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="National Weather Service"]Tonight: A chance of rain and thunderstorms, then rain likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 10pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Cloudy, with a low around 69. South wind between 7 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Saturday: Rain and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 79. Breezy, with a southeast wind 11 to 14 mph increasing to between 19 and 22 mph. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between two and three inches possible.

Saturday Night: Rain likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 2am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Cloudy, with a low around 68. Windy, with a north wind between 28 and 36 mph, with gusts as high as 47 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between three and four inches possible.

Sunday: A slight chance of showers before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 83. North wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 69.


Based on the above, I'm guessing we'll see a doubleheader on Sunday.

Maybe they'll be able to sneak in a game tonight, otherwise this may end up as a two-game series.


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Valadius wrote:
If there's one thing about MLB that bothers me, it's that they don't force teams to play all 162 games.


Would you like another crack at November baseball?


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That's the one thing that bothers you?

They will play tonite. They know what's coming.


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Valadius wrote:
If there's one thing about MLB that bothers me, it's that they don't force teams to play all 162 games.


AT GUNPOINT!

Meanwhile, the Braves at the Fish a few nights ago had 400 people through the turnstiles. Reports said you could hear the catcher's chatter clearly from the pressbox.

They do their best to get a full schedule in. Eventually, you have to let it go. Nobody wants to delay the post-season because the Orioles owe the Mariners a visit.


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Valadius wrote:
If there's one thing about MLB that bothers me, it's that they don't force teams to play all 162 games.


?!!?

There are 2,430 scheduled MLB games each season and I'd be surprised if they don't average at least 2,425 played each year - and the few that don't get played are usually late-season wash-outs where there's no time (and no reason) to re-sked.


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Frayed Knot wrote:
There are 2,430 scheduled MLB games each season and I'd be surprised if they don't average at least 2,425 played each year


In 2007 they played every scheduled regular seasons game - plus an extra one for the 'play-in' game between Colorado & SD, and played 2,429 of the scheduled 2,430 in 2006
That's as far back as I felt like checking, but I'm certainly not going to complain if they miss one game in every 5K or so.

In the early decades of the 1900s they used to never make up rainouts and league championships were often decided by narrow margins between teams playing differing number of games.


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any game that matters for the playoffs gets made up, thats all i care about. If the Mets sucked one year and a game got rained out with no available makeup day i wouldn't really care, even if i had tickets.


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rain check policy is that you can exchange tix for any other available game that season or the next one (or a refund), so what's the beef?


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Looks like they're moving the rain forecast up by a couple of hours. Now they're saying it may start raining at 8 p.m. Makes squeezing in a game a bit more difficult if true.

="National Weather Service"]Tonight:A chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8pm and 10pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly after 1am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Areas of fog after 10pm. Low around 69. South wind between 7 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.


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FWIW, at 5:45 it's clear in Central NJ and the immediate radar picture is pretty clean.


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Things are still looking clear in Central NJ at this time.


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Rained for a while overnight but now is just cloudy, humid and soupy.
Sounds like it's going to be off and on for this afternoon eventually getting steadier, harder & windier as it gets later and into overnight.
If this were a 1:00 game they might get it in but probably not with the 3:55 start.

Leftover stuff Sunday morning but should be gone in time for the likely 1:00 / 8:00 DH


What this is really going to screw up is the tennis.
Saturday is their big day: both Men's semis then the women's final - all starting around 11 AM
Good luck with that!


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From MetsBlog:

Today�s game against the Phillies has been postponed due to the imminent storm.

There will in fact be a day-night doubleheader tomorrow, with today�s game being rescheduled for 2:15 p.m.

Tickets for today�s game will be honored at the afternoon game.


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So what network airs this game? Hopefully it's SNY.

The weekend games on CW11 usually get piped in by Time Warner up here on an unused local access channel (like last night), but generally they only do that if they are already on the schedule.


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The real heavy stuff started falling right about at what would have been first pitch.
Nice that they actually made the smart call by canning the game early this AM.
Dodgers/Snakes game being show instead.



The tennis found an interesting way to deal with the weather.
The mens' semis were supposed to be consecutive, around 11AM and then about 2PM. But instead they used seperate courts to run them concurrently (with about a one hour stagger) in order to beat the rain.
It actually kind of sucks for those who bought tickets expecting to see both matches. I guess you got your choice of either/or but I doubt they worked any refund into that.
CBS then maintained a news blackout on the 2nd semi while they were showing the first so they could then show #2 right afterward under the "plausibly live" method (to borrow Dick Ebersol's phrase from his Olympic telecasts).

They didn't get the full 2nd semi in, but at least they don't have to start from scratch when they pick it up tomorrow. Guess they'll push the final to Monday.
The women's final was to be a seperate admission deal at night and I assume they've already pushed that until tomorrow.


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FK: I guess you got your choice of either/or but I doubt they worked any refund into that<<<

They probably tack on a choice fee.


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Latest forecast for tonight and the weekend:

="National Weather Service"]Late Afternoon: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 70. South wind around 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight: Rain, mainly before 2am. Low around 66. South wind 7 to 9 mph becoming west. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday: A slight chance of showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. North wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 70. Southwest wind between 8 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 86. West wind between 8 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.


Looks like Saturday's game is in the least jeopardy. It also looks possible that all three games will be played without delay or rainout.

Let's hope so anyway. There are no more open dates on the Mets schedule.


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I read that forecast as saying that tonight's game might -- at worst -- have a short delay, or some drizzle, but nothing to prevent the game from happening.

Too early to tell on Sunday but I think they get all 3 in.


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MFS62 wrote:
Here are the reports for the rest of the week:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hazlebo01.shtml

If you are the Mets management, would you cancel games to rest the pitching?

What do you think they would do?

Later


(Merged from The Weather This Week., 9/24/2008)


why does that not look like the right link...?


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