I had this dream where I relished
The fray and the screaming that filled my head all day
It was as though I’d been spit there, settled in, into a pocket
Of a lighthouse off some rocky socket,
Off the coast of France, Dear

One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water here
Five hundred more were thrashing madly as parasites might in you blood
Now I was in lifeboat designed for ten and ten and only,
Anything that systematic would get you hated.
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The Tragically Hip
Nautical Disaster

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/mets-over-phillies-well-thats-an-interesting-prediction/

Magic number is 2 for that prediction to officially tank

Allow me to explain: if I’m the owner of either team, I’ve got immensely valuable property out there in that swamp of a field, and if a single piece of that property is injured because of these conditions and my handlers’ insistence that the game be played come hell or high water, I’m a huge loser. I have to connect with my colleague (the other team’s owner) and say, “let’s organize and take a nip at the institutional hand that feeds us…neither of us wants to accept this risk to our human property, let’s bag it and say a big FU to MLB.”

But this is what you almost never see in corporate America: the hierarchy is too entrenched for vision to become acceptable or even possible. Note that this is not necessarily about doing what’s right — I’ve long since given up on that with corporate America. It’s about doing what’s safe to protect the investment long-term. But if a Markakis, a Rivera, a Wieters, or a Texeira had ripped open an ACL or something in that muck, you can bet there would be after-the-fact howling from the affected owner to beat the band.

According to the Daily News writer who was in the radio booth in the 5th inning, word is that Bud Selig called the Yankees (and the umpires, presumably) and told them that this game was going to be played regardless, because MLB doesn’t want the game rescheduled to the one off day before the end of the season and the start of the playoffs, which would have been possible.

The Yankees, as they often do, announced that tickets for the game could be exchanged for other tickets, and that includes ticket stubs even if you went to the game. As it happens, there aren’t enough tickets left this season, so they have to be exchanged for tickets to a game next season. So whether you went or not, you did not lose your ticket value. That’s very cool of the Yankees.

What more could the Yankees/MLB have done here? It rained. Deal with it.

They have. It is called a retractable roof. You would think a $1.3 billion should come with a free retractable roof of some sort, but alas, no.

What does that mean? Buck was negligent in what way? Explain yourself.

Buck Showalter was also fantastically, maliciously negligent as well.

Unless the NFL has a better one, and intentionally is causing the rainouts so that by the time the weekend rolls around, everyone is so frustrated that they watch an otherwise inferior sport.