Phillies/Rays World Series Game 2 Open Thread

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Wild pitch! Both runners advance to scoring position.

"Obviously with no one on, that's a harmless wild pitch." - Captain Obvious McCarver

But Navarro hits one with some spin up the gap as well and Chase Utley can't make the diving grab and it's a base hit.

Baldelli strikes ou.....wait, no swing called, it was a check swing and that's a bad call. ???

Checkgate, JuT? ;-)

Wait, I think the umpire called Baldelli out, and I think the 1B umpire overruled him.

Chase Utley, can he save the inning?

Oh yeah, the game. Rays got back to back pop-up outs, and Crawford just made it a trifecta. Rays 3-0 after 3 innings.

So it counts as a hit and not an error, and the Phillies have Greg Dobbs up at bat.

Navarro is 2-2!!! Up the middle for another base hit, Rocco up next with runners at 2nd and 1st with nobody out.

Of course Bartlett is out, Baldelli moves to 2nd with 2 outs and Iwamura at bat.

Jayson Werth gets ready to strike out. Or not, he actually becomes useful for a change in this game and gets a base hit to move Rollins to 2nd.....in other words, in scoring position. So time to blow it again!

Broken bat ground ball, Myers can't get to it, Utley can and makes the throw in time to end the inning.

I HATE Tim McCarver too... Well, Hate is a strong word I suppose, for a pompous, ignorant, egotistical, overblown with hot and poison-gaseoused talking-head. Other than that he's fine! Why give him the power of hating him.

On those Backstreet Boys... I never liked em... Never disliked them either. Never listened to them, for that matter. But, I DO think the commentary around the country has been a bit unfair, in a way.

Artistically, musically, dramatically, what they did with a song was borderline-genious.

HOWEVER: You just can't change the structure, rhythm, repeated sentences, and otherwise deconstruct and build-anew your National Anthem as backstar boys see-fit. It's pretty-much sacrilege.

I'm Canadian, by the way. Our 'O Canada' is too plain, I think, for anything hot like that to be built on top of it. Your anthem is much richer, lyrically, musically, dramatically.

So these boys have been chastened, but it's a shame for the country and baseball, really. That is because there is NO SUCH THING AS BAD PUBLICITY in show business. I was suspicious of that line at one time, but watching the Madonnas, Brittanys, Hiltons and others with all their hootin's over the last few years has convinced me otherwise.

David Price shows his mental toughness and this series is even at 1-1 piece.

There will be no post-game from me tonight. My bed is calling my name.

But WE ARE using the DH for now, and strategically, the more you make it work for you the greater chances the team will win. it works better with some power and in the SIX spot... no higher. that's what the Rays done did...