04/18/24
April 09, 2007
Cleveland vs Anaheim...in Milwaukee:
Due to the weather in Cleveland, the Indians/Anaheim series will be played in a neutral site.
I'm tempted to go for the sheer strangeness of it all.
posted by drezdn at 01:35 PM on April 09, 2007
Finally, Milwaukee baseball fans get to see two winning teams play each other right there in Miller Park.
posted by diastematic at 01:50 PM on April 09, 2007
I'm sorry, but Milwaukee is anything but "neutral". That simply doesn't inspire the requisite amount of fear needed to prevent loved ones from going there.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 02:05 PM on April 09, 2007
drezdn, go. I went to the Florida/Expos game in the Cell in 2004, and it was weird, surreal fun. Of course the Marlins were both chasing the Cubs for the Wild Card and fresh off of beating them in 2003, so the Pale Hose fandom was taking joy in rooting for them. I doubt that will happen as much as with this one.
posted by stevis at 02:49 PM on April 09, 2007
Note to admins: Please replace the link I provided with this one. It's a permanent one that will last beyond today.
posted by grum@work at 05:21 PM on April 09, 2007
This is just stupid. There is no reason that the Indians (and Cubs, White Sox, Mets, Yankees, and Red Sox) can't start every season on the road for a 3-city tour to lessen the chances that games will get snowed out or be played in very cold temperatures.
posted by bender at 09:19 PM on April 09, 2007
Or better yet, maybe they should build stadiums with retractable roofs, like in Milwaukee. Miller Park is a hell of a place to catch a ball game. And games are never rained/snowed/frozen out.
posted by rocketman at 09:36 PM on April 09, 2007
This is just stupid. There is no reason that the Indians (and Cubs, White Sox, Mets, Yankees, and Red Sox) can't start every season on the road for a 3-city tour to lessen the chances that games will get snowed out or be played in very cold temperatures. How is this fair to the warm weather/dome teams that you expect to host these games? If they have all these early season home games, they're going to be on the road come June, July, and August, when baseball crowds are much bigger. The teams you mentioned are all in the upper third of revenues already in MLB, with the possible exception of the Cleveland ball club, and now you want to increase that advantage by giving them more prime home dates, I don't think so.
posted by tommybiden at 09:44 PM on April 09, 2007
Even though Wendy Selig-Preib no longer owns the Brewers, and even though Miller Park is the closest domed stadium to Cleveland, I still find it just a bit fishy that Milwaukee just happens to be the site of this "home game". Don't mind me; I'm just bitter about the Tribe losing three home games. While he's at it, perhaps Bud can just declare four ties in lieu of actually playing the Seattle series.
posted by avogadro at 10:19 PM on April 09, 2007
Avogadro- Actually they only choose MKE after looking at Houston and Tampa/St. Pete supposedly didn't have enough 5-star hotel rooms needed for two visiting teams at this time. Additionally, the Brewers have to give all monies for this to MLB and the Indians get remimbursed by the league for these games. Side note: There were 19,000 at Tuesday's game, Wednesday's game will be less as there is 4-7 inches of snow expected. Good espn link here: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2832830 BTW, the Brewers played in front of 11,000 in Florida and would be happy with 19,000 on a Tuesday night.
posted by mrholty at 11:59 AM on April 11, 2007
In case someone is curious, the last time a game was played at a neutral site was September 14th 2004 (due to Hurricane Ivan rampaging through Florida at the time).