{"id":501757,"date":"2022-10-18T08:32:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mlb-didnt-put-fans-first-while-handling-yankees-guardians-delay\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T08:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:32:12","slug":"mlb-didnt-put-fans-first-while-handling-yankees-guardians-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mlb-didnt-put-fans-first-while-handling-yankees-guardians-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"#MLB didn&#8217;t put fans first while handling Yankees-Guardians delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2622d2d09c3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2622d2d09c3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mlb-didnt-put-fans-first-while-handling-yankees-guardians-delay\/#%E2%80%9CMLB_didnt_put_fans_first_while_handling_Yankees-Guardians_delay%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;MLB didn&#8217;t put fans first while handling Yankees-Guardians delay&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMLB_didnt_put_fans_first_while_handling_Yankees-Guardians_delay%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;MLB didn&#8217;t put fans first while handling Yankees-Guardians delay&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Ian O'Connor\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Paul Olden, public address announcer at the Stadium, is a worthy successor to Bob Sheppard, which is saying a ton. They called Sheppard \u201cthe voice of God\u201d around here, and if you spent half an inning listening to him in The Bronx, you understood why.<\/p>\n<p>Olden has a set of pipes himself, making his voice as easy on the ears as an expertly turned double play is on the eyes. But at 9:39 p.m. Monday, when he blitzed the gathered Division <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> fans with the words \u201cwe regret to inform you,\u201d they started booing him. Well, maybe they weren\u2019t booing Olden, a man just doing his job.<\/p>\n<p>They were booing the fact that this sudden-death <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> 5 between the Yankees and Guardians was being postponed on account of rain, after many of them had waited four hours in the stands, while getting wet over half that time. These were men and women here on a work night, along with children who were here on a school night.<\/p>\n<p>And after hanging in there so long in the hope that a baseball game would be played, the fans got played instead. Olden made an announcement he didn\u2019t want to make. Before he charged the adults in the crowd to drive home safely, he said, \u201cThank you for your patience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patience? Who said baseball had any right to ask its paying customers for patience?<\/p>\n<p>Listen, nobody from MLB showed up at the Stadium Monday night looking to give the fans a raw deal. Chris Marinak, baseball\u2019s chief operations &amp; strategy officer, explained to The Post by phone that officials knew earlier in the day that rain would hit the area around 7 p.m., right before the scheduled first pitch, and likely last for about 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/DSC_8209-6.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Yankees\" class=\"wp-image-24295674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/DSC_8209-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/DSC_8209-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/DSC_8209-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New York Yankees fans get annoyed waiting for word of a rain out when the New York Yankees played Cleveland Guardians in Game 5 of their ALDS.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/101722Yankees019CW.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Yankees\" class=\"wp-image-24295690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/101722Yankees019CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/101722Yankees019CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/101722Yankees019CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Fans still in their seats after the game was cancelled due to rain. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Yankees and the Guardians were fully motivated to get the game in, and to preserve the off-day afforded the winner to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to Houston and prepare for Wednesday\u2019s opener of the ALCS. Marinak said the plan was for starting pitchers Jameson Taillon and Aaron Civale to begin warming up around 8:30, and then to get underway around 8:45.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cBut then a second pocket of rain that had not been on the radar popped up,\u201d Marinak said. Suddenly the first pitch looked like it wouldn\u2019t be thrown until after 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt that was the time to call the game,\u201d Marinak said. He called that unexpected wave of showers \u201cthe final straw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fine. Professional weather forecasters get paid a lot of money to get it wrong all the time. The Yankees and Guardians wanted to play, MLB tried to thread the needle by radar, and everyone went home the loser. Those in charge of the sport had a plan, but as Buck Showalter loves to say, if you want to make the baseball gods laugh, tell them about your plans.<\/p>\n<p>The baseball gods were howling when this game was called, though there was nothing even remotely funny about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can Monday morning quarterback it,\u201d Marinak said on a rainy Monday night. He\u2019s right. Nothing\u2019s easier than ripping an institution for gambling on a weather report and coming up empty.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/101722Yankees019CW.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Yankees\" class=\"wp-image-24295690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/101722Yankees019CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/101722Yankees019CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/101722Yankees019CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Fans still in their seats after the game was cancelled due to rain. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ALDS_Guardians_Yankees_Baseball-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"ALDS\" class=\"wp-image-24295727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ALDS_Guardians_Yankees_Baseball-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ALDS_Guardians_Yankees_Baseball-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ALDS_Guardians_Yankees_Baseball-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Baseball fans wait out a rain delay for Game 5 of an American League Division baseball series.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But it was sinful that tens of thousands of people sat through the delay without a clue as to what was going on. Baseball left those people hanging, even though they had their own decisions to make based on work, school, and family obligations.<\/p>\n<p>MLB spokesman Michael Teevan told The Post he understood the premise of that point, but that baseball wouldn\u2019t want to be updating fans in the stands with what might turn out to be \u201cfalse information\u201d on the weather. A safe bet says a vast majority of those fans would\u2019ve preferred the updates, and the ability to process them and make choices on their terms.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, MLB made the absurd post-postponement decision to make the Yankees and Guardians managers and players unavailable to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>. So much had to be asked and answered about potential changes with the starting pitchers, about what the teams did during the delay, about how the extra day and late Tuesday afternoon game-time might impact both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Fans deserved those insights and that information. Baseball has forever had a hard time marketing its own beautiful game, and here it was shutting down all roads to a most compelling event \u2014 a winner-take-all shootout between the world\u2019s most storied ball team and a fearless underdog.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/DSC_8209.1-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Yankees\" class=\"wp-image-24295736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/DSC_8209.1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/DSC_8209.1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/DSC_8209.1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Fans throw debris onto hew field after word comes down that the game is postponed.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Teevan, a pro\u2019s pro, called it \u201ca fair point\u201d and said that the participants were eager to get a full night of rest after a maddeningly long and frustrating day, and that they would be available before Game 5. No, that isn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> manager Brian Cashman eventually made himself available to reporters only after The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman made a rightful and passionate plea to team spokesman Jason Zillo for the necessity of access. And in the end, Aaron Boone did confirm that he was making a pitching change from Taillon to Nestor Cortes.<\/p>\n<p>That major development demanded some comment from the manager, and it didn\u2019t h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en. If nothing else, baseball made the right call when scheduling Game 5 in the 4 p.m. window rather than the 1 p.m. window. Marinak explained that it would be tough to ask the fans and everyone else to return to the Stadium so early in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Finally someone had the paying customers in mind.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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They called Sheppard \u201cthe voice of God\u201d around here, and if you spent half an inning listening to him in The Bronx, you understood why. 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