MLB 2014 season thread

So this means ... what, exactly? They'll finish the game at a later date?

 

Game will be resumed Thursday in bottom of fifth before regularly scheduled game. 4:05 p.m. CDT.

 

Angels ace Garrett Richards wrenched his knee covering first base. He's been down on the grass for about 10 minutes. Gurney now being brought out. Bosox physical therapist in there along with the Angels trainers. Looks bad.

 

Since they're roughly 500 games out of first place, there's really no reason to get upset with anything the Cubs do but Edwin Jackson is Fucking. Awful.

 

Don't worry. This is the national cover:

 

For the three Angels fans outside California, that's a stone cold bummer.

 

"Significant patellar tendon injury," per Scioscia:

http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/08/21/los-angeles-angels-garrett-richards-patellar-tendon-injury

 

Major League Baseball announced today that Executive Vice President for Baseball Operations Joe Torre has upheld a protest filed by the San Francisco Giants regarding the calling of their rain-shortened game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on Tuesday night.
An examination of the circumstances of last night’s game has led to the determination that there was sufficient cause to believe that there was a “malfunction of a mechanical field device under control of the home club” within the meaning of Official Baseball Rule 4.12(a)(3). Available video of the incident, and conversations with representatives of the Cubs, demonstrate that the Cubs’ inability to deploy the tarp appropriately was caused by the failure to properly wrap and spool the tarp after its last use. As a result, the groundskeeping crew was unable to properly deploy the tarp after the rain worsened. In accordance with Rule 4.12(a)(3), the game should be considered a suspended game that must be completed at a future date.
In addition, Major League Baseball has spoken with last night’s crew chief, Hunter Wendelstedt, and has concluded that the grounds crew worked diligently in its attempt to comply with his direction and cover the field. Thus, there is no basis for the game to be forfeited by the Cubs pursuant to Rule 4.16.

 

Penny wise, pound foolish:

A staffing decision by the Cubs’ stadium operations might have made as big a difference as any “mechanical’’ issue in creating the tarp-related mess Tuesday night that led to the historic decision Wednesday to uphold the San Francisco Giants’ challenge of what was originally ruled a rain-shortened Cubs victory.

Sources said the Cubs ordered grounds-crew staffing reductions this week to cover recent “overages” in hours by the crew.

http://bit.ly/1qtqVyl

 

Got to pay for those monster scoreboards.

 

There's no point maligning some of the lowest-paid people in stadium operations.
Blame the ones who have been running this loser organization all along