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Commish would not have allowed Phils to get rain-shortened win
PHILADELPHIA -- Bud Selig was determined there wouldn't be a rain-shortened World Series game on his watch.
Selig met in the umpires' room with officials of both teams an hour before the start of Game 5 on Monday night and told them no matter how long it took, the game would not be cut short.
"I was not going to allow that to happen," he said, clutching a rule book in his left hand.
When the Phillies and Rays were suspended with the score 2-2 after 5? innings Monday night, Selig explained that the game would be played to completion -- even if there was the longest rain delay in history.
"I have to use my judgment," he said. "The game would have been in a rain delay until weather conditions allowed us to continue. And that might have been 24 hours or 48 hours or who knows?"
While regular-season games can end after the trailing team has made 15 outs, there has never been a shortened postseason game. Selig did not want a situation where the Phillies, who lead the Series three games to one, could have been ahead, and then won the World Series when the game was called several hours later without completing it.
"It's not a way to end a World Series," he said. "I'm on very solid ground."
Selig and a gaggle of officials met before the game to go over what would happen. The meeting included Phillies general manager Pat Gillick, Rays executive vice president Andrew Friedman, the managers of both teams, MLB chief operating officer Bob DuPuy and other top officials from the commissioner's office.
"Both Andrew and myself, we wanted to make sure that if this game was to be played, we wanted it to play to the conclusion," Gillick said. "I wanted it played fairly, both sides, Tampa Bay and ourselves. We were aware that the commissioner could, even with the score not tied, could continue this game later and call a rain delay until the proper conditions did exist."
Tampa Bay agreed with the decision.
"There was significant discussion before the game and before Saturday's game about the conditions," Rays president Matt Silverman said, referring to Game 3 whose start was delayed 91 minutes. "The decision was made ... the game wouldn't end without playing the full nine innings."
As rain intensified in the middle innings, umpires had the grounds crew put drying material on the infield dirt, the mound and the plate.
"The first thing we look for is the integrity of the mound and secondly the integrity of the batter's box. And those were maintained throughout," crew chief Tim Welke said.
Selig went downstairs in the fourth inning as puddles started to form in the infield. He said he "was getting very nervous." Selig and his aides met in the fifth inning with Welke and first-base umpire Tim Tschida. Then Selig sat with groundskeeper Mike Boekholder.
Entire article: ESPN - Bud Selig would not have allowed rain-shortened Philadelphia Phillies win
PHILADELPHIA -- Bud Selig was determined there wouldn't be a rain-shortened World Series game on his watch.
Selig met in the umpires' room with officials of both teams an hour before the start of Game 5 on Monday night and told them no matter how long it took, the game would not be cut short.
"I was not going to allow that to happen," he said, clutching a rule book in his left hand.
When the Phillies and Rays were suspended with the score 2-2 after 5? innings Monday night, Selig explained that the game would be played to completion -- even if there was the longest rain delay in history.
"I have to use my judgment," he said. "The game would have been in a rain delay until weather conditions allowed us to continue. And that might have been 24 hours or 48 hours or who knows?"
While regular-season games can end after the trailing team has made 15 outs, there has never been a shortened postseason game. Selig did not want a situation where the Phillies, who lead the Series three games to one, could have been ahead, and then won the World Series when the game was called several hours later without completing it.
"It's not a way to end a World Series," he said. "I'm on very solid ground."
Selig and a gaggle of officials met before the game to go over what would happen. The meeting included Phillies general manager Pat Gillick, Rays executive vice president Andrew Friedman, the managers of both teams, MLB chief operating officer Bob DuPuy and other top officials from the commissioner's office.
"Both Andrew and myself, we wanted to make sure that if this game was to be played, we wanted it to play to the conclusion," Gillick said. "I wanted it played fairly, both sides, Tampa Bay and ourselves. We were aware that the commissioner could, even with the score not tied, could continue this game later and call a rain delay until the proper conditions did exist."
Tampa Bay agreed with the decision.
"There was significant discussion before the game and before Saturday's game about the conditions," Rays president Matt Silverman said, referring to Game 3 whose start was delayed 91 minutes. "The decision was made ... the game wouldn't end without playing the full nine innings."
As rain intensified in the middle innings, umpires had the grounds crew put drying material on the infield dirt, the mound and the plate.
"The first thing we look for is the integrity of the mound and secondly the integrity of the batter's box. And those were maintained throughout," crew chief Tim Welke said.
Selig went downstairs in the fourth inning as puddles started to form in the infield. He said he "was getting very nervous." Selig and his aides met in the fifth inning with Welke and first-base umpire Tim Tschida. Then Selig sat with groundskeeper Mike Boekholder.
Entire article: ESPN - Bud Selig would not have allowed rain-shortened Philadelphia Phillies win
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OSUsushichic
Fired up! Ready to go!
Fuckity fuck. Now my future in-laws in Philly won't be able to shut up about this. 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF
Legend
ND's Brad Lidge gets the final strikeout to win it for the Phillies....
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Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
OSUsushichic;1309902; said:Fuckity fuck. Now my future in-laws in Philly won't be able to shut up about this.
don't get married.
problem solved
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JXC
17-4 since 2001
Phillies fans are big sore winners. When your owner thanks the Rays, and you booooooo. Booooing the Rays? You just beat them! The Rays had an amazing season. Phillies fans don't deserve this at all. Rude, disgusting, and they don't respect the game. Anybody who respects baseball would applaud the story of the Rays. They really gave it to Selig too. Selig was put in a horrible situation with the rain, and he did the best he could. But you just won the World Series...why are you booing? And I know it's Philly. And that's all they do is booo. But that's unreal. It isn't the Yankees or the Sox. ITS THE RAYS! Booooing the Rays?????? Worst fans in sports.
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OCBucksFan
I won a math debate
I think the Phillies should send me something to thank me, by betting on the Rays every game of the series I pretty much eliminated them from any chance of winning the world series. So I am expecting a world series ring at the beginning of next season.
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billmac91
Head Coach
worst World Series ever? Not even b/c it was Phillies v. Rays, but b/c the games sucked, the winning game was split amongst 3 days, and the umpires got every close call wrong.
I really didn't care who won the series....kind of rooted for the Rays, but did anyone else notice how different the strike zone was for the Philles vs. the Rays? I think I heard Joe Buck mention it a few times, but he didn't realy hammer it home. Just a bad series...
I really didn't care who won the series....kind of rooted for the Rays, but did anyone else notice how different the strike zone was for the Philles vs. the Rays? I think I heard Joe Buck mention it a few times, but he didn't realy hammer it home. Just a bad series...
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billmac91;1310124; said:
To me it was just boring... No marquee hitter (Ryan Howard, ok..) that has that game changing ability, no absolutely lights out pitching we would have seen from the likes of Boston or Anaheim, no big time stories (Rays turnaround was remarkable but how awesome would LA-Boston have been?).. I don't know. I watched every game, but it was quite boring. I found myself changing the channel every chance I got.
On a positive note, TWC customers have NBC back!
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billmac91;1310124; said:
Not even close... but then again I was hoping for a short world series to win my vbet. And since my vbet won this was the BEST world series ever
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Piney;1310239; said:Not even close... but then again I was hoping for a short world series to win my vbet. And since my vbet won this was the BEST world series ever
I'm glad it ended quick also... Hard to stay excited when teams in the World Series can play up to 170+ games... I'm all for a shortened season.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MufTb-D4AcE]YouTube - Rays fan hit in the head by bottle. World Series 08[/ame]
There is another video where a group of idiots got on top of one of those plastic bus kiosks and the thing collapses......absolutely worth the price of admission
And finally, our team won so let's go break some shit!!!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixRJSJY44eI]YouTube - More Stupid Phillies Behavior[/ame]
There is another video where a group of idiots got on top of one of those plastic bus kiosks and the thing collapses......absolutely worth the price of admission
And finally, our team won so let's go break some shit!!!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixRJSJY44eI]YouTube - More Stupid Phillies Behavior[/ame]
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