Late May in the Rockies? Let it snow!
From today’s DP :
On Friday into Saturday, snow fell throughout the area with some spots receiving more than 10 inches…. Snow from the storm broke leafed-out tree limbs across the metro area leading to power outages as downed limbs took out overhead power lines. As of Saturday morning Xcel Energy Colorado reported 1,368 outages in the Denver area with 102,907 customers impacted.
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Not only that, but baseball at Coors Field was postponed last night.
A make-up double header is scheduled for today.
Ummm… today???
Good luck!
The Mets and Rockies played both games.
Ever the flibbertigibbit.
The first game had an attendance of 20,737. The second game had 25,783. I watched via MLB.tv.
Remember when we were younger — junior high? — and talked about things such as the obliquity of the eclipse, etc.?
Are you telling me you missed — even disparaged those who attended — this game in which Roger Angell was forever memorialized?!?
“Roger died on a Friday afternoon, at a hundred and one. A snow-out (!) in Denver that evening required a doubleheader against the Rockies the following day. The Mets won the first game with ease, and the nightcap stayed close until the bottom of the sixth, when the hosts scored seven runs. Now down by eight, the Mets failed to answer in the next inning. After a commercial break, with the Rockies again at bat, Gary Cohen, the Mets’ peerless play-by-play announcer, without preamble began reading from Roger’s “Agincourt and After,” his account of the 1975 World Series, between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. More specifically, he had chosen the peroration to Roger’s rendering of Carlton Fisk’s twelfth-inning walk-off in Game Six, when the ball glanced off the screen inside the left-field foul pole at Fenway Park and landed in the grass (“a fair ball, fair all the way”). It’s the passage that alludes to “the business of caring—caring deeply and passionately, really caring” about a ball in the air well past midnight, and to the outpouring of emotion that it had unleashed throughout New England, “joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball.” From there, Cohen and his announcing partner, Ron Darling—the former Mets pitcher and the subject of “The Web of the Game,” another Angell classic, about a 1981 pitching duel between the then collegiate Darling and Frank Viola, a future World Series M.V.P. and Cy Young Award winner—spent the entire half-inning celebrating Roger’s life and work, with only occasional reference to the action on the field.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/watching-baseball-with-roger-angell
Our civil world is long lost ….