In a post mostly about how the World Series may end up costing him Halloween with his daughter, Joe Posnanski offers lots of insight into the weather situation last night.

I think there are mixed feelings about Bud's decision to play ball on Monday, and I also think that's right. Some think Bud's an idiot. Some think he's unlucky. Some think he handled it all as well as anyone could. I think there is truth in all those things.

My big problem with the decision is that in the press box, it seemed obvious that a major rain storm was probably coming. The guy on television said that the rain would get heavier at about 10 p.m. Eastern (which it did, by the way -- this guy should be baseball's official meteorologist). The amateur radar readers in the press box unanimously felt like there was an awful lot of nasty green glow heading Philadelphia's way. It all seemed kind of obvious. I know Bud said that three different weather services told him that it was going to be light rain throughout the night and nothing more, but frankly I find that to be incredible -- I mean, if baseball hacks can at least see the POSSIBILITY of heavy rain coming, I would hope that people who go to Meteorology College or whatever could at least have given Bud a percentage chance that it would start pouring in two hours.

In any case, in my mind, the mistake was in starting the game. But, to be fair, he didn't have many good options. People have emailed and commented that he could have started the game ninety minutes earlier, and in another time he might have done that. But realistically, I suspect, you can't change times on FOX at the last minute -- I mean, FOX is giving baseball billions of dollars. You also can't do that to people who are spending thousands of dollars for tickets. You can't decide at the last minute to change the starting time on what might be the biggest sports moment in Philadelphia in a quarter century.** Plus, if his weather people didn't know it would pour TWO HOURS before it poured, how the heck would they have known early enough to make that decision?

I'm very glad it was not me making that decision.