POSTPONED?!?!?!??!

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, SteveA said:

 

Sounds like a reasonable decision to me.

 

No one's trying to be reasonable here.

[Frobby]

18 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Today 2pm in Boston:  46,   cloudy, 16 mph wind

Tomorrow  2pm in Boston   43, partly cloudy, 11 mph wind

NO rain in the forecast for either day.

Field might be waterlogged though.   I don’t think it drains as well as OPACY.   

I’m slightly disappointed, but I’d just as soon have a game tomorrow rather than playing today and then having an off day.  
 

[InsideCoroner]

4 minutes ago, SteveA said:

It is raining right now in Boston and has been for the last 24 hours.

It's supposed to stop in the next few hours  

Weather.com says raining right now, and it's chance of rain for various hour time blocks are:

10:00 67%

11:00 17%

Noon 14%

1PM 25%

2PM 23%

3PM 5%

4PM 17%

5PM 24%

So 24 hours of constant rain saturating the field, may or may not stop by gametime.   Meanwhile, absolutely no rain in the forecast tomorrow.

Sounds like a reasonable decision to me.

 

Yeah, it probably is reasonable... but what a drag. I was ready and waiting. It’s like coming down on Christmas morning as a kid and being told you can’t open any presents until the 26th. I will watch some other games, I guess, but that’s still like watching other kids open their presents. 

[wildcard]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

Field might be waterlogged though.   I don’t think it drains as well as OPACY.   

I’m slightly disappointed, but I’d just as soon have a game tomorrow rather than playing today and then having an off day.  
 

Sorry,  can't remember a game being called because of clouds.   

I guess Crash Davis left the sprinkler on.

[SteveA]

5 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Sorry,  can't remember a game being called because of clouds.   

I guess Crash Davis left the sprinkler on.

Its raining there right now and has been for most of the last 24 hours.   But don't let the facts spoil your rant.

[wildcard]

8 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Its raining there right now and has been for most of the last 24 hours.   But don't let the facts spoil your rant.

The infield is covered.   The rain is supposed to stop by 11 am  and there is a 14-18 mph wind which should dry the grass.   Face it.  They called the game because of clouds.

[eddie83]

21 minutes ago, SteveA said:

How do you figure?   

I should clarify if they wanted to bring Means back on normal rest it pushes 5th starter up a day. 
 

If they were cute about it they could have saved one start from a 5th starter if they wanted to do that during first 3 weeks of season. 

[eddie83]

I’m pretty sure I think it was 97 the Orioles canceled Opening Day. It was sunny and real windy. I was off work that day and somebody told me and I thought they were lying. Canceled for wind. 
 

And ... here it is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1997/04/02/high-winds-make-orioles-opening-day-a-day-late/f4ae082b-b561-43e1-9c5e-b76d03e0ab39/

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

fwiw 

 

[SteveA]

5 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

I should clarify if they wanted to bring Means back on normal rest it pushes 5th starter up a day. 
 

If they were cute about it they could have saved one start from a 5th starter if they wanted to do that during first 3 weeks of season. 

I don't think they were planning on doing that.   Means was always going to go Wednesday in New York.   That is why Harvey is likely the starter in the home opener.

[eddie83]

1 minute ago, SteveA said:

I don't think they were planning on doing that.   Means was always going to go Wednesday in New York.   That is why Harvey is likely the starter in the home opener.

To be honest I had not checked what they were doing. Either way Harvey would have been on 4 days rest and start the opener. 

[Moshagge3]

I'm actually fine with this. I hate waiting another 24 hours for Opening Day, but I hate that day off between Opening Day and Game 2 even more. Now we get seven straight days of baseball. 

[eddie83]

The Orioles beat the Royals on Opening Day in 1997. Just looked up box score. I remembered they won and who it’s was against.  
 

The losing pitcher that day for KC became a future Orioles player years later. 
 

Who was it? I never would have got it. 

[OFFNY]

o

 

There are lots of other games being played today ...... real baseball (not exhibition) of non-Orioles games from 16 other teams is plenty to tide me over for a day.

 

o

[Philip]

1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:

So, it doesn’t rain in the south or west of the east coast?  
 

 

It’s not 25 degrees.

Seattle might have rain but they aren’t usually frigid.

I apologize for assuming that most people would understand that in April in the north it is usually still very cold and in April in the south it is usually not nearly as cold.