When you're hot, you're hot. Fox's Glee is hot. It's sizzling. The music is all over the charts. Their single, "Don't Stop Believin'" went gold. It seems like everything it going right for this Ryan Murphy show.

For the third game of the World Series on the night of Halloween, fate tried to rain on the Glee parade. Literally. It rained.

In Philadelphia where the game was being played, there was a rain delay of over an hour. If you were a Glee fan -- a Gleek -- tuning in just to see the troupe before the game, you had to be disappointed.

However, if you stuck with the lame Fox filler -- a replay of the previous game's final inning and The Cleveland Show (did they show a whole episode?) -- you were rewarded at about 9:15 p.m. when they introduced the Glee cast to sing the National Anthem. If you missed it, here it is:




Well, the music speaks for itself. Brava to Amber Riley! Glee's Mercedes was wonderful. Her rendition kicked butt, in my opinion. She belted it out and ignored the rain. She pulled a Gene Kelly and simply sang in it. I would have liked it if the Fox cameras had given the group some close ups; after all, the network is supposed to be promoting these performers.

Nevertheless, Glee did it again. They triumphed. I'm starting to see a pattern here... could there be some Emmys in its future?