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Oct
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John Baer: Just one column today, and it’s a good one. (How often does this happen?!) Baer writes about how Republicans are explaining Obama’s loss not by admitting they nominated such a bad candidate a black dude is going to win the presidency fairly easily but by saying the media is “in the tank” for Obama.
Here’s my favorite part:
I took the “tanking” issue to Keith Woods, dean of faculty at the respected Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla., a 33-year-old school dedicated to improving journalism.
“I don’t agree,” he told me, likening perceived Obama bias to the reaction to media coverage of child disappearances, in that some get intensive coverage and most get none.
Ha, ha, yes, that’s a great comparison, because it’s always black children with names like “Barack” who get the most intensive coverage.
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dmac | 8:55 AM | 0 Comments
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Oct
28
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Okay, so the game is still postponed and it’s snowing in the suburbs (out in front of the Courier building, apparently, as Philly EDGE shows us above).
Some are saying this is a bad omen. Pfft. I disagree. This is just the kind of weather you get when hell starts to freeze over. Phillies win Game 5 by a couple of runs whenever it starts up again (sometime next April).
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dmac | 1:24 PM | 3 Comments
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Oct
28
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Somebody called in to Ron & Fez and said that WIP said the game will not be played tonight. Ron & Fez is a good name for a cartoon, but apparently it’s a radio show. Anyway, now you have this information fourth- or fifth-hand here, so you know it’s accurate.
Also a good bet for why the game won’t be played tonight: Common sense.
Update: Hey, look, here’s some more confirmation. [via Walkoff Walk]
Update 2: Official MLB press release, as if you needed any more confirmation.
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dmac | 12:52 PM | 2 Comments
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Oct
28
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 Hey, look, if you bet on the Phillies you actually won the game, 2-1!
The game was suspended because of rain in the middle of the sixth inning with the score tied 2-2. The Rays had tied it in the top of the sixth when Carlos Pena’s two-out single scored B.J. Upton. [...] However, even though the suspended game is scheduled to be completed today, the betting result is final.
According to Nevada gaming rules — often referred to as “house rules” — the final score of an official game is determined by reverting to the last completed inning. The Phillies led 2-1 after the fifth.
Las Vegas sports books are paying off Game 5 side bets on Philadelphia, which was about a minus-170 favorite. Wagers on totals and run-line bets are being refunded because rules stipulate that at least 81/2 innings must be played.
“We’re just following the regular baseball rules. This is a very common rule,” Las Vegas Hilton sports book director Jay Kornegay said. “We can’t make exceptions.
“There was no special disclaimer for World Series games, or any playoff games for that matter, that your bet would continue if the game was suspended. It’s one of those unfortunate misunderstood rules of baseball betting.”
Kornegay expects some bettors to be confused about the rules, but he said there should be no controversy.
It’s really awesome that Vegas has already decided there is no controversy. (They’re right, but whatever.) Anyway, awwright Phillies, you won the World Series for gamblers in Vegas!!
Sports books pay as if Phillies won [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
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dmac | 11:38 AM | 5 Comments
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Oct
28
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Boy, politicians sure are greedy!
Elmer Smith: Oh, yeah, there are a couple of wars the next president will inherit, I wonder if either of them has a plan for what to do in them.
Fatimah Ali: It’s Fatimah! She says that John McCain forgot a name mid-sentence, and so he shouldn’t be president of the United States. Eh, whatever.
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dmac | 9:50 AM | 0 Comments
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Oct
28
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 So who had this in their pool? You know, the pool where you came up with the most Philadelphia way for the Phillies to lose. The Phillies might only be tied with the Rays in the middle of the 6th inning, but it sure doesn’t feel right.
The collective mood of Philadelphia changed when the Rays tied the game while playing a half-inning that certainly never should have been played (due to, you know, the driving rain and huge puddled on the ground). It changed when Joe Buck and Tim McCarver complained about how unfair it was to the Rays to play in this driving rain, since they steal bases; then the rain, of course, helped the Rays score the tying run. It changed when everyone realized they weren’t clinching the World Series Monday night.
Instead of Cole Hamels pitching another inning or two and handing it off to the bullpen, we now wait. Chances are they won’t play tonight and will play the final 3 1/2 innings on Wednesday, simply because of how disgusting it is outside right now. (39 degrees? Seriously?) Right now everyone in Philadelphia is kind of too shocked to figure out how to deal with it.
Conlin is good today, go have a perusal. For now there’s only one way I can describe this:
Ugh.
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dmac | 9:23 AM | 1 Comment
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Oct
27
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You have to be kidding me. The game is suspended, Bud Selig has told us. Fox 29 is getting its biggest audience ever and the reports are pretty hilarious (e.g. drunk people being interviewed, live!).
Some umpire just said “the velocity of the rain.” I can’t really take this. More to come but right now I need to figure out how to recover from being hit by a train tonight.
Somehow, Bud Selig is Behind All This Rain Nonsense [Walkoff Walk]
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dmac | 11:13 PM | 4 Comments
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Oct
27
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Hey, know what Key to the Game you missed was: Prevent Zeus from sending rain down upon Philadelphia. The worst part about this is I don’t even know how to complain about this. What the hell should they do? Ugh.
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dmac | 10:50 PM | 1 Comment
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