Yes - fans deal with rainouts and such. The Astros fans have to deal with a massive rainout. But MLB doesn't ask fans of teams to rearrange their schedules and plans for a rainout of a completely different game on a different date. We've had thousands of rainouts of baseball games over the years. Can you name an example of where MLB has shifted future already-scheduled games or series in a different city to accommodate them? Teams travel all the time, so I don't know that the disruption to teams is as important as disruption to paid ticket buyers. The least disruptive option is to play both series in Arlington, but I imagine the Astros would object to that, so the next compromise is some random neutral site. There's zero chance the league is going to move future games out of Arlington. It's just a completely unnecessary disruption for them. No - because this is an act-of-God situation, not a baseball situation. Fairness is nowhere close to the top priority here. It's life. If there were 8 days of rain in NY or Boston or anywhere else that cancelled a week of games, they'd have to adapt too. If you lose home games, that's just part of it. When the Minnesota VIkings' roof collapsed, the NFL didn't find them an extra home game somewhere else in the season. They just played in a neutral site and lost a home game. When Florida vs LSU was cancelled in Florida, LSU's needs took priority over Florida's - they actually gave LSU a free home game out of it. If a team has a situation in their home stadium, the need to rearrange is going to be mostly put on that team - it's just the way it operates. That's true of typical rainouts, hurricanes, and anything else.
You are acting like it would be an absolute nightmare for the Rangers and their fans to swap the home and road series when in reality is a very, VERY simple switch. Also, given how the Astros have been absolutely screwed by this scenario before I don't really have much faith in the process. I love how you mention the Vikings situation yet you conveniently forget the Texans in 2008. I guess you weren't around for Ike. The NFL moved three teams bye weeks and schedules around to compensate for that. I guess that league actually gets it when it comes to scheduling. Also, LSU didn't get a "free home game." They adjusted the year to year schedule so that Florida gets the next two home games in the series. Are the Astros gonna get these "home games" made up next year? Hell the **** no. So please get your facts straight before spewing nonsense.
@Major - so, MLB chose not to follow this line of reasoning: the goal is to get the games in with as little disruption to team/fans/etc as possible
Dumb. Tampa makes no sense. The Arlington swap made total sense - unless they believed it would rain out.
Just because this is how it is doesn't make it right. This isn't right what they're doing. But they're doing it. The Rangers can burn in hell, pretty much.
Let them keep their stupid home series in Sept. Hopefully that's the series we eliminate them from any playoff contention. All the better to do it in front of their fans
They cant get people to watch their own team in that area. If they made the game free admission they wouldn't get 10,000.
D/FW's #1 most-listened to show on D/FW's #1 most-listened to sports radio station is absolutely crucifying the Rangers for this. They know.
