There’s a good chance they might not play another game until Saturday due to an unnaturally huge storm blasting it’s way through the Midwest.  I wonder if there’s ever been 2 rainouts in a row in World Series history?  With MLB pushing back the season further and further into autumn, we’re now almost guaranteed a November World Series game if this thing goes 7 games.  Thankfully St. Louis is south of Detroit because when you start playing outdoors at this time of year, anything place of the Mason-Dixon line could have a snowstorm, especially since no game is played before 8:30 PM EST.

While I don’t detest the Cardinals, they’re obviously The Enemy this week so I must make fun of a fan’s sign that was at Game 3.    It alluded to the 3 times the Tigers and Cardinals have faced each other in the World Series - - ‘34, ‘68, and ’06.  The sign said something like “3 in a row” with 3 cards showing those years' numbers, but what made it funny was that if that Cardinals fan had actually known their history, they would have known the Tigers WON in 1968.  But I'm sure one's brain becomes muddled when living in a city known derisively by Chicagoans as "Milwaukee Without The Lake Breeze".

I felt bad for John (Don’t call me Cougar) Mellencamp’s group before Game 2 when they were trotted out to home plate for a blatant plug for his new album and then Crazy Cougar didn’t show up for a good 5 minutes, leaving his singing compatriots to shuffle their feet, look around nervously, made idle nervous chatter, and shove their hands in their pockets.  If I’m the program director from Fox at that point, I would have firmly pushed The Artist Formerly Known As Cougar outside and wouldn’t have cared if a heroin needle was still stuck in his arm.  “Get your ass out there, you primadonna.  Who do you think you are?  Axl Rose?”

Is Fox capable of having anyone sing the National Anthem or God Bless America besides country music stars and American Idol rejects?  Sadly, I wasn’t that impressed with Anita Baker’s version of the national anthem in Game 2 but I’ll give her a mulligan on that one since it must be tough to make the vocal cords work properly when the temperature is in the 30s.