Game postponed? What the heck?

<nmhhawk DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Apr 30, 11:54 am, Cory <onyx... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 30, 11:29 am, "RickyBobby" <nasca... DeleteThis @cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> > The official rules say that every teams plays every Friday, Saturday,
>> > and
>> > Sunday. Where is the respect for that?
>>
>> > Did the Cardinals organization gather up at the clubhouse and have a
>> > private
>> > memorial service? Of course they did not. They took Sunday off.
>>
>> > We pray that this situation never happens again butMLBshould make a
>> > policy
>> > for a team refusing to play.
>>
>> GO PLAY IN TRAFFIC, ASSWIPE. Hopefully an SUV will run your sorry ass
>> over somewhere along The Loop.
>>
>> --- Cory
>
> When you loose a friend and teammate do to a sudden deathe the mlb
> rules don't mean squat. Anyone who thinks the game should have gone
> on. Should see his shrink.
>

I checked on the rules and they say that the home club has control of the
game until the first pitch is thrown and then the umpiring crew has control
of the game. So the home club can postpone a game for any reason
whatsoever.

The Cleveland Indians have the worst drunk driving horror story but that
happened in spring training in 1993 so it was different even though it did
involve all pitchers.

On 30 Apr 2007 20:49:08 -0700, Tom <drsoong.RemoveThis@aol.com> gave us:
>On Apr 30, 12:29?pm, "RickyBobby" <nasca....RemoveThis@cox.net> wrote:

>> We pray that this situation never happens again but MLB should make a policy
>> for a team refusing to play.

>Actually, douche bag, all of the players were at the stadium Sunday,
>to grieve together.

>If you had a mother, would go to work the day after she died?

I worked the day my grandfather died three years ago. I had an
obligation to be there, and I was.

I took a final exam on the day after my father died 22 years ago. I
played softball the day my grandmother died 24 years ago -- the team
needed me, and would have forfeited the game without me being there.

The Yankees played the day after Thurman Munson died in 1979. In
1978, the Angels played Saturday afternoon and lost to the White Sox.
Later that night, outfielder Lyman Bostock was shot and killed. The
Angels played Sunday afternoon and won 7-3.

I don't have a problem with them cancelling the game. But like Ray,
elsewhere in this thread, I don't see anything wrong with playing
either.

--
Lance

"In a world where the drones mindlessly plod along,
happily encrusted with feces, urine, vomit, snot,
grime, slim, smegma, sludge, disease, funk, pus,
STDs, cooties, and other filth, I'll risk being a
little too clean when coming into contact with the
same surfaces they've touched."
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