After some hesitation this morning, Major League Baseball has announced that the remainder of the Rays/Phillies Game 5 will start at 8:37 tonight. The score is tied 2-2, with the Phillies coming up in the bottom of the 6th.

Weather.com forecasts that it will be mostly cloudy and 39 degrees (with a feels-like of 31), so you're apt to see more players wearing those hats with the cute ear coverings. The hopefully rejuvenated Rays now get a chance at redemption, but more important, an opportunity to bring the Series back to St. Pete. Those game would be played on Thursday and Friday.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...