Can we get some kind of damn curfew?!
Look, I love watching a baseball game go into extra innings as much as the next guy, but last night’s affair with the Padres and Rockies was just ridiculous. Last season I sat through every pitch of a Tigers/Yankees game that lasted until 3:32am EDT, after starting at 11:00pm the previous day. That game was preempted by a rain delay.
So what’s your excuse?
After 21 painfully boring innings (nobody scored until both teams scored in the 14th), Troy Tulowitzki finally put the Rockies over the top, and I finally went to bed.
You know who I feel bad for? San Diego. After playing 22 innings against the team that knocked them out of the playoff hunt last year… they lose. At home. After the game, the Padres had to get on a plane and fly to Houston Phoenix where they had to play the Astros Diamondbacks the next night. So how do you think they were going to bounce back from that marathon? That’s right, folks — they got spanked 11-0.
This only furthers my resolve for baseball to adopt some kind of curfew rule. 1am, 2am, I don’t care what time you list it as. After a while you need to let players to rest, especially when they have to fly out of town for a game the following day. You can have the teams meet again to finish the game IF necessary towards the end of the season, if the two don’t meet again. If they do, have a double-header… kind of.
NOTE: I got my teams backwards. My mistake.
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3 opinions for Can we get some kind of damn curfew?!
Rockies Chick
Apr 18, 2008 at 11:30 pm
“After the game, the Padres had to get on a plane and fly to Houston where they had to play the Astros the next night. So how do you think they were going to bounce back from that marathon? That’s right, folks — they got spanked 11-0.”
Correction: The Rockies went to Houston to play the Astros while the Padres flew to Arizona to play the Diamondbacks.
The Rockies whooped the Astros 11 to 5 and the Diamondbacks shut out the Padres 9 to 0.
Kenny
Apr 18, 2008 at 11:54 pm
The Padres lost, Jim, but they lost to the Diamondbacks 9-0.
Fact check.
Pat McRotch
Apr 21, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Dumb idea…
Games like that are few and far between. Neither of those teams will be a factor by September. They might play spoiler, but neither will contend.
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