Comments on: Game postponed by rain

By: Mark Baker

Mark Baker — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:43:41 +0000

“They wait for the fans to file in, pay parking and concessions, and then donâ€™t let anyone know itâ€™s cancelled until theyâ€™ve already contributed to the coffers.”

As much as I hate the Yankees profit machine, this isn’t true.

First, the parking isn’t owned by the Yanks and they don’t make a dime from it. Because the Yanks don’t have their own lot is the reason why they got the city to build them a VIP one for the new stadium.

Second, the canceling of games due to inclement weather is due to the ridiculous scheduling done by MLB. Because its so difficult to reschedule games, they have to do their best to get a game in – that unfortunately means dragging you all to the stadium and then telling you an hour in that the game’s been called.

By: Micky#7--Old Ranger

Micky#7--Old Ranger — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:23:13 +0000

Laura @ 5:53 pre thread.
Yes, we have two guys at AAA to play 1st base;
Eric Duncan (23) hitting about .258/.374/.416, ops.790.
Juan Miranda (25+/-) hitting; .267/.389/.367, ops. 756.
Eric is the better defender and is starting to come around. The word on Juan is; he can’t hit Lefties(very well) and his glove is Jason like. 27/08.

By: Sick of It

Sick of It — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:50:21 +0000

Kevin and David: I know other teams do it too (see Mets last week), but it does not matter—they are all wrong!

By: Drive 4-5

Drive 4-5 — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:49:06 +0000

I’m a HUGE National League fan…for tonight:)

The Nats & Phils hold leads over the Orioles and Blue Jays.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:48:19 +0000

David I agree with you here, but they did it in Detroit as well. This a baseball wide problem as the owners are just looking for a way to make a profit and will screw the fans any way they can. It is honestly wrong what they are doing to the fans. What are they going to do when fans get onto their scheme?

By: Pepitone

Pepitone — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:42:00 +0000

...or maybe a vacant lot in Yonkers?

By: Nick in SF

Nick in SF — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:40:40 +0000

And hey Mark Alan, how about a link to show that cap you’re talking about? I have a The Franchise Yankee cap, but it’s just the regular interlocking NY.

By: David

David — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:40:28 +0000

Sick of It, huge props for doing that. I cannot understand what the Yankees were thinking. I’m no meteorologist, but I went on weather.com this afternoon, went on the hour by hour Bronx forecast, and every hour of the day/night until tomorrow lists as something like 90% chance of precipitation. And they needed until 7:05 (comical that this is when they decide it needs to be canceled) to tell there wasn’t going to be a window to play it? What idiots. They should be ashamed the way they treated the fans on this one and they should issue an apology. No excuses. They were well aware this game wasn’t going to be played tonight and they mislead fans to think there was a chance of it being played. That’s bordering on fraud.

By: Fredo Corleone

Fredo Corleone — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:38:52 +0000

“So the vaunted Cleveland starters have already given up 2 to Cincy”

1st earned runs in 50+ innings for any Tribe pitcher not named Betancourt…..and it’s a AAA guy (Sowers) that is throwing. Reds may as well strike while they can before the Tribe pitches major leaguers again.

By: pat

pat — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:37:43 +0000

Girardi said with Mike and Dog this afternoon they don’t want to skip IPK’s turn.

When do they need a 5th starter next? Could they have decided to send him to AAA Tuesday to make room for Alex and let IPK pitch a few more starts down there until they need a 5th starter again?