Dodgers, Pirates Washed Out
by David Young on May 12, 2011 8:28 PM PDT
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In an alternate universe one may have observed Dodger starting pitcher Jon Garland collect a two-out RBI single to right field in the second inning to plate Dioner Navarro, who had doubled, and stake himself to a 1-0 lead in Pittsburgh, but in the baseball universe nothing happened today as the game was officially called due to rain at the start of the third inning. This decision was likely influenced by the fact that both teams are traveling for tomorrow's games.
No makeup date has been announced. This might be a natural to put into the "schedule if needed category", but I suspect both the Pirates and Frank McCourt need whatever additional revenue might be generated from the gate of a makeup game.
Also, no word yet if the two nonexistent innings Garland "pitched" will count toward his incentive clauses or vesting option.
Tomorrow's game: 7:10 P.M. in Los Angeles with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Probable starters are Joe Saunders and Clayton Kershaw.
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Why didn’t those asshole Pirates give us a day game for get away day when they knew we had to come back to LA?
From Ken Gurnick
at mlb.com, raising the same objections made in the comments here.
“They should have played [this game] during the day,” Garland said, echoing complaints from both clubhouses that the postponed game should have been scheduled for an afternoon start with both teams traveling and no travel day provided.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I don’t get why this can’t be made up when the Pirates come to town for their series. If it’s a revenue issue, give them the home gate. If it’s a fairness issue, well we’re stuck playing the Angels 6 games a year while the Padres get the Mariners 6 times every year. So we already have fairness issues. We can’t just say fuck it for one game and do the easy thing instead of the complicated thing?
I suspect there is no avenue for changing the schedule once it’s made before the season starts. If they allow the Dodgers and Pirates to change it on a whim (whether the original is fair or not) then every team should have that right. It would tend to mess up the TV schedules, affect revenues, etc.
Bottom line, suck it up and play the schedule as originally drawn up.
Make up days are another matter of course.
Do the chair know we gonna look like some punk-ass bitches out there?
I understand the first part, but the schedule makers shouldn’t have fucked it up to begin with. In the next CBA since they already have tons of rules about schedules how about adding one where if one team has to travel over 500 miles the next day, that game needs to be a day game. Like I understand if we were just going to Philly next okay whatever. But anything like us going back to LA needs to be a day game.
As for makeups, I just don’t get why they have to make it difficult and can’t just have us play a double header when the Pirates come to town.
I agree about the original point which is this should've been a day game in the first place
Of course, obviously schedulemakers have no clue about an hour by hour forecast on any given day months in the future from when they are making the schedule. But it would have worked out better coincidentally if they had been kinder to the Dodgers travel schedule, as most teams do, and given them a getaway day today. It’s not like they had any more fans in the seats for the night game.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
I believe the home team schedules the actual game
and the Dodgers are not only team that has to do this, what about the teams that play the late games on Sunday back East and then have to fly out that night.
The Pirates certainly had the right to make the schedule any way they want and they had to fly out to Milwaukee (albeit a much shorter trip) but they decided to play a night game anyway.
of course they had the right and yah they are the ones that decide
I think the point is they didn’t have to. :-)
I know a lot of getaway games are scheduled that way because they benefit the home team, and if they benefit the road team too that’s fine for them. But sometimes home teams are better about it. Oh well, again, who knew what the weather would be like on this date. Could’ve been worse earlier in the day (but if it was, they could still have played, with more wiggle room).
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Speaking of schedule, i thought i noticed we play the Tigers again at home and a 4 game series in STL just like last year.
by DodgersKings323 on May 12, 2011 9:00 PM PDT reply actions
Oh well, at least they didn't have a huge lead washed away
like whoever it was the other day that had like a 7-0 lead (including a grand slam) washed out entirely. That had to have been more maddening.
At least I didn’t miss anything by being away this evening!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Jeff Passan
Agent Scott Boras tells Y! Sports he has no plans to negotiate a long-term extension for Eric Hosmer with the Kansas City Royals.
ROFL
hah hah. What a ... Boras.
Wasn’t Hosmer just called up for the first time a week ago? Sheesh.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Yeah
Insanely early for this talk. Does Boras mean no plans ever? If so, not bright to burn bridges so soon.
I guess I read this differently. I read it as he has no “current” plans to negotiate a long-term extension. Just like I have “no plans” for lunch tomorrow. But I may come 11AM.
Here is the quote from Rotoworld
Scott Boras, the agent for Eric Hosmer, told Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports Thursday that he has no immediate plans to discuss a long-term extension with the Royals.
So the “immediate” part was left out of the twitter post.
But why is this even coming up now at all? is my question
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Yeah did a little research and sounds like this stemmed
from a local sportswriter.
Kansas City Star columnist Sam Mellinger on Thursday suggested the Royals try to lock up Hosmer to a deal that would buy out his arbitration years and include options for his first three free-agent seasons
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-boras_hosmer_royals_contract_51211
So Mellinger started it, pointlessly. And Boras chimed in, in kind. ;-)
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San Jose will try to make their first Stanley Cup Finals in their 18 year history
Vancouver has only been to two Stanley Cup Finals, the last one in 1994 and has never won a Stanley Cup in 39 years of existence.
Boston as one of the Original 6, has the second most Stanley Cups for an American team with 5, Detroit has 11. They have not won a Stanley Cup since 1972 and have not made the Finals since 1990.
Tampa Bay is the team that has been to a Finals most recently, in 2005, in which they also are the team that has won a Cup the most recently in 2005.
The last two paragraphs make no sense to me. Could be that it is late and I need sleep or that I read this as Detroit is not an American team and in the last paragraph that 2005 is the most recent year that a team has been to the finals. Of course it is hockey.
Detroit has the most Stanley Cups for an American team, with 11.
Also forgot to say “Go Sharks!” ;-)
I like Vancouver too so I would root for them if they won the series but Sharks have never been to the Cup finals so it’s time!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Thats actually down overall from last year
but I know he was getting better at the end last year, and seems to hvae taken a step bakc. Perhaps by the end of the year it wil be better.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
as a Russell supporter, that does not fill me with hope
he does always seem to start out slow however
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on May 12, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Might have been mentioned in previous thread but if not, John Ely pitched very well
tonight in Vegas.
Ely 7.0ip 3 H 2 R 0 ER 1BB 3 K 0 HR 3.65
Hoffmann hit his 7th (!) (meaningless) HR!
Antonini (Hu?) didn’t pitch that well for Chattanooga.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
speaking of which
minor league post up (link below)
by Brandon Lennox on May 12, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
The real tragedy of the night wasn’t that the Dodgers game was rained out, but that regfairfield has never seen Brett Butler getting hit in the groin by his kid with a wiffle ball.
James getting kicked off AI was a bit lame.
by silverwidow on May 12, 2011 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
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