Weather and Baseball

Commissioner feeling the heat - with good reason
Al Gore is full of crap. The predictor of global-warming doom and gloom is way off base, at least in late October in frigid eastern Pennsylvania. Consider that when Major League Baseball called off its first makeup date of the suspended Game 5 early yesterday, the weather conditions were far worse than they had been Monday. Rescheduled again for tonight at 8, the forecast is also bad.

A cold rain continued all day yesterday with up to 30 centimetres of snow reported in an outlying area. The temperature at the ballpark by the scheduled game time was around 2C, with a wind chill far below zero. Add to that the muck factor. The tarpaulin that was pulled over the field after Game 5 was suspended has stayed in place and now likely covers a sea of slime.

The hottest place in Philadelphia these days is under commissioner Bud Selig's collar. Either the weathermen were totally taken by surprise Monday or the gods of baseball decided to play another cruel joke on Philly sports fans, making them wait another day � and another � to play the final 3 1/2 innings of a potential Series-clinching game against the Rays. They've waited 28 years. Hey, what's two more days?

So then, what do Selig and Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama have in common? Their public images have each been damaged by contact with Weathermen.