Doubleheader Postponed

by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 7, 2007 8:37 AM PDT in Seattle Mariners Regular News

CLEVELAND -- Burned once by the snow, the Indians and Mariners aren't going to press their luck again Saturday.

Both games of a hastily scheduled day-night doubleheader at Jacobs Field have been snowed-out, the club announced Saturday morning. A traditional doubleheader will be played in its place Sunday, beginning at 1:05 p.m. ET. Gates will open at noon.

This is absurd.

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Not sure on the possibility

But if they manage to get the Doubleheader in on Sunday, would they also try for a Doubleheader on Monday to get all the games in?

I hope not or I hope it is against MLB rules because that would lay waste to both pitching staffs.

Absurdity is the rule of the day!

Beer...giving my kidneys and liver a job since 1990.

by Ben in Va on Apr 7, 2007 8:45 AM PDT reply actions

No.

That'd be stupid.

by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 7, 2007 8:45 AM PDT up reply actions

Thats what I thought

But I have already seen stupidity trump common sense in playing the game yesterday.

Beer...giving my kidneys and liver a job since 1990.

by Ben in Va on Apr 7, 2007 8:47 AM PDT up reply actions

That's true.

Man, when it comes to Cleveland, Drew Carey has no idea what he's talking about.

by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 7, 2007 8:50 AM PDT up reply actions

I still place my bets on a doubleheader in Seattle

The two teams split the concession from the makeup game. Similar to what the team did in 2004 with the Royals.

by Robert on Apr 7, 2007 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions

Heh.

There was no revenue in 2004.

by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 7, 2007 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions

Cleveland will bitch

If they don't get home games when they're in a tight race.

by Graham MacAree on Apr 7, 2007 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions

I think he meant

Cleveland is full of rocks, not Cleveland Rocks.

Beer...giving my kidneys and liver a job since 1990.

by Ben in Va on Apr 7, 2007 8:52 AM PDT reply actions

WEAK!

Real men would play a triple-header on Sunday. Nine consecutive hours of pure, baseball action! Almost makes you wish we still had Ryan Franklin's rubber arm. Not the rest of him, just the arm.

by Slozbury Stouvre on Apr 7, 2007 8:54 AM PDT reply actions

Leave it in the crew cheif's bed

That'd freak him out.

by Graham MacAree on Apr 7, 2007 8:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Do it minor league style

3 games, 7 innnings apiece.

by Peen on Apr 7, 2007 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions

God

I hate poor planning like this.

Come on! I've had better runs in my shorts!-Rip Torn, Dodgeball.

by Coach Owens on Apr 7, 2007 9:28 AM PDT reply actions

damn

now I'm going to be bored all day. 3 days without baseball? This freakin' blows. I hate April.

by Matthew on Apr 7, 2007 9:33 AM PDT reply actions

Agreed

I guess I'll watch the Mets and college hockey championship.

by phil333 on Apr 7, 2007 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions

Go Spartans!

by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 7, 2007 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions

Bud Selig, gentlemen

Dave

Addicted to Quack, SBN's Oregon Ducks Blog

by David Piper on Apr 7, 2007 9:33 AM PDT reply actions

Yeah,

get rid of Selig already, he's over 70 years old for crying out loud!

Come on! I've had better runs in my shorts!-Rip Torn, Dodgeball.

by Coach Owens on Apr 7, 2007 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions

Aside to what has happened to the financial state

of the game, I think that Selig has done a decent job as commissioner and certainly he had nothing to to do with the schedule. I am more worried about after he leaves when the players and owners both try to take advantage of the new commish.

And not to start anything political, but I have heard that a man in a certain white building in the nations capital has made it known that he would like to run the sport.

by Robert on Apr 7, 2007 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions

God dammit

He's already ruined so much in my life, must he take my greatest passion, too? :-)

by jimmimoose1 on Apr 7, 2007 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions

I'm confused about scheduling

Aren't things supposed to be balanced against non-division opponents? We play the Indians 7 times, the White Sox 8 times, the Orioles 9 times and the Yanks 10 times? What the heck is up w. that???

by phil333 on Apr 7, 2007 9:55 AM PDT reply actions

Even better:

2007 schedule:

Oakland Athletics:
6 games vs. New York Yankees
10 games vs. Tampa Bay Devil Rays

Seattle Mariners:
10 games vs. New York Yankees
7 games vs. Tampa Bay Devil Rays

by cynthia2003 on Apr 7, 2007 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions

Is there any logic to this?

Will we play the Devil Rays 10 times next year and the Yanks 7? Maybe this is what happens when you don't let that husband-wife team do the schedules anymore, the team that had been doing it for like 20+ years.

by phil333 on Apr 7, 2007 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Three games cancelled.

Dumbest thing I've seen in a while.

by ThundaPC on Apr 7, 2007 10:57 AM PDT reply actions

Better them cancelled

Than trying to play in this garbage.

by Graham MacAree on Apr 7, 2007 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions

Yea

That's what I was trying to get at. Can't wait for this team to get out of Cleveland.

by ThundaPC on Apr 7, 2007 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions

This just in

Gil Meche is losing. Solo Homerun by Detroit's Gary Sheffield in the first.

by ThundaPC on Apr 7, 2007 11:18 AM PDT reply actions

Meche is losing

by Robert on Apr 7, 2007 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions

This is great

I'm getting the entertainment that comes from watching Gil pitch without the horrible knowledge that the Mariners are going to lose as a direct result.

by Graham MacAree on Apr 7, 2007 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions

Mechian ERA

Before: 1.23 ERA

After: 4.72 ERA

The force is working itself back into balance.

by ThundaPC on Apr 7, 2007 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Hey Meche!

Your a disappointment to your father

by Robert on Apr 7, 2007 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions

According to Yahoo

We can look forward to a triple header tomorrow. Two of the games will happen at the same time, one with Weaver vs. Carmona, the other with Mateo vs. Carmona.

Hot potato is an entirely different game when you're starving

by Mariner John on Apr 7, 2007 11:35 AM PDT reply actions