Land of the Midnight Baseball Game

[Frayed Knot]

Following a [u:4e0547633f]FOUR HOUR[/u:4e0547633f] rain delay in Detroit, the Tigers/Yanx game is getting ready to start at 11:06 PM local time.

I'm fucking stunned they'd wait this long to play a game. Looks like they'll go to any lengths to avoid playing a DH, something that would be easily doable as this is the first of a four game series.

[Guest SI Metman]

I seriously woulda left the ballpark 2 hours earlier.

If I'm the Tigers, I do something for the 54 people that stayed (like all you can eat hot dogs) and give the other 45,000 first dibs on tickets for an MFY game next season.

[bmfc1]

Here's another example of MLB not caring about the paying fans: ESPN moved Sunday's game at Shea from 1 to 8. (ESPN has that right). It's kids run the bases day and kids helmet day but let's make the 12 and under stay up until 11 and get home after midnight!

[Guest SI Metman]

bmfc1 wrote: Here's another example of MLB not caring about the paying fans: ESPN moved Sunday's game at Shea from 1 to 8. (ESPN has that right). It's kids run the bases day and kids helmet day but let's make the 12 and under stay up until 11 and get home after midnight!

Yeah, Mushnick had a nice little rant about that in today's Post. It sucks for us Sunday Plan people too, especially those with work on Monday and intentions of sneaking out of work early to get down to Philly for a game at CBP.

[bmfc1]

Good luck with that SI--if you haven't been, CBP is nice despite the main tenant.

[Guest SI Metman]

bmfc1 wrote: Good luck with that SI--if you haven't been, CBP is nice despite the main tenant.

Oh no, I've been to CBP at least twice annually since it opened. It's actually sometimes quicker to get there instead of Shea, especially on a weeknight.

[G-Fafif]

MFYs fell to Tigers in eleven innings at 3:30 AM EDT.

Pretty-good sized crowd stuck around.

[Frayed Knot]

Sounds like it was a fun game to watch ... although few probably watched it (and, no, I wasn't one of them).

Not only was the 4-hour+ delay bad enough but since there appears to be some rule where no Yanqui game can take less than 3:15 under normal circumstances they were already looking at past 2AM if things went smoothly. Then this one went 11 innings to boot - ending on a Carlos Guillen 3R walkoff HR - so the game time was 4:26, making the wait + game a tidy 8 hours 27 minutes.

Supposedly there were fireworks planned (maybe that's why there were still fans at the end) but they canceled that somewhere along the line. Guess they're smarter than those folks in Atlanta were 22 years back.

There used to be a curfew rule in the AL but apparently that gets quashed if it's during a team's last trip in - and since most teams only make one trip to all but their in-division opponents that rule effectively doesn't exist anymore.

Fortunately for all involved Saturday's game is a night contest.

Tigger OFer Curtis Granderson hit 2 triples (also a double) giving him 21 for the year!!

Tigger 2B-man Placido Polanco made an error, his first in 147 consecutive games.

Mariners also won dropping the Yanx to 3 behind in the WC race.

[Guest Iubitul]

I was one of the few who watched it. I woke up around 1, and saw it while I was channel surfing. I thought it was a replay at first...

Sometimes, insomnia can have it's good moments...