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Historic day of rainouts around MLB
Topic Started: Sep 12 2008, 11:49 PM (253 Views)
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Misery loves company and so, apparently, does miserable weather.

From a relentless hurricane in the Gulf to torrential rains in the East and in the Midwest, Major League Baseball's Friday schedule stepped into its second-biggest puddle in more than a decade.

Remarkably, each of the six postponed games had postseason implications, as Mother Nature played havoc with the genuine launch of the September stretch drive.

At the outset of the third-to-last weekend of the regular season, only tarpaulins stretched across diamonds from Chicago to New York.

The six postponements matched the toll of April 15, 2007, as the Majors' most in one day since April 12, 1997, when eight games were washed away.

The only port -- as in, left-hand side -- in this storm was California and the rest of the Left Coast, where five games went off without a tarp.

With the exception of the delayed Cubs-Astros series, hopefully anticipating Sunday as the earliest it could possibly start in Hurricane Ike-targeted Houston, the other teams will try again on Saturday.

The quaintest effect of Friday's postponements will be a trio of flashback afternoons of baseball.

The Braves-Mets, Twins-Orioles and Tigers-White Sox will attempt to play old-fashioned, single-admission, 20-minutes-between-games doubleheaders on Saturday.

Atlanta and the Mets in Shea Stadium and the Tigers and the White Sox in U.S. Cellular Field will both get it going at 3:55 p.m. ET as the scheduled FOX TV Games of the Week.

Announced makeups of Friday's other washed-out games:

• In Yankee Stadium, the Rays and the Bombers will play a 7:05 p.m. ET nightcap of a day-night doubleheader following the regularly scheduled 1:05 p.m. ET game.

• In Citizens Bank Park, the Brewers and Phillies will also play a day-night doubleheader -- but on Sunday.

The storm unwittingly set up a unique New York day of baseball as both of the city's teams prepare to shutter their respective ballparks.

Saturday will mark only the third time both the Mets and Yankees play two home games on the same day. The precedents were on Sept. 21, 1982, and on April 13, 1997.

The Cubs and Astros, of course, are in a unique situation. The first two games of their key National League Central and Wild Card series were canceled earlier as a preventive measure, for what Chicago manager Lou Piniella called the "Hurricane Ike hiatus."

The baseball set in Minute Maid Park is one of about 20 sporting events disrupted by the hurricane, which was expected to hit landfall late Friday near Galveston, Texas, then cast its eye toward Houston, a mere 48 miles away.

And there is no assurance that Houston will be baseball-ready on Sunday, when the teams could play a doubleheader before concluding the delayed series with a game on Monday, the final scheduled off-day for both teams.

Anticipating that Sunday's game could also fall prey to Hurricane Ike's lingering effects, MLB officials have contingency plans for the teams to play a Monday doubleheader, then make up the third game, if necessary, on Sept. 29, the day after the scheduled end of the regular season.

None of the postponements may have as big an impact as the most predictable one: The Astros can only hope that Hurricane Ike's winds won't suck all the momentum out of their Rockies-like charge.

On Thursday night against the Pirates, the Astros won their 14th in 15 games, a surge that has rocketed them from 11 games behind Milwaukee in the NL Wild Card standings on Aug. 26, to within three games.

Having that inertia interrupted might seem unfortunate. But the view in the clubhouse, as usual, is different, more pragmatic.

"If you look at this in a vacuum, you say that two days off right now is not a bad thing for us," said the Astros' Lance Berkman. "We do have some guys that are battling some things. It gives you a chance to regroup."

The delays might do more to throw the Cubs out of sync. As their rotation originally set up for the series, right-handed ace Carlos Zambrano was set to make his comeback start in the middle game. Zambrano, anxious after not having pitched since Sept. 2 due to rotator cuff tendinitis, certainly doesn't need the extra days off.

"It is weird," said Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee, regarding the involuntary hole in the schedule. "It's Mother Nature. What are you going to do?"

Go away, try again another day?


Fuckin Hurricanes.
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Yeah, six doubleheaders tomorow.
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Only 6? Man, I wanted to see all 15 play 2 games.
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Now you see why we need retractable roof domed stadiums? Now if this damn Government make manditory seat belt laws. I want manditary retractable roof Dome stadiums manditory OR BALLCLUBS PAY FINES! Just like this bullshit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8naTEn_uE&NR=1
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steveox,Sep 13 2008
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Now you see why we need retractable roof domed stadiums? Now if this damn Government make manditory seat belt laws. I want manditary retractable roof Dome stadiums manditory OR BALLCLUBS PAY FINES! Just like this bullshit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8naTEn_uE&NR=1

Well next time so one lets you in their car, don't put on that seat belt and tell me what happens.
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steveox,Sep 13 2008
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Now you see why we need retractable roof domed stadiums? Now if this damn Government make manditory seat belt laws. I want manditary retractable roof Dome stadiums manditory OR BALLCLUBS PAY FINES! Just like this bullshit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8naTEn_uE&NR=1

Double headers are one of the best parts of baseball. And since they're almost never scheduled, rain outs are the only way of them happening.
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steveox,Sep 13 2008
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Now you see why we need retractable roof domed stadiums? Now if this damn Government make manditory seat belt laws. I want manditary retractable roof Dome stadiums manditory OR BALLCLUBS PAY FINES! Just like this bullshit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8naTEn_uE&NR=1

You can't just require a bunch of teams that don't have the money or support for a new stadium or costly additions to have a retractable roof. Maybe something like if a team is building a new stadium, it has to have one.
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lol look at all the games.
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The Twins could be 1 up after today, or 3 down. Pass me the Tums.
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Yeah there was a lot of nothing going on last night, except rain.
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It kinda fucked me over yesterday...

I had like 2 guys playing out of 11. 8 on rainouts and Ryan Doumit just decided to take the day off.
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KeepTheFaith,Sep 13 2008
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steveox,Sep 13 2008
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Now you see why we need retractable roof domed stadiums? Now if this damn Government make manditory seat belt laws. I want manditary retractable roof Dome stadiums manditory OR BALLCLUBS PAY FINES! Just like this bullshit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8naTEn_uE&NR=1

You can't just require a bunch of teams that don't have the money or support for a new stadium or costly additions to have a retractable roof. Maybe something like if a team is building a new stadium, it has to have one.

Go tell that to the Owners of the NFL when the league wouldnt allow an outdoor stadium with articfical turf. Its a rule in the NFL unless your stadium is compleatly domed you can't have articfical turf.
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