Let it Snow!

[Guest Edgy DC]

I was thinking it would be a greater advantage than usual to the smaller runners, or at least the shorter ones.

Angels are in a tough situation.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Memo to MLB: stick as closely as possible to division play in April.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Not looking good for tonight or tommorrow in Philly, I think our next game is Wednesday in Miami

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Here's what the National Weather Service has for Philadelphia for the next two nights:

="National Weather Service"]Tonight: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 36. Breezy, with a north wind 26 to 29 mph decreasing to between 18 and 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Tuesday: A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50. North wind between 18 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Tuesday Night: A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. North wind between 11 and 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

If that's right, then a game on Tuesday might be possible.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think everybody should play in Milwaukee.

[Guest sharpie]

The Patriot's Day game is being played. Top o' the first.

[Guest Edgy DC]

But Boston has been able to juggle their rotation to send Schilling, Beckett (who's had a good start), and Matsuzaka against the Yankees. Julian Tavarez may not pitch until May

[Frayed Knot]

sharpie wrote: The Patriot's Day game is being played. Top o' the first.

I only listened to FAN for about 2 different 10-minute spans this morning, but both times I heard that the game had been called.
As annoying as that station can be at times they're generally not a source of bad info ... except today apparently.

]Memo to MLB: stick as closely as possible to division play in April.

Unfortunately, that memo is getting lost in the flood of memos imploring them to do essentially the opposite: ie. schedule as many warm weather site games as possible.
The fault, of course, lies in the schedule that's been neccesitated by expansion and inter-league but no one wants to hear that.

In all I'm not sure there's much MLB can do here.
The northern teams don't want to start on the road every year and turn their 6 weeks in Fla/Arz into 8 weeks away from home. The warm weather sites don't want to start with extended homestands as they feel that an excess of April games means a lack of July ones when school's out and the weather is better. And then you've got the two-team cities that don't want both at home or on the road at the same time.
Plus as it turns out, even if they somehow did arrange to keep week 1 games all in domes or the south, they're getting killed at least as bad in week 2 here.
Sometimes you just gotta chalk it up to bad luck and deal with it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sure. But I'm certainly not calling for more warm-weather sites.

[nymr83]

the call for more division games makes more sense. it would also make sense to try and have as any of the non-division games as possible played right before a mutual offday so that the visitor who is not returning to town all year can stay the extra day and finish it up

[Frayed Knot]

Unfortunately it's not so easy now to keep things intra-division because of the odd sized divisions and so on. Back with the old two-division formats all games during the first 6 weeks of the season was all east-v-east and west-v-west.

And my point from earlier was that keeping things within the division is the exact opposite of what most seem to think should be the "solution" to this weather problem. A SD-v-LA or Ariz game would be a waste to many since they want all those cities to be hosting bad weather teams rather than each other.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Fuck those people.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

There really is no perfect solution to this problem.

One thing they could do is start the playoffs on the Friday following the regular season instead of on Tuesday, like they usually do.

So if the Giants aren't going back to Pittsburgh, and there's no open date that makes sense, don't reschedule it. And if it turns out that there are a few unplayed games that will have an impact on who makes the postseason, there will be time to play them in October.

I'd think that most of the games will be able to be rescheduled during the season, and most of those that aren't won't end up mattering and won't need to be played during that buffer zone in October.

If that means a few teams lose a few home dates, then so be it.

Another possiblity would be to let the Pirates play an extra game in San Francisco. If the Giants get an extra home date, make them give the Pirates a bigger cut. After all, if it hadn't rained in Pittsburgh the Giants wouldn't have had the chance to schedule that extra game.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I didn't mean to (1) suggest that there was a perfect solution, (2) suggest all games could be intradivision, (3) suggest that this be done at the same time as scheduing as many games in warm-weather or domed stadia. I made a suggestion, pushing an angle which MLB probably already highly values.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kenya took the Men's division in Boston as Robert K Cheruiyot finished in 2:14:13. The top US male wasn't far off the pace, as Peter M. Gilmore finished eighth, at 2:16:41. He was seventh last year. In front of him was an Italian, an Ehiope, and five Kenyans.

East Africa didn't fare so decisively in the Women's division as Russian Lidiya Grigoryeva finished on top, at 2:29:18 American Deena Kastor finished 5th at 2:35:09, behind two Grigoryeva, one of Centerfield's Latvians, a Mexican, and Kenyan.

[nymr83]

]One thing they could do is start the playoffs on the Friday following the regular season instead of on Tuesday, like they usually do

they are more afraid of a frigid WS in Boston/Cleveland than they are of losing a game in April, also I'd hate to have teams get additional days off between the playoffs and the season to rest their rotation... I love that the first round rewards teams who blew away the competition by letting them setup their rotation at the end of September while teams who didn't lock things up sooner have to go with whoever is rested

[Frayed Knot]

With a nod toward the recent weather, MLB has named David Weathers, Tim Raines, J.T. Snow, Curt Flood, Rich Gale, and Gene Freeze as co-players of the week.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Storm Davis demands a re-count.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

="National Weather Service"] Late Afternoon: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 50. Breezy, with a north wind around 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Tonight: A chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Breezy, with a north wind between 14 and 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

The forecast isn't as bad as it has been, but tonight's game still seems rather iffy.

I live about 30 miles from the Phillies ballpark and there hasn't been any rain yet today. The skies have been grey all day, though, and there's a heavy breeze. It might very well start raining within the half hour.