20.50

Jeter just scored on a Teixera single. 5-1 Yankees with 1 out in the top of the 5th. A boring game. Not a competition. I’m going to bed.

Go Yankees.

Philly sucks.

20.42

Again, J-Roll pays some bills in The Wahl universe, but seriously, has he gotten on base yet? He just grounded out into a double play to end the top of the 5th inning.

20.34

Another uniform question: Why do the umpires wear jackets? It’s a formal job? Someone fill me in.

20.25

My interest is fading fast. I promised to stay for the entire game, but now that it is the middle of the 4th inning, I’m feeling very tempted to tune out.

I’ll see how the bottom of the 4th goes, but I’m not making any promises beyond that. But it doesn’t matter, because you don’t need me to know that the Yankees will win this b-tch.

20.08

‘Godzilla’ at it again. Just hit in two runs. Yankees up 4-1 with 2 out in the bottom of the 3rd. Phillies bullpen is warming up.

Series over.

20.06

How much did the Phillies pay for that called strike three the umpire just gave to A-Rod? That was such a ball. Terrible call. No replay available, though, of course (yet another reason why baseball sucks).

20.02

I just got a text from Wernick complaining about my plug for my top 10 list of reasons why baseball sucks. Then he’ll be glad to know that I just came up with another:

Managers are wearing the uniforms. Think about how ridiculous that is for a minute.

Can you imagine seeing Andy Reid or Bill Cowher on the sidelines of a football game coaching in full pads?

How about Pat Riley or Phil Jackson shouting out triangle offense calls while wearing a sleeveless jersey and shin-length shorts on? How about a compression arm band like Kobe or Allen Iverson?

I bet the managers are wearing cups just for sh-ts and giggles, too.

19.57

Ha, my point is proven. Joe Buck, half way through Game 6 of the World Series, is explaining things as if people are tuning in for the first time ever. He just explained what the “HK” logo means on the Phillies jersey.

Do you think Al Michaels is explaining what the yellow line on the field means during the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl? I think not.

Football rules.

19.47

I’m working on my top 10 list of reasons why baseball sucks. I got another one just now:

It’s the only major sport in the world that doesn’t play in a rectangular area. Football, basketball, hockey, tennis, and soccer — all rectangles. And it’s not even if the baseball stadiums are standard non-rectangular shapes.

That’s why you get crazy bounces like that triple the Phillies guy just got. It bounces off a ledge in the middle of play and goes 100 feet in the opposite direction? Dummmmmmmmmmmmmb.

19.37

That home run was a “Thrilla by Godzilla!” I’m told…

I didn’t even know that was his nickname. Now I do. Thanks, Melissa.

19.35

Matsui just hit a home run to go up 2-0 with 0 outs in the bottom of the 2nd inning.

Philly sucks!

Who’s your daddy?

19.27

The Fox graphic doesn’t even say what position these guys play when they come up to bat. C’mon, Joe Buck.

19.22

So, let me get this right. Selig is worried about the pace of the game and won’t institute a replay system because of it, but the pitcher can throw back to 1st base 100 times in a row to try deter the guy from stealing 2nd base?

This game is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo slow.

19.11

End of 1st inning.

6 batters. 6 outs.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Maybe there’s a D2 college football game on tonight that I could watch?

19.06

Pedro’s hair is amazing. If I could wear my hair like that, I would.

That alone is enough for me to cheer for him to win tonight.

19.01

If the ball doesn’t make more than 10 feet from home plate, when you take a full swing, it should be an automatic out. Victorino’s ‘hit’ wouldn’t be one in my better version of this sport.

18.59

Jimmy Rollins, a second-degree friend of The Wahl.

Has he reached base during this Series, though?

18.48

Mary J. Blige singing the National Anthem: what’s bigger? Her sunglasses or the hoops of her earrings? Discuss.

Better than Roseanne Barr, though.

18.45

MY PREDICTION FOR GAME 6:

Based on no knowledge than other what I’ve heard in the last half hour on ESPN and FOX, I think the Phillies will win this game. To me, it just doesn’t seem like an old pitcher like Andy Petitte should be throwing on short rest.

But Pedro is old too, so it’ll probably be high-scoring. As long as the Phillies can stay ahead of the Yankees before they get to Mariano Rivera:

Phillies 8, Yankees 6.

(I can’t believe I just picked a Philly team to win anything…)

18.36

Is that Ozzie Guillen, the White Sox Manager? He’s crazy isn’t he? Fox is probably on a heavy delay to make sure he doesn’t say anything too bad.

I’m usually pretty good with accents, but I can’t really understand what he’s saying. Is this just a blatant attempt to get more Hispanic/Latin viewers?

18.23

So my knowledge of the World Series consists of:

1) the first six innings of Game 1. I went to bed after the sixth, even though Cliff Lee was amazing, because I was bored with the game.

But what I did see, was quite amazing. It’s too bad Cliff Lee can’t pitch every night. But the guy who can pitch Game 7 for the Phillies, Cole Hamels, doesn’t even want to play anymore. Ha.

2) the last three innings of Game 4 on Saturday night, after a long day of partying, at a bar with a bunch of Phillies fans.

I don’t remember many specific about the game except being yelled at for cheering at the wrong time (by the Philly definition). I guess that means the Yankees won.

I haven’t even seen this whole Johnny Damon stealing thing that they keep talking about on sports talk radio/TV. I never even saw the highlights on ESPN. But I hear it was amazing, because Around The Horn and Pardon The Interruption were arguing that he should be given strong consideration for World Serioes MVP. Must have been interesting TV. Too bad I was busy watching the Saints-Falcons MNF game.

18.15

Everyone knows I don’t particularly like baseball, but I thought of a great new business for myself today (it’s not live-blogging baseball games, btw)…so, I’m feeling ambitious enough on a slow Wednesday night to try to live-blog Game 6 of the World Series tonight between the Phillies and Yankees. I will aim to provide everyone some perspective on a really important baseball game from a unique angle — an angle that combines my dislike for the sport of baseball, my dislike for the city of Philadelphia, and my like for sharing my random thoughts and opinions about everything with the masses.

Enjoy.