Any estimate on the start time, so I can know when to duck out of my lab?

I believe first pitch is supposed to be at 1:05 PM.

By the way, the Blue Jays better hope Rolen gets back in a hurry.  If Scutaro plays every day, that team is really going to be in trouble.

All I can say is 1:05 EDT ain’t happening.  Tarp’s still on the field.

I think RAB is saying ESPN claims a 2 PM start.

Pete Abraham just announced that the game is being delayed.  I’m not really sure why because there isn’t much if anything coming down.  Perhaps, though, there is something on the radar.

I think RAB is saying ESPN claims a 2 PM start.

I’ve been hearing this as well.  So…4?  Haha.

it’s misty, but not raining here in the city…..my gut says that the opening will be drawn out though.

“I believe first pitch is supposed to be at 1:05 PM.”

Even ignoring the rain they have half an hour of opening day rituals starting at the supposed first pitch time though, don’t they?

nm, it’s apparently raining.  bad information from my coworkers.

Pete Abraham just announced that the game is being delayed.

Not necessarily due to weather, though.  There’s always some kind of Opening Day ceremony with like seventeen “first” pitches.

I’m hoping it gets delayed until 4. I have a meeting about the house I’m renting next year at 3:30 and then free time until my practice at 8. A 2 start time is right in the middle of my class and lunch time.

Converting all of my west coast times to east coast times was really hard on my brain which hasn’t done math in several years.

I live about two miles and a half miles from the stadium (in Inwood) and it’s not raining here.

so, anything of note happen in the offseason on this site?  whatever happened to the puppy face kid?

IE and Dave S, I wrote y’all on the previous thread.

Go Yankees.  This is going to be a fascinating season, however things play out.

I’m with you Frog.  My irony is at your service.

Just wanted to poke my head in and say “enjoy the heck out of Opening Day”.  Hopefully the weather cooperates.

I look forward to another season’s worth of entertaining and insightful observations from the other side.  Have a great day, everyone.

Frog, I’m interested as well, but won’t be able to contribute until mid May-ish when my semester and Track & Field come to a close.

I wish your proofreading had been, a minute ago.

You’re quite right about that, Frog.  Have no fear, that sort of thing doesn’t happen often.

Well, YES is showing a special on the 1978 season….

I’ll be covering the game for a test simulation for STATS LLC, today.  Very excited.

Rode out spring training in the mountains. Retired the skis around 4pm yesterday and am ready for the season…and now more waiting. Start. The. Season. Please.

What a lousy beginning… Oh well, I just hope the game starts.

Hey, at least it’s not snowing…...........

Snow, rain, Volcano ash, I could care less.  Baseball is back.  They’ll be plenty of games this season where you can marvel at the weather.  I’m just happy the Yankee season is about to begin.

It has been a long time since I have whined but…..I WANT YANKEE BASEBALL. I couldnt sleep last night and I skipped advanced financial management for nothing.

this march to a 1000 runs isn’t getting off the way i expected…zzzzzz….

According to the ‘Fan’ station on gameday audio, the rain has picked up.

FWIW, weather.com has in NYC “showers” until about 4PM, and then “drizzle” from 4 until about 10PM.

It’s stopped raining and people are cheering lol.

Pete Abe sez:

UPDATE, 2:17 p.m.: Nothing definitive yet. But it sounds like they’re planning to cancel the game and play it tomorrow night. I’ll let you know once I hear something.

Out like a lamb, my ass.

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/rain-delay-theatre/

Apparently it’s been called, so much for the Blue Jays radio guys who said it had stopped

Darn.

MLB.com’s listing it as PPD. Sigh.

What are your feelings regarding the number of wins this team is likely to achieve in 2008?

I am already on record as predicting 88 wins.

Mike Francessa, living in his own world, predicts between 92 and 96.

Stupid baseball blueballs…

Don, I will with pleasure bet you more than 88.

this never would have happened if the yankees could have played this game in japan.  stupid selig.

baseball blueballs indeed.

If rain was pouring down that would be one thing.  But there has never been anything more than misty drizzle.  Come on now, we’ve all been waiting for this day since November.

As for your prediction Don, I’ll bet you more than 88 as well.  After all, this team, with the same offense, will have better pitching and more intelligent managing than one that won 94 games the year before.  In general, I don’t understand how everyone feels the Red Sox will win 95 games or so with two good pitchers (Beckett and Matsuzaka) one 41 year old (Wakefield) and two rookies (Lester and Buchholz), while the Yanks are also-rans with Wang, Pettitte, Hughes, Kennedy and Mussina - most likely for half a season.  All I’m waiting for now is for Steve Phillips to declare that the Rays will win the AL East and the Yanks will get the first pick in the draft for 2009 one week into the season - that is, if they play any games.  After all, there is rain on tap for the next two weeks.  If three drops is enough to cancel a game, we won’t be seeing much baseball anytime soon.

If rain was pouring down that would be one thing.  But there has never been anything more than misty drizzle.  Come on now, we’ve all been waiting for this day since November.

Come on now, it’s Opening Day.  If I had a high-priced ticket for this game, I’d be mighty pissed if they didn’t postpone it and made me sit through a cold damp drizzle to watch it.  It’s warmer now than it was at game time.  It will be in the 60’s tomorrow with a similar chance of rain.  Like I said, this is exactly why they always schedule an off day right after the opener.

Actually, they’re waiting until 7:05, when the temperature is supposed to be 61 degrees and the chance of rain will be down to 20%.  Unfortunately, they’ve only got about a three hour window before more showers are supposed to move in, and they’ll probably use up most of that time with the pre-game festivities.

This whole thing is ridiculous.  I’m sitting right next my window, looking out on gray, albeit distinctly dry weather, and wondering why there is no baseball.

As a corollary, if mlb is only willing to tolerate bone-dry conditions, why does it schedule April games in New York?  Why not begin the season in places like Tampa or Toronto, which have domes or Texas, where conditions tend to rather good as well?

Why not begin the season in places like Tampa or Toronto, which have domes or Texas, where conditions tend to rather good as well?

They did exactly that for several years.  Gave it up when they went to the unbalanced schedule.

But you’re still missing my point—they would most certainly have played today if it had been the second or third game of the season instead of the opener.

The board at the stadium kept saying the weather was getting worse.  Anyone there aaw that the weather was getting better.  Since they decided that it would degrade to hurricane conditions, not a drop has fallen.  That’s three hours plus and counting.  I would have thought they’d get in Opening Day even if it were tough - the third game of the season they might have PPD’d… but even that’s silly.  How much less rain than none is good enough to play?  Very, very frustrating. My only explanation: another day of the same crowd buying another lot of refreshments.

Not a drop of rain has fallen in the last five hours. The absolutely could have gotten the game in. Absolutely.

Just wanted to poke my head in and say “enjoy the heck out of Opening Day”.  Hopefully the weather cooperates.

I look forward to another season’s worth of entertaining and insightful observations from the other side.  Have a great day, everyone.

Go F yourself, troll.

Just kidding dudes!

I just came back from an hour-long run in Ft. Tryon Park, from which the south Bronx is literally visible and during all that time nary a drop fell on my head.  Moreover, the ground was a bit damp but hardly soaked and that’s without Yankee Stadium’s state of the art drainage system.  Also, the weather wasn’t nasty or disagreeable at all.  If anything, it was slightly humid.

i went for a bikeride and was very surprised - it’s warm out there.

If tomorrow’s game is called or played in showers of any sort, some folks over at mlb are going to look very, very stupid.  My little Accu-Weather icon shows a gray cloud with a protruding yellow lighting bolt for tomorrow.  Yikes!

Funny. I remember going to a Yankees-Toronto game in 2003 when Halladay was scheduled to pitch.  It was his Cy Young year; he just owned us.  It had rained on and off all afternoon and just as I got to the Stadium at 7 p.m. the game was postponed.  I walked across the 155th St. bridge back into Manhattan in bright evening sunlight and perfect baseball conditions, wondering what the hell . . .?

The problem could be that after all that rain, even if it did let up enough to play, the outfield was absolutely drenched.
I don’t mind playing it safe and preventing an Abreu/Melky/Damon broken ankle on opening day.

How was the outfield going to be drenched when it didn’t rain that much?  Believe me, the team will play in far more dangerous/slippery conditions than today.

According to AccuWeather, it’s going to be cloudy all day tomorrow with thunderstorms at 6PM and 8PM.

The field can handle a metric fuckton of water. The light drizzle that hit from noon to one wouldn’t have been even noticeable.

It was a travesty that they called it. Nothing in the radar I saw before or after the game indicated any potential for heavy rain.

So . . .  why?  Seriously, I find this very mysterious, and always have.

I sense a conspiracy of the Yankee Stadium concession stands in collusion with the local bars across the street.

I believe old thurman knows the answer and will reveal the secret later this evening.

They hate me personally.
The only logical explanation.

I think Old Thurm gave up his cotton candy concession years ago, around the time he took a bite out of my hot dog buns. 

Sleepyirv, you too?

I suppose it was a good thing I didn’t skip class for a .. rain postponement.

I did catch part of the Dodgers/Giants game. I was specifically interested in the part of the game where the manager brought in one of the teams more effective relievers to pitch to only 1 batter with a 5 run lead.

My initial instinct was to blame Fidel Castro.  I’ll just bet he has a few undercover agents selling Cracker Jacks at the Stadium and funneling the money back to Cuba - which pays for Fidel’s medical bills.

That Santana guy sure can play….........guitar.
I frikkin E. I’m shocked that an overeducated academic like yourself has not or chooses not to reveal this ancient ritual of fan effing.
When the Templar Knights reached Jerusalem they ran into some Berber dudes, who of course were Celts who hung with the Jewish dudes, they started a band with, back when the Romans hired them, back when Rome had a good team,which was 800 years before the Templar Knights even had a DH. Or ugly Goth chicks,known as ugly visigoths, that sacked Boston got it together with the Olsen twins founded Cooperstown and invented the Radar gun.
Pope Joe Garagiolo along with the Count of Brewerville or Bud as the Stoners of Toms River christened him invented the WASPY OIL GUYS who toppled the Ruthian fair players.
So that is why it stays light longer now and St Patricks Day and Easter Bunny Day cause usually serene people to eat pigs and sheep and lasagna on a day that was a while ago.
Tuesday I shall reveal The history of the National League.
Still hate Jason playing first during a CMW game.
Welcome back MC. This is what happens when I work late, dont drink and need Yankees baseball.

I suspect that if there’s any renegade leftist Latin American leader getting involved w/shit in the Boogie-down, he’s from Venezuela, not Cuba. 

I’ve seen the photo-ops.

RLYW rule #17:

Never post at the same time as Ol’ Thurm.  He will overshadow you like he’s baseball in the Bronx and you’re the JV in Queens.

When it was still raining, they said they thought they’d get the game in.
When it had almost stopped, they said the Weather Authorities (Cashman’s baby daughter?) said the reports were now “less promising than they thought.”
When the rain ended completely for the rest of the day, they cancelled the game.
And rescheduled it for the only time tomorrow during which rain - thunderstorms, no less! - are predicted!
The only logical conclusion: can it be that they’re reading the weather reports backwards?  Can they be that dumb?

You’ve certainly earned your Duvel this evening Thurm.  I certainly look forward to trading stories about the origins of the NL - especially as tomorrow’s game will almost certainly suffer at least one rain delay and involve plenty of expert weather prognostication leading to the Yankees first game of 2008 ending at around 5AM, probably out of deference to the Japanese advertisers who will stuff a bit more cash in the Yankee coffers for ending during their prime time hours.

Speaking of tommorrow: Can we skip the Moose’s turn in the rotation?

He looked a little gassed after his last start.  I think the long season’s wearing him down.

Thurm, you are a great, great mind. I’m just absolutely blown away. That or you’re tripping on Nyquil all the time. Either way, props.

I heard the daily news makes discovered that hideki is some kind of porn conoisseur. I cant wait until the good people at nomaas create a photo of that.

daily news? hell, time has it that hideki’s got a massive adult video collection: http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/heroes/hideki_matsui.html

That’d be a great “discovery” by the News.

They could run it like they’re all shocked. It could be like the scene from Casablanca - “I’m shocked to hear there’s gambling going on here.”

As for the game, as annoying as the delay is, I’m pleased, as I was on an airplane coming back from California, so I don’t particularly mind not having to miss opening day.

Can we skip the Moose’s turn in the rotation?

They play 20 days straight and 33 games in the next 34 days.  Nobody’s getting skipped.

The forecast for game time is mostly cloudy and 62 degrees, with no rain predicted for the rest of the night.  It will be a might windy though.  It was 44 and cloudy when they called the game yesterday.

IE, I’m pretty sure that it was a Yankee decision, not MLB.  (They played in similar (albeit warmer) conditions in Baltimore and Philadelphia.)  Until the game starts, of course, then it’s entirely up to the umpires.

MC, your irony meter’s broken:

“He looked a little gassed after his last start.  I think the long season’s wearing him down.”

I think something more serious than the irony meter is messed up.  I never even saw that.  I might need to invest in some focus factor.