Happy Felix Day, maybe?
Here’s the National Weather Service short version:
Today: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Steady temperature around 72. Northeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
The MLB.com blurb says
Area rain will delay the start time until at least 12:05 p.m. PT.
Surprised they’re not just making them play now. Worked last night, didn’t it? Are they really hoping they’ll get six-something hours in? Or why not pack everyone up and play them up here when it was clear the weekend was going to be awful? They’ve got direct charter flights, and — I’ll stop ranting. I’m just not looking forward to twelve hours of on-again, off-again baseball while worrying somebody’s going to get hurt.
Update! 2:05. So now we’re hoping they can get two games in, 4 local and then ~7 local. yeaaahhhh.
Update: 2:45. If they wanted to really get two games in, the way to do it would be to get the broadcasters to run w/no commercial breaks (or super-limited ones). You could craaank these out.
I like the ‘move it here’ idea. And if the Rangers are worried about lost revenue for games played away, couldn’t MLB arrange for some sort of revenue sharing?
Might be a bit rough to find parking – what with that football game next door and all…..
Back with my daily weather report. Like I said yesterday, I live in Arlington about 10 miles south of the ballpark and its been raining steadily all day. The weather radar doesn’t look good either. I haven’t seen this much rain since moving from Seattle.
Any breaks in the weather today are probably going to be sporadic so hopefully we won’t see a situation like yesterday where the umpires feel pressured to keep playing the game in unplayable conditions.
Too bad the Astros have a home series this weekend…
“Mariners add Tuiasosopo, Olson, Moore to roster and should join team today. RHP Stephen Kahn placed on unconditional release waivers.” say the Ms
while worrying somebody’s going to get hurt.
Last night revealed a pretty callous attitude toward the players. There’s no way they should have been playing in those conditions.
They can play in the rain. Fans might not enjoy attending but the game can be played.
See, I kinda like the idea of moving the remaining games to Minute Maid, too. Granted, Houston would be either a few hours by bus or a short commuter flight away, but Selig essentially OK’d something like that a couple of years ago for that Indians-Angels series after the Great Blizzard of April ’07 left Jacobs Field snowbound for days…
Though I still wish he would’ve extended that courtesy to the M’s as well, instead of forcing them to go back to Cleveland on what seemed like every road trip “off-day” to make up another game from that snowed-out series.
It’s the top ten Griffey moments, again.
Please stop raining, please!
Ian Snell interview: Wow, he’s still dogging on the Pirates and Pittsburg.
Let’s hope he never has to break up with the Mariners; may not be pretty.
Well, we could always enjoy the last few glorious minutes of
having Brett Favre rammed down our throats one more timeer, excuse me, Brett Favre’s “debut” with the Minnesota Vikings on Faux.Thanks scott, for warning me. It’s going to be a loooonnnng football season….oh, wait, he’ll be injured by week three.
I’ll watch Lockup instead. Women behind bars!
“Great defense by Josh Wilson” (from the Seahawks game; gotta find what you can find).
Wow…Seahawks vs. Rams early on appears to be a comedy of errors — or, should I say, turnovers.
On the snarky side, of course, I’m still amazed at how Josh Wilson can be both sitting in the dugout down in Arlington and running around Qwest Field at the same time — talk about your “two-sport wonders”! 😉
are you sure it was a recent one? they’ve been filling time by replaying interviews from the last month or so …
I’m sure it was an older piece, but I guess my thought is, it’s over, move on, Ian, no matter if it was a week after he got to Seattle or yesterday.
And I swear he said that he considered suicide. Uh, a bit TMI for this fluff interview.
They’ve got Dave doing the keys to the game now
– Have you seen my keys
– I left them on the night stand
– You must have moved them
A game!
Wheee!
Ichiro!
Soooo…Freddy Garcia is starting Tuesday night’s game for the Chisox, eh?
Guess we know who Rizzy’s guest on “Inside The Visitor’s Clubhouse” will be.
“Freddy, take us back to the great days of 2001.”
“2001? I won a freaking world’s championship in 2005.”
And I enjoyed every minute of watching Freddy stick it to Clemens in that Series after getting gypped out of a ring two years in a row by the Yanks while he was pitching here.
I wish the teams could just concede without penalty in situations like this. The M’s should be able to say “Okay, we’re way down and we want to get two in while the getting’s good, here, call game one, let’s move on.”
That’s what’s nice about that “mercy rule” that they use in Little League…except that, if they actually used something like that in the majors, we still probably wouldn’t even be close to the mercy threshold yet at only four runs down.
Though that “mercy threshold” is slowly creeping up on the M’s…