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Your World Series Game 4 Cluster Bomb

Oct 27, 2008, 1:55 PM UTC

You saw the game. You don’t need me to tell you

.â†µSo here’s some stuff on the peripherals that you may not have seen asâ†µyou attempt to understand how the police department will keep Philly from burning to the ground tonight.
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Throw a party and invite those earflaps on down, Mr. Maddon.

The last two games, the Rays skipper has worn that ridiculous hat with the earcovers on the sides. But oddly, he’s yet to flip them down and let them serve their purpose. Tonight, it’s supposed to be in the 40’s with a chance of rain. I predict we’ll see the flaps in all their glory sometime around the 6th inning. â†µ

â†µJayson Werth should expect one in the earhole tonight. I realize Werth has never been there before, so it’s difficult for him to act as such, but you do not round the bases with your finger in the air like you just went all Kirk Gibson on the Rays. Werth hit what you’d refer to in football terms as a garbage time two-run homer in the 8th inning to make it a 10-2 game. I understand it was an exciting moment for the guy, but there’s no reason to show up Dan Wheeler in that situation. â†µ

â†µâ†µOn the other hand, if you’re Joe Blanton and you hit a blast, feel free to go crazy. â†µ

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â†µQuotable: Joe Maddon is. When Phillies fans heckle the Rays manager, he gives it back to them by attacking a man in the one place where it hurts most: His choice of booze: â†µ

â†µâ†µâ‡¥“I was actually giving a guy a hard time for drinking Coors Light in Philadelphia. We went back and forth with that, and I said where’s the Schmidt’s? At least some Rolling Rock. Don’t be going with Coors Light. It’s so unfashionable for a Philly dude. â†µâ‡¥â†µâ‡¥“So I was all over him about that. We had a good time.” â†µâ‡¥

â†µâ†µTo be fair, the Philly fans that Maddon was talking back to had, in the past, gone with the recently discontinued Zima as their gameday beverage of preference. They simply stepped up to the next, least-masculine alcoholic beverage available. â†µ

â†µThese umpires have been really outstanding. If nothing else, the crew’s quota of two horribly blown calls per game has made things more interesting. Last night, this blown tag was just embarrassingly bad:â†µ

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