Your World Series Game 2 Cluster Bomb

You saw the game. You don’t need me to tell you what happened. So here’s some stuff on the peripherals that you may not have seen as you attempt to understand what in the hell mitochondrial disorder is.

Goin’ back to Philly. I’ve read this sentiment echoed by many a blogger on these internets, so Enrico at The 700 Level isn’t alone, but here’s what he wrote this morning:

On the bright side, we can leave that amusement park behind us and come play at a real baseball park in Philadelphia. The fans at the Bank for the World Series will bring it like the Rays have never seen.

Yeah, a real ballpark! Stupid Tropicana Field and its 82-foot basepaths and mound that sits seven feet tall. Freakin’ amusement park, that place. How do those fans even call that dump a baseball stadium? It doesn’t even have any history. Unlike The Bank, which is steeped in FOUR WHOLE YEARS of tradition, baby. Oh yeah, Phillies fans are gonna bring it, the likes of which the Rays have never witnessed. Like, literally, they’ve never seen anything like this because none of them have ever been in a World Series. The 700 Level wasn’t talking trash, just stating a fact.

They also go on to bash the Rays cowbells which “suck” and are a “joke.” Because we all know Phillies fans would never, ever need to use props in the postseason to cheer on their team.

Oops.

Carl Crawford is gangster. I noticed this in the ALCS and was reminded of it last night: Crawford’s theme song might be the best in baseball. Every time he comes up to bat, they blast this jam at The Trop:

MIA, “Paper Plans”: The official banger of last winter. It might be a little old, but still, it’s a pretty perfect song for a stroll to the plate.

Quotable: Mike Port, Major League Baseball's vice president for umpiring is. He had this to say on homeplate umpire Kerwin Danley’s pump fake called third strike on Rocco Baldelli:

"It was his intention to go to first base for help on a half-swing that he had as ball four. He just gave a confusing mechanic. But he had called it a ball, and it was ruled no half-swing anyway. So it was just that particular mechanic that caused confusion."

Danley either started to call that thing a strike, or he just has the most dramatic appeal to the first base ump hand signal in the history of baseball. Either way, it was ruled a ball ... thems the breaks.

Phillies fans are festive. ‘Duk at Big League Stew, who is in Florida doing a fabulous job, found this fan, who is not aware that St. Pete is actually in Florida, not Hawaii:

I reckon you get yur ass kicked wearing some crap like that in Philadelphia.

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