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Originally Posted by The Wolf
They have to end the game, NO MATTER WHAT, if the weather conditions are unsafe. It's not a choice; they have to end it.
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Umpires DO. NOT. CALL. GAMES. THAT. QUICKLY. PERIOD. If the biblical storm you're ranting about was coming in, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE STARTED THE GAME. It would have been postponed BEFORE THE OPENING PITCH. It would have been postponed HOURS before any fans WALKED IN THE STADIUM.
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Originally Posted by The Wolf
I feel like I'm having a discussion with small children. When conditions are unsafe - not borderline, but unsafe, and yes they get that way, I've been there - they have to call the game. They have no choice. You get a nearby lightning strike or hard hail or pounding rain and the situation is clearly unsafe and the game is called.
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MOD EDIT: Removed the personal attacks and gave an Infraction as a result. I've also removed inflammatory and aggressive language at several points throughout the post.
Lightning strikes and hail are a regular part of rain delays. TV networks always get a kick out of showing the players getting startled by lightning while they're sitting in the dugout during the rain delay. To say those games are automatically called just [Snipped] has no basis in reality. That may be true at little league games where there's no cover for spectators or players, but it is certainly nowhere close to being true at higher levels of professional ball, and to imply it would even be considered at the major league level is just [Snipped] misguided. Unsafe conditions bring about a standard rain delay, nothing more and nothing less. You might as well say games have to be called when there's an eclipse or a full moon [Snipped] to support your [Snipped] theory that you want to continue clinging to for some unknown reason.