Green Options » Philadelphia Phillies http://greenoptions.com/tag/philadelphia-phillies Posts tagged 'Philadelphia Phillies' Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:00:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Environmental Impact of the Most Important Rain Delayed Baseball Game Ever http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/30/the-environmental-impact-of-the-most-important-rain-delayed-baseball-game-ever/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/30/the-environmental-impact-of-the-most-important-rain-delayed-baseball-game-ever/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:00:11 +0000 Robin Shreeves http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/30/the-environmental-impact-of-the-most-important-rain-delayed-baseball-game-ever/ Phillies kidAs I sit down to write this, there are fireworks going off down the street. People are yelling and screaming, hooting and hollering. Car horns are honking.

I live about 5 miles as the crow flies from South Philly, and the Phillies just won the World Series in the most important rain delayed baseball game ever.

I’m not a big sports fan, but like everyone else in the region, I’ve felt the excitement of the past week. A sea of red t-shirts and baseball caps has poured out of the elementary school doors each day when I pick my kids up from school. My local friends who have Facebook accounts have been talking Phillies for days. It’s been Phillies Fever all the way. The rain delay and the two days of waiting for this final game to continue has only added to the frenzy.

But I’ve got to wonder, what was mother nature thinking when she rained out Tuesday night’s game? Didn’t she realize that the environmental impact of this particular game would be doubled?

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