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It Will Be Sunny in Philadelphia for Tonight's World Series Game (It Won't Rain, Anyway)

Oct 25, 2008 – 1:45 PM
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Will Brinson

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Sunny might be a stretch for Philadelphia's forecast tonight (especially, you know, since the sun won't be up). But the good news for everyone involved is that the rain which was originally predicted for Philly tonight is probably going to hold off.

This is awesome for those of us who like to watch baseball on Saturday nights. And Phillies fans. But probably not Fox executives.

Network honchos are probably upset because the ratings for weeknights are always higher than on weekends -- although even bothering to throw a game on Sunday seems kind of futile, no?

Philly fans are taking the opposite stance though because, as Alper mentioned earlier, a delay would have made things spicy for Charlie Manuel in terms of when to start Cole Hamels. Obviously, the Phils want to use him three times in this series, if possible. But in order to do that, he has to pitch in Game 3 or 4 on Sunday, and running him out there with the series standing 1-1 is a lot less appealing than knowing -- based on the outcome of tonight's game -- whether using him on Sunday is the smart play or not.

But, even though it's going to be cloudy, windy, cold and generally pretty miserable (or: "totally different than Tampa"), it's not likely going to rain. And that means we get Game 3 tonight as planned.
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