I believe the Cleveland Indians played some early season baseball last year at Miller Park in Milwaukee because of snow in Cleveland. The Brewers are on the road for a while. Maybe they’ll play here and I can go to the game.

when the Marlins played the Cubs at Comisky Park, the Marlins got a big rooting section of White Sox fans. As most of you know, The White Sox fans and Cubs fans dislike each others’ teams.

if we do have to make up one game at the end of the season, with playoffs on the line, i’d feel good about our chances, assuming the Cubs are clinched for the playoffs. not only would the be more worried about lining up their rotation for the playoffs, but i wouldn’t be surprised if they sat some starters, too.

This looks wicked, be careful.

The tickets sold for Friday’s and Saturday’s games will be good for whenever those games are made up.
Since Sunday afternoon’s game was already scheduled, tickets sold for Fri & Sat’s games can’t be used there. You will use your Sunday tickets for Sunday afternoon’s game. The first make up game will use Friday’s tickets and the second one will use Saturday’s.

That could be both games of a Monday double header or maybe even the second game of a Sunday double header and one Monday game.

Or if they postpone the games even more… whenever they are made up, the first MAKE UP game will always use Friday’s tickets and the second one will use Saturday’s.

They have their own rain problems

Seriously though. Houston would not become a disaster area unless something REALLY BIG hit. A Cat 2 hitting Houston is not much a of problem. Houston is not really a coastal city so it’s not as bad as say New Orleans or Galveston, which always seems to take the brunt of any storm that comes Houston’s way. Besides, if some people are without power, they are going to need something fun to do What better way to spend your power outage day than at the baseball park? :)

I think McLane absolutely did the best he could, and I’m sure most Houston fans agree that he should have done everything possible to keep the game in Houston. As an aside, what MLB is doing is an insult to Houston and the disaster which occurred, IMO. There was no way to anticipate or plan for what happened. Up until the last 48 hours or so before the hurricane hit, there was considerable uncertainty as to where the hurricane would hit exactly and what the damage would be. And uncertainty over the actual impact on Houston existed until only hours before it hit…because a change of 30 miles or so in where the Hurricane landed would make a huge difference. Holding out the possibility of playing the game on Sunday and Monday was optimistic but not unrealistic.

The reason to wait has nothing to do with short-sightedness, as Galvan316 is so quick to presume—in fact, just the opposite. It has to do with the fact that you can’t predict outcomes, so why jump the gun? How many different scenarios for Ike’s landfall (and Dolly’s, and Gustav’s) have we endured down here? The fact that it did affect Houston could not be assumed until it ultimately occurred. And as implied by other fans, from an infrastructure and organizational standpoint, we are generally fairly well-prepared to deal with these storms, since we do so to some degree every year.

Last year, for Rita, my area (about 1.5 hours NW of Houston) went on high alert. The College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A & M University was converted into essentially an enormous M.A.S.H. unit, and all local hospitals required all personnel to stay in-house as well. While we did receive a modest number of evacuees, the impact on this area was non-existent. We didn’t receive a. Single. Drop. Of. Rain.

What would have been the hue and cry had McLane responded similarly to this threat, and agree to move the games early, only to have the storm veer east? You just never know what these things will do. THAT’S why you wait.