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Walleye

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8. It was pretty interesting there was a 40 hour rain delay

Reply to EnergizedLib (Reply #7)

Sun Oct 23, 2022, 06:17 PM

Oct 2022

Phils were ahead after five innings and the bottom dropped out. Deluge. And nobody wanted to award the World Series on the basis of a five inning game. So they had to delay until two days later when it finally stopped raining. The Phillies went ahead to win and it was actually better for me because it is hell to shoot sports in the rain, and I had a much earlier victory to make deadline with

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I've seen a lot of pennant winners in person [View all] EnergizedLib Oct 2022 OP

It's been 14 years since Phillie went to the Series. Scottie Mom Oct 2022 #1

WAHOO! cornball 24 Oct 2022 #3

Thanks for the tease; guess I should be paying attention, elleng Oct 2022 #2

GO Phillies! FalloutShelter Oct 2022 #4

AND PHILLY GOES WILD! BumRushDaShow Oct 2022 #5

I was in the photographers dugout shooting for the paper at the 2008 series Walleye Oct 2022 #6

No kidding EnergizedLib Oct 2022 #7

It was pretty interesting there was a 40 hour rain delay Walleye Oct 2022 #8

It sounds like it worked for you EnergizedLib Oct 2022 #9

Well the earlier the better on those things 9 PM is the sports deadline used to be Walleye Oct 2022 #10

The game before that was actually a little better for me Walleye Oct 2022 #11