary Cole Hamels will pitch on full rest.

To paraphrase what us Phillies Pholk had been saying all day yesterday: 1/3 more, my friends. 1/3 more.

I CAN HAZ MALE SEX ORGANZ?

My name is Bud Selig and just in case you weren’t aware, I am not a man. I am, in fact, a spineless, dickless fuckbag.

Yeah, I know the forecast was for rain until tomorrow afternoon. Yeah, I know the field went from muddy to completely, stupidly, dangerously unplayable between the fifth and sixth innings. Yeah, I know the game should have been called after the fifth inning. I don’t care. Why? Because I’m a spineless, dickless fuckbag.

I know the Phillies don’t want to win a World Series that way. I know the Rays sure don’t want to lose one that way. But you know what I’m sure they DO want? I am goddamn sure all the way down to my gaping, dripping vagina that Charlie Manuel and Joe Maddon want to go out there in 40 degree weather and 20MPH winds and play in an infield that is fucking underwater for Chrissakes and risk their players getting hurt or getting sick. I am 100% sure they’d rather do that. It’s one of those things you just know deep in your spineless, dickless fuckbag bones.

I mean, if you were in my position and you had this choice, you’re telling me you wouldn’t wait until the conditions got so bad that you couldn’t actually play baseball and let the Rays tie it up before you called the game? What, do you have a cock or something? Jesus Christ in a handcart, Cole Hamels had only thrown 67 pitches and given up one run in 6 innings! I couldn’t let that shit stand. And did you see that double play from Utley? Come on. The way their defense was going there was no WAY the Phillies fucked this one up. Even a spineless, dickless fuckbag like me could see that.

No, no, it’s far better to wipe out Hamels’ great pitching effort and wait until the Rays used the hideously unfair conditions to tie the game, and then not give the Phillies the same opportunity to abuse the unplayable field and my lack of any discernible guts or integrity or male genitalia. I mean, what am I supposed to do? It’s not my fault if the “rain delay” lasts 19 hours. Yeah, I had the Weather Channel and CNN and Fox News and the National Weather Service and local news radio and the 143,000,000 websites that provide hour-by-hour forecasts telling there was no possible way in this or any other parallel universe that we could finish this game tonight, but 1-day weather forecasts are wrong, like, 4% of the time. I’m just a simple spineless, dickless fuckbag trying to incompetently run a thoroughly corrupt sports league.

Am I bitter about the Phillies beating the Brewers? What? How can you even ask me that? No. Of course not. What a silly question. Now can someone line up all the Phillies fans who’ve been waiting 28 years for a World Series? I want to make sure I strap on my 14″ curare-spike stainless steel dildo and fuck every one of them in the ass before I go back to my hotel room.

Somewhere Bud Selig is Smiling Big

Bud Selig must be smiling like a Cheshire cat right now. For the first time in MLB television history, 5 of the top 7 media markets have teams playing in the World Series.

With New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Boston taking part along with Cleveland (the 14th largest U.S. market), Phoenix (16) and Denver (18), the outlook is bright for television networks.

With this in mind, no wonder ESPN has been so stingy with the TBS name dropping this past week. Sure we know they’re pissed they didn’t get the rights and couldn’t get in on the all-star game, but they had no idea that they would be getting no slice of this possibly monumentally gigantic pie. That’s gotta burn them twice as much.

“This postseason, with the teams involved we have, is an absolute dream for a network.”
Turner Sports President David Levy told USA Today.

Damn right it is a dream…except for ESPN. The worst thing that can happen now for everyone not the WWL is that the Rockies play the Indians for the championship…and hell hasn’t frozen over yet so I think they’re pretty safe. Is it cold in here?

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Poor Poor Mr. Met

If anyone was watching Conan O’brien this week, he had “exclusive footage” of Mr. Met who was so despondent from the Mets failure to hold their 8 game lead that he was driven to attempt suicide. Attempt is the key word…Mr. Met couldn’t even do that successfully. Luckily, the Philly Phanatic was there to finish him off for good. Hilarious, watch, laugh, cry, laugh again.

Phillies Playoff Bukkake

The Phillies beat the Nationals tonight 6-1 and are in the playoffs in quite dramatic fashion thanks to the massive collapse of the New York Mets. The only way to celebrate this monumental feat? Champagne Bukkake of course.

Hellz yea. Keep it gangsta Philadelphia.