Cleveland DH cancelled AGAIN!

JUST ANNOUNCED.....

Also..

MLB CONSIDERING CHANGING GAMES: CLEV MAY GO TO ANA TO PLAY
<HR style="COLOR: #d6d8db" SIZE=1>Maybe you can't change the weather. But following a week in which wintry conditions played havoc with its Midwestern schedule, Major League Baseball is considering changing the games due to be played in it. Specifically, the three-game series between the Angels and Indians slated for Cleveland's Jacobs Field on Tuesday-Thursday may be switched to Anaheim.
A final determination is not expected to be made until 8 a.m. Monday morning on a development regarded as "unlikely" by all involved in it.

However, if the Mariners and Indians still aren't able to play the Tribe's thrice-delayed home opener on Monday, and the forecast remains discouraging for the rest of the week, MLB may be forced to forfeit this one to Mother Nature.

"It's very unlikely, but we are looking at all possibilities," Cleveland general manager Mark Shapiro confirmed to MLB.com on Sunday afternoon.

"We've been in touch with Major League Baseball," said Angels spokesman Tim Mead, "but no decision will be made until the morning. They will continue to monitor the situation."

One of the issues complicating this predicament is the Angels' inability to simply exchange home series with the Indians.

The two teams are scheduled for two more series later in the season, both times in Angel Stadium, on May 8-10 and Sept. 6-9. Advance ticket sales project crowds of 40,000-plus for each of those seven games, making it a logistical nightmare to even consider swapping out those dates.

Thus, any switched Tuesday-Thursday games would become additions to the Angels' home schedule, attended by walk-up ticket purchasers and the home-visitor shares of the gate appropriately adjusted.

The Indians have been inactive since Wednesday, when they concluded their season-opening series in Chicago with a 4-3 loss to the White Sox.

Games last week also had to be called on account of cold, windy weather in both Chicago and Detroit.

Snow showers are forecast for the Cleveland area through Tuesday, turning to rain showers for the rest of the week as temperatures gradually climb into the mid-40s.

Honestly, its tough to blame MLB. Who would have thought that it would be cold in Cleveland in early april?

Now playing their next series in Milwaukee

CLEVELAND -- After snow wiped out Cleveland's series against Seattle for the fourth day in a row Monday, the Indians moved their next series against the Los Angeles Angels to Milwaukee's Miller Park.


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Snowy conditions wreaked havoc with the planned four-game Mariners-Indians series at Jacobs Field.



The teams will play a three-game series beginning Tuesday in the ballpark, which unlike Jacobs Field, has a retractable roof. The opener and Wednesday's game will be played at 7:05 p.m. ET, with Thursday's scheduled for 1:05 p.m.
The Indians, who had their home opener last Friday called after four innings, will try to get their first game at Jacobs Field in on Friday when they open a three-game set against the Chicago White Sox.
While snow stopped falling Monday, the grounds crew was unable to get the surface in shape after three days of snow. Faced with a forecast for sleeting rain, snow flurries and a projected high of 34 degrees, the Indians postponed their rescheduled doubleheader against the Mariners.
On Sunday, baseball officials considering moving the Angels' series to Anaheim., Calif., but then decided on the switch to Milwaukee. Indians players packed for the trip at midday.
A storm left more than a foot of snow in some places in the Cleveland area, and the entire four-game series against Seattle will have to be played at later dates. It was the first time an entire series of more than two games was postponed by weather since Hurricane Frances put off the Chicago Cubs' at Florida Marlins set from Sept. 3-5, 2004, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Seattle plays Tuesday at Boston.
After Friday's game was called, the teams hoped to play a day-night doubleheader Saturday, but that was put off by the spring storm. They then scheduled a doubleheader for Sunday, which also was postponed. With time on their hands, Seattle players at Jacobs Field made snow angels.

primetime21 said:

Honestly, its tough to blame MLB. Who would have thought that it would be cold in Cleveland in early april?

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HAHAHHAHAHAHAH...fantastic sarcasm!

How could they have this much trouble rescheduling games this early in the season?

primetime21 said:

Honestly, its tough to blame MLB. Who would have thought that it would be cold in Cleveland in early april?

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Primetime,Let me to you you Its still chilly here in April trust me and this weather sucks thats for sure.I thought it was Christmas Day instead of Easter on Sunday

This topic gets brought up every year. MLB does nothing to solve it. The East Coast teams should be on the West Coast, in Texas, or Florida for the first 6-10 days of the season, and or in domes.

I also think the season is too long when you start off playing in snow & end the World Series playing in snow!!!! Cut it back to 150 games.

I really could care less but that's my 2 cents.

It was warmer in Cleveland on Christmas Day than it was for Easter Sunday by the way! LOL.

Feels like I haven't seen a Mariners game in years...

game for tomorrow


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Honestly this scheduling shit is fucking ridiculous. I'm sure it's been said before but just look at opening day series, there is no explaination for it.

Tampa Bay @ New York
Florida @ Washington
Atlanta @ Philidelphia
Arizona @ Denver
Toronto @ Detroit

I mean, what the hell....