TEN THINGS TO DO IN WILMINGTON DELAWARE

(Or why the Tampa Bay Rays were not in danger of any pre Game 5 hijinx!)

I've been to Wilmington enough to know you can do the following things there:

1. Set up a PO Box for a corporation.
2. Have someone explain why it is "The First State" and nod politely during the explanation.
3. Visit the Rockwood Museum at 610 Shipley Road
4. Ask someone why everything is named "DuPont" in Wilmington and nod politely during the explanation.
5. Find that place in Wilmington that mails you all the credit card applications and egg it.
6. Keep driving on 95 and be amazed how quickly you pass through Delaware on the way to Maryland.
7. Grab a drink at the Washington Street Ale House
8. Visit my Uncle Don, Aunt Martha and my Cousin Bill. I'm sure they'd love to host the Tampa Bay Rays.
9. Go to a Sullivan family wedding and get trashed.
10. Play a drinking game where everytime you meet someone who has met Joe Biden, you do a shot.

Well there's no Sullivan wedding this week and you can do the Joe Biden drinking game in the hotel bar.

This mess of a World Series has done the unthinkable...

The city of Wilmington Delaware has become a factor in the World Series.

It's bad enough for Fox, who had dreams of Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York dancing in their heads, are stuck with Philadelphia and Tampa Bay.

It's bad enough that they tried to play in worse weather than Bishop Pickering had when he was struck by lightning*.

It's bad enough that the stupid decision to play the game, have the Phillies waste their best pitcher and then have the grounds crew pull the tarp out as the tying run was scoring...

But now it turns out they had the same luck as Mary and Joseph finding a hotel room in Philly.
So off they go to Wilmington Delaware and the Hotel Du Pont.

Now it looks like a sweet hotel... but this was the October we were going to be comparing the Green Monster of Fenway to the Ivy Covered walls of Wrigley... not write the new chapter in the Wilmington Michelin Guide!

One thing MLB doesn't have to worry about is a Ray Lewis-esque night club shooting during the down time in Wilmington.
It's not exactly a den of temptation.

You don't hear a lot of newly single men saying "Let's go to Wilmington and forget about her!"

I'm guessing a lot of the guys stayed in their room and watched Iron Man on Pay Per View.







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