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Post by crashtest on Aug 4, 2008 23:34:42 GMT -5
I know the future of the universe depends on the fncking Cubs winning the WS this year, but playing in lightning is stupid. Remember the story of Bob Aspromonte and Bill Bradley. Billy was a 10 year old little leaguer who was blinded when struck by lightning at baseball practice. It fried his corneas and he needed a corneal transplant. I'm glad Lance said fnck it and ran off the field after the lightning stuck just past CF. There is about $100,000,000 of Astro flesh out on the field. Cooper should have had the balls to pull the team off the field if the umps were too fnckin'g stupid to do so. Ozzie Guillen pulled his team off because fans in Minnesota were throwing hats onto the field after a blown call. Imagine that --- hats, lions and tigers and bears oh my. But a few billion volts of lightning - play on boys. Atrocious decision making or lack thereof. Simply atrocious. Although it did look like the final scenen of The Natural.
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Post by crashtest on Aug 4, 2008 23:47:54 GMT -5
If the fncking Cubs were winning, do you really think they would be going on like this. It borders on the criminally negligent, On mlb.tv you can listen to the WGN feed where they intentionally left the field mikes on. It is still a ferocious storm at 11:50.
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Post by crashtest on Aug 5, 2008 0:07:31 GMT -5
Imagine if the ball Lee caught in the ivy went for a HR. The game would have ended a 2-2 tie and the game would have been replayed from the beginning.
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Post by crashtest on Aug 5, 2008 21:35:29 GMT -5
Imagine if the ball Lee caught in the ivy went for a HR. The game would have ended a 2-2 tie and the game would have been replayed from the beginning. I was incorrect on this. It would have been a suspended game which would have resumed from the point it was stopped before today's game. |
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Post by crashtest on Aug 5, 2008 22:03:39 GMT -5
OK, the rules say that once the game starts, the umpire-in-chief is in charge of when it gets called. Tornado sirens were going off. That means to alert people to take cover in a secure place. 40,000 people at Wrigley Field were not in a secure place. Granted, they could not all have been evacuated, but the event they were attending should have been immediately cancelled by law enforcement to facillitate their dispersal. I guess nobody ever thought that MLB would try to play through a tornado. When Wally Bell said that he did everything possible to let the game go nine, what he was saying was that he was giving the Cubs EVERY chance he could for them to win the game. Does anyone seriously think he would have let the game go on if the Cubs were winning? Cooper should have had the balls to have pulled his team off the field prior to the start of the bottom of the 8th, citing the safety of his players as well as the Cubs and the fans in the stands. Managers have done it all the time when the fans start throwing things on the field - that are less dangerous than lightning bolts. If the umps forfeited the game to the Cubs, then we could have filed a protest. I would have liked to have seen the commissioner's office uphold that forfeit. "No, we require players to play to the death". I'd bet if Biggio was out there (a high school teammate at ss was struck by lightning and killed while Biggio was playing 2B) he would have taken charge and pulled the team off the field himself as de facto team captain. Berkman looked like he tried to do something like that when he pulled the necklace schtick, but he didn't quite have the courage to "look like a sissy" and refuse to take the field. His post game comments reveal that such thoughts were on his mind - he had his Lord Jim moment and he, too, waivered. If a player or fan had been struck by lightning, he would have anguished over his (in)decision for the rest of his life.
Wally Bell, crew chief, now comes across as a flawed Captain Bligh or Captain Queeg - if not an utter stooge and patsy for the Cubs.
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Post by south on Aug 6, 2008 15:48:30 GMT -5
Wally Bell continues to be my least favorite ump in the business, though he might have gotten some influence from good ol commish on the issue. For all the talk about how he has to do his hardest to get 9 innings in, how often do we see that kind of persistence? I've seen a lot of delays called on some pretty light rain. The Stros aren't contending for anything (except perhaps a .500 finish), so it was kind of disappointing to see Coop go along with that charade.
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Post by texiban001 on Aug 18, 2008 14:26:23 GMT -5
What difference did it make anyway? Neither the Astros or Texans play well outdoors. I mean what is the point of having retractable roof stadiums if the roofs are always closed?
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