Evening start beats no baseball at all

After yesterday's post about the sacred sounds of Opening Day.... we were all left with nothing but our empty scorecards and our disappointment once the game was postponed. Opening Day turned out to be the rainy day that baseball's gods toss down from the heavens from time to time, but don't blame them.

(Rather, blame the owners who wiped out scheduled doubleheaders in order to get the extra six or seven paid gates per season to pay for the financing of the new stadiums that came into vogue after 1991, making it necessary to push the start of the season back to March so if there are rainouts -- voila! yesterday!-- there would still be enough open dates left so the make-up games wouldn't have to be doubleheaders, and.... but I digress.)

(Still digressing.... weren't the snow-outs in Detroit and Cleveland last year a clue.....?)

Anyway, the Yankees and Blue Jays wil try to get the season started tonight. No changes for either team, as far as we know now. Chien-Ming Wang will still go on the mound for the Bombers, and Roy Halladay will still try to torment the Yankee batters as he has done so well over the past six years. You can scroll down and read yesterday's post for the relevant numbers. Today, let's just play ball, already!

(And if it's true that the Yankees told Wang, at noon yesterday, not to warm up, and they never turned on the stadium lights -- meaning they knew the game wasn't going to be played -- then went and opened the gates and sold memorabilia, food, and drinks before sending fans home.... then shame on the Yankee front office. That's just low-class. Go ahead and raise the ticket prices and make us help you pay the salary and new stadium costs, but don't bilk unsuspecting fans out of their money on days when you know a game isn't going to happen. That's just despicable.)