Ned Fengus wrote: ="Centerfield"]"If it weren't for A-Rod, he would have been at the Stadium getting ready." Typical bandwagon Yankmee fan - thinking it is one man's fault that a 'team" lost a series. that is pretty funny. OK, Rushed in after I heard the story breaking on the car radio and put on WFAN and heard Chris and Mike saying they should cancel Game 1. I listen to them most days (I'm in CA), and other sports talk radio, ESPN and Jim Rome. It'll be a long time before I listen again. I get the idea that Manhattan thought it was under attack again, I am really really sensitve to that kind of thinking but, after ten minutes it was clear it was just a small plane in bad weather accident. So why call for cancelling the games. Pretending like you care, maybe? Or feeling like you should've cared more? Maybe there were no big stories (ALCS g2 and NLCS g1 mean nothing in comparison, apparently) yesterday. NOW, if it were a car accident, should the game be cancelled? If the entire Yankee team died in a plane crash, in somewhere other than NYC mind you, should MLB cancel the Game? Hell no. Just have a moment of silence and play ball ferchrissakes. WW3 did not start and he was just some hired gun who yesterday "wasn't worthy of wearing pinstripes" (so said Mike) died. Tragic yes. But we need to shut the LCS down because of it? What if he commited suicide? What if he was drunk? What if he was just careless? What if he was just CARELESS? Then I hear on ESPN this morning one sentence before I turned THAT NOISE off - "some thought MLB should've cancelled the games" - WTF is going on? I'm sure they mentioned that the A's lost because they were playing with a heavy heart blah blah blah. (I wouldn't know, I've taken to watching games with the sound off.) Did The World Wide Leader in Hype run out of T.O. news? Just an acute case of hyperbole. And ESPN and others got it terminally. ps. DIdn't KC Chief Derrick Thomas die after rolling his SUV on Superbowl Sunday morning? Did we debate not playing the game? Maybe he needed to crash it into the Pentagon or something and then we could've got all excited and acted like it was meaningful tragic and what a great guy he was (and he was).