Pearl Jam vs. Jay-Z In A Struggle For World Series Domination

Pearl Jam is near the end of a five-concert stop at the Wachovia Spectrum Arena in Philadelphia (they play the last-ever event at the facility on Saturday), which must have been quite a dilemma for some Phillies fans on Wednesday. World Series or Johnny Guitar? Cliff Lee or Supersonic? Ahh, it’s enough to make a Phillies fan’s head be asplodin’.
As we see here to the right, however, Vedder refused to keep the Phillie Phaithful hanging (although if you DVR’d the game, you’re still a little P.O.’d right now). It’s the first rock concert I can recall with baseball scoreboard updates.
Meanwhile, Jay-Z is taking credit for the Yankees’ win on Thursday. Yep.

From The 700 Level:

(Pearl Jam is) also known to be baseball enthusiasts, and we’ve been getting reports that they’ve dedicated songs to Shane Victorino, Brad Lidge, and Raul Ibanez, the latter being a friend from his days playing in the grunge capital.

Perhaps the coolest thing they’ve done though, is provide regular score updates, with a showgirl-appareled woman carrying ring cards and Vedder announcing how the runs were scored.

Video here.
Meanwhile, Contact Music.com reports that Jay-Z’s Yankees Stadium performance on Thursday was originally supposed to occur the day before, but was postponed due to bad weather. You can’t rap in the rain? Who knew?

The 99 Problems hitmaker rapped, “I made the Yankees hat more famous than a Yankee can!” as images of the city flashed across several giant screens throughout the stadium. After his stunning collaboration with Alicia Keys, Jay-Z yelled to the crowd, “Let’s go!” — and his encouragement obviously worked, as the Yankees claimed a crucial 3-1 victory over the Phillies.

Jay-Z’s performance was originally scheduled for Wednesday (28Oct09), but was postponed by Major League Baseball (MLB) officials because of bad weather.

There’s nothing that shouts journalistic integrity quite like a music site that runs press releases, is there?