According to more-or-less every weather report, today’s weather forecast calls for heavy rain and high winds at 4 p.m. today through Sunday morning.
Manuel, on the weather, as quoted by Newsday:
“I don’t trust the weather. Everybody says it’s going to rain and then the sun is shining. I’m telling you we’re playing tomorrow.”
I hope he’s right.
From what I can gather, if Saturday’s game is rained out, which seems highly probable, it will most likely be replayed on Sunday at 1 pm as part of a day-night doubleheader.
Here’s the other problem: today’s game is a FOX Game of the Week. So, if it is delayed for a super-long time, and the team decides to wait out the rain and play it later in the night, say, around 7 pm or later, and since SNY is not set up for broadcast, if FOX – who has the rights to the game – chooses not to return and air it, what happens? Will it be on television? If so, where? If not, ouch.
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If that did happen, isn’t Bill Webb the director of Fox baseball. So all they would have to do is put all the Sny stuff up.
I believe what they typically do is move the game to FX if FOX has other commitments.
This happened with a Yankee-Red Sox game earlier in the year when it was delayed by rain and FOX had a NASCAR race scheduled for prime time.
they should know plenty early what to expect, and it doesn’t look pretty. So why not be fan-friendly for a change, and make the call by noonish?
Oh, who am I kidding. They will wait until they collected all the $15 parking fees, sold a bunch of beers, and the fans are completely soaked and the dugouts are flooded before cancelling.
But look at the bright side. All the Philly take over folks wil have to get an early start, and will end up spending a bunch of money for nothing! Or maybe they will just come back for the 1:00 game Sunday. Should be plenty of tix available for that one.
Well like Manuel said, the weatherman dunno nothing. It couldn’t not rain until 7, and then wouldn’t they look stupid?
I think more Phillies fans will decide just not to make the trip period, then come and be rained on. (Especially if it starts raining in Philly a lot earlier)
What happens if it’s a day night tomorrow? Will SNY carry the day game?
Hopefully the broadcasting team is even in town…
I would think SNY would cover the day game. Ron, Keith and Gary are all in town as they have a 92nd St YMCA event at 8:00 PM…..
I’d rather have a rainout and a double header tomorrow. All the Mets have to do in this series is not get swept and with a DH that’s much less likely to happen in my eyes. Not that I don’t think the Mets can still win this series, but I keep looking at the Mets 2 games up with the next 12 against the Nats and Braves and it makes me very confident.
Pelfrey, Santana then pray for Hannah?
Nicely done . . .
Instead of wondering, and since you are owned now by SNY and Geico, why don’t you start acting like a real reporter and find out these things, instead of acting like a poster like we are? Being owned by SNY it shouldn’t be very hard for you to find the answers and inform us for a change. Start reporting and migrate above stealing all the other guys’ stuff.
Why do you come to the BLOG?
did someone pis* in your cornflakes this morning? you are a real as*hole son.
Yes, at 9:23 on a Saturday, he should up SNY and inquire about the contract with Fox, and what the weather contingency plans are based on rain, even though we all know it’s 99% likely we’d get the normal SNY broadcast for on Sunday if it was a makeup, and Fox would just have to wait.
i know what it is. its that time of the month. you know were everything and anything you do pisses off your girlfriend
I want the DH tomorrow, but that also means I have to switch back and forth between the Mets and Brett’s Jets.
Did anyone see this e-mail that Mike Schmidt sent to the Phillies yesterday, about how the Mets “know the Phillies are better” or some trash like that?
I’ll tell you, if they played the game half as well as they talked it, they’d rival the ‘27 or ‘98 Yankees…
can you believe schmuck, i mean schmidt. he knows the papers in ny were gunna run this story
If THAT can’t motivate the Mets to go out and spank the Phils today (or tomorrow) nothing will.
“…One pitch, one at bat, one play, one situation, think ’small’ and ‘big’ things result, tough at-bats, lots of walks, stay up the middle with men on base, whatever it takes to ‘keep the line moving’ on offense, 27 outs on defense, the Mets know you’re better than they are,” Schmidt said in the letter.
“They remember last year. You guys are never out of a game. Welcome the challenge that confronts you this weekend. You are the stars. Good luck. #20.”
Injured closer Billy Wagner of the Mets didn’t have much to say in response, except: “Did Gary Carter send us one?”
You know, I’m getting real tired of this whole “tough at-bats”, “patient approach” rhetoric that seems to constantly come from the Phillies fans and media. Yes, they see a lot of pitches- that doesn’t mean that they have superior plate discipline or make “tougher” outs.
They have 984 Ks and 510 BBs this season. Those supposedly free-swinging, undisciplined Mets? They’ve walked more (532), and- here’s a very under reported stat- have the fewest Ks in the NL (532). So, essentially, the Mets walk a little more than the Phillies, and the Phillies strike out 85% more often than we do. Not surprisingly, we also get on base more often (.339 vs. .330 OBP), get hits more often (.266 vs. .253 AVG), and score more runs (693 vs. 679) than they do as well. We also have more sac flies (45 vs. 32) and sac hits (67 vs. 57).
The Phillies have more power than we do. That’s it. They have worse plate discipline, have fewer productive at bats, and score less often than we do. I’m not sure how the more free-swinging, stand-around-and-wait-for-extra-base-hits kind of team gets portrayed as the “grittier” and more “situational” team, but somehow that’s how it’s worked out…
if ryan howard were having a season anywhere close to his career norms the phillies would be ahead of us in everything except strikeouts. the jerkoff decided to have a crappy season (other than in HR) the one year i picked him in fantasy. /cries
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