I imagine the entire city of Philadelphia is pretty upset after the debacle of Game 5. I can't think of a valid reason to have started that game in the downpour...I imagine with the late nights, cold weather, and rain there might be a few tired and angry Fightin' Phils fans today...
-- Dr. Todd
Steve, getting any sleep with the Phillies???
Judging by the murder rate (somewhere above 27 per 100,000 people), it already is. A loss in the WS would just produce higher waves. But it's hard to predict if riots following a loss would be any worse than riots after a win....Philadelphia will be a sea of angry people.
P.S. It might be safer to concentrate on Penn State than on the Phillies.
Yo Todd, you woke me up again. Can't see the city from here, but celebrations seem restrained: one car on fire, one overturned. A crowd broke into a luggage store [presumably after a cop told the crowd to "get a grip"]. City-wide gunshots appear to have been harmless, except for one guy who was shot "multiple times" in Kensington [which happens almost daily].
Bob, better to have been at the bottom of the pile than here, even with Ryan Howard on top of you:
"Vandalism is in the eye of the beholder" quote of the day:The celebration began to go out of control, particularly in Center City, where drunken revelers began to destroy public property and parked vehicles.
Monitoring the crowds from a bank of video screens at the Spring Garden Street command post, police commanders quickly dispatched several buses of officers in riot gear. Supported by state police mounted and aerial units, the reinforcements moved into Broad Street, breaking up the crowd and restoring order.
After the revelers had gone home, bottles and broken glass covered the street, newspapers blew in the wind, and some fires still smoldered. Several cars were turned over, and more yawned with shattered windshields.
"It looked like Beirut," Ross said. "If you looked at the street, you would have thought all the windows were broken out."
Across Broad Street, a crew from Northeast Philadelphia-based Eureka Metal & Glass Services Inc. repaired Commerce Bank's broken windows.
Glazier Jeff Tuffner shrugged. "What are you going to do? People got out of control. It's the alcohol," he said.
"It's a shame. But at the same time, it's good for business," said Tuffner, wearing a Phillies cap.
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Robyn Summerlin
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Wow, feel the love! Can't remember ever seeing a crowd like the one at the Phillies parade yesterday. The route was about 5 miles down 6-lane-wide Broad St., and the crowd jammed the whole route, barely clearing a lane for each parade truck as it crawled by. The side streets were jammed with phans, too. It looked like the team was overwhelmed by the outpouring of the loving pheelings from the phans. And nary a burning car in sight! As Robyn indicated, it was relatively moral.