I laugh at this story.
Yesterday it was pouring rain in Florida but the Twins were annoying and waited to rain the game out. So the Mets traveled 2+ hours to get to the stadium, and then the game was called.
Now they know what it’s like to be a fan of a major league team.
The Mets do this sort of fan-torture several times every summer.
Take today in NYC as an example. If there were a 1:10 game scheduled, and it’s about 9am as I write this – I’d be wondering if I should make the long hike out to Flushing. Do I “eat” my tickets? Do I potentially waste time? Why not just tell everyone at 10am so we can all get on with our lives?
Typically the Mets would announce that they were trying to get the game in, so I’d drive and pay tolls and waste time. Maybe even buy two hot dogs while waiting in the dry stands. At best it would be a crappy day to sit in the ballpark, and worst it’s a waste of time and money.
I regularly call for MLB to treat fans with respect and to call games earlier. Even if you could squeeze in a game today, who wants to sit there?
Do I feel bad that the Mets wasted several hours commuting? Not at all. Remember that mid-summer when it rains all day and they wait until 7:42 to decide to call the game.
I wonder if they paid $19 to park?
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Except most of these guys on the bus are going to repeat this procedure during the season between places like Binghamton and Rochester, and the people that refuse to make this decision are not the ones that were on the bus yesterday (well, yesterday it was Twins folk, but same concept)
This really speaks to the MLB schedule and the few days off and getting rid of doubleheaders on Sundays and standard weekly off days on Mondays. Also, the unbalanced schedule and interleague play makes it hard to reschedule a Sunday game against the Rangers if it’s raining.
I’m sure there is plenty of greed involving parking fees (which the Mets allow re admittance to the rain date, btw) and concession sales) but I think the scheduled red tape and all the MLB guidelines and rules and travel and mutual off dates are the biggest reason.
Someone needs to write a guest post about me and how stupid I look in my green Mets cap today. It is making its first appearance of the century – and is sponsored by Coca- Cola. We’re off to get wet and probably beer-spilled.
I CAN UNDERSTAND THE FANS FUSTRATION UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES BUT THERE IS NOOO WAYYY THAT MLB WILL EVER CALL A GAME EARLY.. FOR EX. THEY WOULD NEVER CALL A GAME AT 2 FOR A 7PM GAME CUZ ITS RAINING THEN. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IS A BUSINESS TOO SOO IF THEY WERE TO CALL GAMES THAT EARLY THEY WOULD LOSE OUT ON SO MUCH POTENTIAL REVENUE IN MERCHANDISE,CONCESSIONS AND ADVANCE TICKET SALES AND SO ON.
I think more games actually get played because they wait to make the decision, than get cancelled late
but as a customer it’s lousy. It’s like going to the movies and them having the air conditioning is off. Yeah they sold popcorn and you got to see avatar but was it enjoyable?