Random Post-Series Thoughts

Dear Rays Fans: Welcome

This blog has been pretty hard on the Rays fans throughout the season. Their inability to show up to games, cheer on their team, and to fail to do so throughout the season, even when their team was presenting themselves obviously as a winning team. And now, a semi-heartbreaking World Series loss. Does it hurt, Rays fans? Good, then allow me to officially welcome you to MLB fandom. It's a long and painful relationship, but overall it's worth it, and you have a great team to root for. Glad to welcome you aboard. Now, as apart of your inauguration you need to show up for April games, buy paraphenalia, and have at least half your fan base think one of your star players is a "bum" (I pick Scott Kazmir, but you can choose your favorite)


Scott Van Pelt

On ESPN2 today, Scott Van Pelt made an interesting observation. He made a commercial with Ben Rothturdberger and BOOM - Steelers win a championship. He makes a commercial with the "Boston Three Party" and the Celtics win a championship. He then makes a commercial with Jimmy Rollins and the Phillies win a championship. It's an intersting correlation, but I'm thinking about signing up Petrice Bergeron and Zdeno Chara for a "This Is SportsCenter Commercial"

*I promise to find these videos once I get home


Phillies Celebration

Seemed a little weak to me. Maybe I'm used to the Boston players going nuts a la the Riverdancing Papelbon, but they just seemed to not have the celebration thing down. Did the fans even get champagne sprayed all over them? Just curious. I'm not bashing Phillies fans - I think Philadelphia is one of the great sports towns left in this country (along with Boston and Chicago, with a couple nods to New York, St. Louis, and Seattle [really, fuck the NBA for what they did to the Sonics]), but the celebration wasn't what I expected.


Ratings?

Grasso: "I haven't watched one game of this World Series, I mean, I'm not a hardcore baseball fan, I'm a Sox fan. But this thing is so weird that I'm going to watch it. I mean it's only like two innings right?"

Well it was 3 innings, but I wonder how this snafu effected the ratings. We'll have more on that tomorrow or Friday. But something tells me this wacky situation will have the ratings for this third-of-a-game much higher than any of the other games. But we'll see, and get those numbers to you later.


My last night in Chicago so tomorrow (that would be Thursday) at 9:00 PM:



Written by Kyle "Dropkick" Baxter