Game 5: You killed Uncle Freddy? You mutha*%&$*@#!

Commissioner Bud, he of the cancelled World Series and fabled All Star Game tie, added another proverbial feather to his non-proverbial feathered birdman underroos last night. After insisting on beginning Game 5 of the World Series despite what can only be described as hypothermia-inducing conditions forecast for the entire evening, Ol' Bud was finally forced to "suspend" the game in the middle of the sixth inning with the score tied at 2. Suspend the game? Yup, just like frigg'n little league. Nobody wins, everybody loses. NEXT!

No special regulations govern what happens when a World Series game has to be called because of weather. Under what I'll call 'the rules' because that's what they are, as the sixth inning was not completed, the game should revert back to the end of the fifth inning. Five innings is an official game, and with the score 2-1, Philadelphia, according to those pesky rules, the game is over with the Phillies winning, making them the World Series Champions.

To the Phillies enduring credit, they aren't making this argument. Fortunately for Ol' Bud too, because the Phillies would be on ground more solid than the field they were forced to play on last night. I agree it makes perfect sense to require that all World Series games go a full nine innings. It's a rational decision that keeps the best interests of baseball at heart. The problem is that nobody thought of nor planned for it beforehand. What if a World Series game gets rained out? Shouldn't we make this clear before the game starts? These are simple questions that should have been answered minimally 24 hours ago.

One thing you can't do, even in Little League, is make up rules as you go along. Its unfortunate that the weather was so bad last night (and that it hasn't improved at all today). But unfortunate isn't a real problem. Incompetence is.

*and hilarious!