The Mets have a chance to do the right thing and to do it right now.
All too often teams wait until the last minute before calling a game. They’ll have a lousy forecast, yet make the fans come out there, pay for parking—which is not refundable—and concessions and then call the game. The forecast is terrible for tonight and it’s the Phillies. If it does stop raining it will be cold and miserable. They’ll be back in town again. Call it now and make everybody happy.
Which reminds me. How MLB schedules its games in April is ridiculous. The Indians-Seattle series was a joke. How are they going to make those games up? For the first two weeks, games should be within the division as much as possible to allow for make-up doubleheaders later. And, schedule in the dome stadiums and warm weather cities early.
Some people would call it common sense.
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I’ve often wondered about that – doesn’t the Mets brass ever look at the Weather Channel? Seems to me you’d have a happier fan base if you called the game as early as possible rather than have the fans hear about it while in a traffic delay on the Throgs Neck or Whitestone bridge. Don’t think that is good public relations.
April sure hasn’t been a spring month here in Central CT – right now the temp is 30 degrees and we seem to be having a little sleet falling from the sky.
MLB is really derelict to their fans (again) when they don’t take weather into consideration in their early season schedules. Any teenager with a laptop could do that job for them in an afternoon.
John,
1000% agree that the game should be called tonight. Not only is it miserable out there, but an extra day off might help this team get its head in the game (they looked kinda “off” last night).
As for the April scheduling, I dunno. I can see why baseball would be adamant about making sure all fans have a chance to see their team at home within the first two weeks of the season. It might just be that it worked out unfortunately this particular season. You pays your money, you takes your chances, I guess.
– ryan
Its about money. the team may want it called. but the franchize may wait to make the extra cash. its the way of the world. come on 5 dollars for a hotdog. think about it../
@+ dollars for hot chocolate which they didnt have much of last night.. the water didnt get hot enough …
FWIW, the weather.com forecast says the rain will stop by 3-4 p.m. Now, what condition the OF will be in by then is another matter…
i know my outfield is under water… ;-]
the most heinous rainout related crime committed by the Mets and Major League Baseball was when I drove all the way to Queens from Springfield, MA for NLCS Game 2 last year only to find out when i hit the Whitestone Bridge that the game had finally been called.
John,
I have heard people complain about the April schedule in the past and again this year. I have also heard people complain that the world series goes too late (see this year). Everyone complains, but no one comes up with an aleternative. I was wondering what you think you could do. I think weather is just a freaky thing and you have to chalk this year up to a weird start of the baseball season weather-wise.
Blame it on inter-league play. Like Daylight savings time. time to say its outlived its purpose.
Everyone talks about playing as many warm weather and inside games as possible in April, but if you’re Arizona and Minnesota, for example, and you’re fighting for a playoff spot, how many road games are you going to play in September because you were hosting the Indians, Mets and Yankees of the world in April?
Not to mention, the dome and warm weather teams would have to host a lot of September games too, because the weather switches back.
To Steve C. (RE: interleague play)
Interleague play and the unbalanced schedule is exactly why there’s this mess. IL play and the alignment into three divisions with the wild card has changed things dramatically as far as the scheduling is concerned.