# World Series Delay: War at Home? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926 "2006-10-26T01:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/1 "2006-10-26T01:12:04Z")
What the fuck is this bullshit? Fox has hundreds of Simpsons episodes in the can, and we’re going into our third half-hour of this puke. For crying out out loud, Married with Children would be better than this lobotomized crap. Fuck, I’d rather watch FOX NEWS! Jeez Louise, that crappy show Ellen De Generes started on was better than this swill. ---
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/2 "2006-10-26T01:33:39Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] What the fuck is this bullshit? Fox has hundreds of Simpsons episodes in the can, and we’re going into our third half-hour of this puke. For crying out out loud, Married with Children would be better than this lobotomized crap. Fuck, I’d rather watch FOX NEWS! Jeez Louise, that crappy show Ellen De Generes started on was better than this swill. [/QUOTE] Haha. Fourth half-hour. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/3 "2006-10-26T01:40:59Z")
[QUOTE=Viscera] Haha. Fourth half-hour. 🙂 [/QUOTE] To my only responder, with all due respect, I must reply: Shut up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/4 "2006-10-26T01:43:20Z")
I give them credit for letting me stare at Jamie Luner for a half-hour while listening to Mike Shannon and John Rooney on my XM radio. That said, they couldn’t find a Family Guy episode to throw on? Heck, go root around in the Fox archives and dig up a couple of failed shows to fill time with. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/5 "2006-10-26T01:44:36Z")
I think FOX know’s no one really likes this show, and no one’s gonna get too invested in a crappy episode if’n they have to cut in and start baseball coverage. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/6 "2006-10-26T01:51:47Z")
Dude! For a moment I thought an act of war in the USA delayed the word series! But then I remembered the FOX TV series. I wish we could get the torches and pitch forks going and torch FOX, but that would not be civilized. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/7 "2006-10-26T02:01:42Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] I think FOX know’s no one really likes this show, and no one’s gonna get too invested in a crappy episode if’n they have to cut in and start baseball coverage. [/QUOTE] Yes, but how invested have any of us ever been in an episode of Married with Children? (I suppose it depends on what Kelley was wearing.) I can understand why networks don’t stay with baseball shows or baseball talk these days. Just barely. But the filler is such crap! I wouldn’t mind any decent, even though time-worn, comedy. Wings, Barney Miller, etc. P.S. One hell of a storm is coming through Denver tonight. If they don’t play tonight, they will likely be delayed again Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/8 "2006-10-26T02:04:57Z")
OK, somebody at Fox is reading my threads. :dubious: Hello, Simpsons! ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/9 "2006-10-26T02:07:39Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Yes, but how invested have any of us ever been in an episode of Married with Children? (I suppose it depends on what Kelley was wearing.) I can understand why networks don’t stay with baseball shows or baseball talk these days. Just barely. But the filler is such crap! I wouldn’t mind any decent, even though time-worn, comedy. Wings, Barney Miller, etc. P.S. One hell of a storm is coming through Denver tonight. If they don’t play tonight, they will likely be delayed again Friday. [/QUOTE] Mmm, Christina Applegate. I think the rain tomorrow is the reason that they’re trying to get this game in tonight. If tonight’s rained out and they can’t play tomorrow, they’re going to be forced to play Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. That puts the World Series up against Monday Night Football, which they’re loath to do. The managers, GMs, umps and MLB officials are meeting as we speak to discuss the situation. Fox Sports is apparently in on the discussion as well. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/10 "2006-10-26T02:22:42Z")
Tonight’s game has been postponed. Game 5 will be played as scheduled tomorrow night (weather permitting) at 8:25 EDT, with Game 4 being played Friday evening. Another rainout tomorrow would fuck a lot of things up. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/11 "2006-10-26T02:26:13Z")
[QUOTE=brianjedi] Another rainout tomorrow would fuck a lot of things up. [/QUOTE] I think tomorrow’s game is fine; this is a slow moving storm. I’d expect Friday to be a problem; perhaps they’ll make it a day game. Day, as in, 8:00 am. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/12 "2006-10-26T02:32:23Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] I think tomorrow’s game is fine; this is a slow moving storm. I’d expect Friday to be a problem; perhaps they’ll make it a day game. Day, as in, 8:00 am. [/QUOTE] I dunno. The concern all day today has been that tonight might be a rainout and tomorrow almost definitely would be. The upside to this: I don’t miss a potential clinching game due to work. The downside to this: my girlfriend is going to kill me, because she won’t watch the game with me and we were supposed to go out Friday night. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/13 "2006-10-26T02:36:49Z")
What rain? It’s not raining. Last rain we got was for about an hour and a half a couple of Saturday nights ago. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/14 "2006-10-26T02:38:26Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] What rain? It’s not raining. Last rain we got was for about an hour and a half a couple of Saturday nights ago. [/QUOTE] I hate to break this to you, but the Anaheim Angels of Rancho Cucamonga and Asia Minor didn’t make the World Series this year. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/15 "2006-10-26T02:44:45Z")
[QUOTE=brianjedi] I dunno. The concern all day today has been that tonight might be a rainout and tomorrow almost definitely would be. [/QUOTE] You must have another front coming in sideways. Heh. Yahoo gave me the weather for Saint Louis, Senegal. Pretty warm there. CNN says you’ll have rain through Friday. I generally figure Denver weather will get to KC 24 hours later, and Dayton 48 hours later. I guess I’m figuring wrong this time. > [@](#): > > The downside to this: my girlfriend is going to kill me, because she won’t watch the game with me and we were supposed to go out Friday night. OK. Here’s what you do. First, go out with your girlfriend. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/16 "2006-10-26T02:50:47Z")
[QUOTE=brianjedi] I hate to break this to you, but the Anaheim Angels of Rancho Cucamonga and Asia Minor didn’t make the World Series this year. [/QUOTE] I wasn’t under the impression that they had. I’m just saying that it isn’t raining. I see no impediment to having a baseball game. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/17 "2006-10-26T02:57:54Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] I wasn’t under the impression that they had. I’m just saying that it isn’t raining. I see no impediment to having a baseball game. [/QUOTE] Well, that’s fantastic for the Anaheim area. Unfortunately, the St. Louis Cardinals had the unmitigated gall to build Busch Stadium in St. Louis, where it is raining. Pricks. :rolleyes: If it’s raining in St. Louis today, it’ll be raining here in Lexington by tomorrow. And **Frank** , she’s the one that said “if they’re not playing Friday, we can go out.” It’s her idea. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/18 "2006-10-26T03:02:35Z")
Serves 'em right for stealing our Rams. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/19 "2006-10-26T03:11:32Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Serves 'em right for stealing our Rams. [/QUOTE] People in the greater Los Angeles area care about professional football? You ran the Raiders, Chargers AND the Rams off. (And the good folks of Cleveland could say the same thing about you stealing their team as well, since the Rams left Cleveland for L.A. in the first place.) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926/20 "2006-10-26T03:19:36Z")
Game 4 starter: Chris Carpenter. ::three days rain:: Game 5 Starter: Chris Carpenter. [sub]You’ll notice I stopped there[/sub] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-series-delay-war-at-home/377926.md?page=2)