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What a friggin mess ...

Frayed Knot Sep 25 2008 08:58 AM

the weather not the team. Well the team too, but that's a story for a different thread. - Tonight's game sounds like it'll be a certain washout and no days off for us or the Cubs to make it up - Friday & Saturday looking only marginally better, plus anything that affects NYC is likely to cover Philadelphia as well. At least on Saturday you have an entire day's window to get the game (or games) in. At least Milwaukee gets their games in. - Any Met-Marlin or Phils-Nats rainouts that can't be done on Saturday will be made up as Sunday DHs (assuming it doesn't rain then too). Great, we didn't have enough pitching problems. - Any **IF Necessary* Met-Chicago matchup will need to be a Monday makeup; betcha the Cubbies will love that ... OTOH, they'll have ZERO incentive to burn any pitchers two days before the start of playoffs. Ditto any Phils-Nats game although Washington won't care as much. - Then any tie-breakers that result from all that mess (and more than one is possible!) would have to go on Tuesday. Brews @ Mets Tuesday noon then Mets/Brews @ Phils Tuesday night??? - And then there's the possibility of more than one game rained out. Plus throw in the scenario where a late run by Houston gets them into the mix and THEY still have one rainout game to make up and it's with the Cubs!! And you know the folks down in Houston are going to be complaining about why these east coast games aren't being moved to neutral site locations after theirs was transported to Wrigley-north based on the notion that the playoff sked can't be delayed. They were already convinced that they were screwed over because they were Houston and not one of the favored notheast teams.

HahnSolo Sep 25 2008 09:02 AM

Given the fact that teh Cubs will probably not want to come back on Mondya, I think they will do all they can to get tonight's game in.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 25 2008 09:06 AM

You know what? I think if this worst-case scenario plays out, it will be pretty cool. If only it wasn't affecting a race that the Mets were involved in. I can't imagine that the Mets and Brewers would play a day game at Shea on Tuesday and then the winner would have to go to Philadelphia to play a game that same night. I think they'd have to push into Wednesday and delay the start of the NLDS. (Or would Bud Selig dare to have the Phillies in Queens to play the winner of Mets-Brewers in the second game of a three-team doubleheader? That would lead to this quirk: The Mets last game, at least in the regular season, at Shea Stadium could end up with the Phillies as the home team! It seems unlikely, but you never know what Bud Selig will dream up.)

AG/DC Sep 25 2008 09:10 AM

Simpleton view: mo rain = mo Santana.

Frayed Knot Sep 25 2008 09:11 AM

I don't even know who won the home-field flip in a Phils/Brewers scenario, I was just throwing it out there. Bud could lobby to move the whole mess to a neutral site dome - but can't you just hear the conversation between him and Fred as he tries to take the final Shea sell-out and all the accompanying hoopla away from Queens? And, again, the screaming coming from East Texas if he doesn't.

Frayed Knot Sep 25 2008 09:14 AM

="AG/DC"]Simpleton view: mo rain = mo Santana. Santana's pitching once through the end of the regular season (I was hoping to not use him at all) and mo rain only means his start could get pushed later which means less Santana in round 1

AG/DC Sep 25 2008 09:23 AM

Well, it's a simpleton view. Round 1 may not come at all. And, if the season ends by squeezing games in amidst a series of rainouts, a simpleton can see Manuel considering something crazy.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 25 2008 09:31 AM

Or, if we can somehow arrange to keep having four days of downpour followed by one day of sunshine in a repeating cycle, then Santana can start all four remaining games of the regular season!