May 16, 2008
New York on Hold
Rain postponed the Mets-Yankees game tonight. Both teams have Monday off, and the Mets don't need to travel that far as they head to Atlanta. No announcement yet, however.
Update: This is just silly:
Tonight's game will not be made up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday or Sunday or as a single game on Monday.
It will almost certainly be part of a two-stadium doubleheader on June 27, 28 or 29.
I understand, from the Yankees point of view, they'd like to delay the game as long as possible to get A-Rod and Posada back. But two stadiums in one day puts a lot on the players. I wouldn't be surprised if the union objected.
Posted by David Pinto at
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This isn't the first time this has happened - I think it was in 2000, and the Yankees won behind Doc Gooden at Shea (and Clemens at YS, in the game where he beaned Piazza). I remember being pretty excited about it and thinking it was cool, but then I was also 13 at the time.
At the very least, it'll be something else for the NY papers to hype up that week.
Off days are treasured, though I'm surprised they aren't just doing a day/night Sunday.
Oh c'mon, it's fun. At least this Mets fan thinks so. Is a ten mile, police-escorted ride during the four hour break between games really a lot?
Oh c'mon, it's fun. At least this Mets fan thinks so. Is a ten mile, police-escorted ride during the four hour break between games really a lot?
Mets are already playing a day/night doubleheader against the Braves on Tuesday. I think they didn't want to either have 2 doubleheaders within 4 days of each other or have to play a game in New york on Monday when they have a 1:05 game in Atlanta on Tuesday.
Good memory, Kevin...it was July 8, 2000.
The inclement weather this weekend exposes another problem for those of us opposed to inter-league play. Sure these two teams play again and play in the same city. That isn't the case for most of these contests. Also, by adding these games it reduces games against other non-divisional opponents in your own league. Outside your division you end up with only one visit per year. Last year Cleveland ended up playing "home" games in Milwaukee and Seattle because of the current schedule. Interleague play is a big part of the problem.
You can torch interleague play if you want but that Cleveland debacle last year was more the result of (a) scheduling Cleveland at home in the first week of the season, period, not to mention
(b) scheduling a team for its only appearance in Cleveland during that time, and did I forget
(c) making it a four-game series to boot.