(Then again, what isn't a disaster-prone area? If it isn't hurricanes it's earthquakes, blizzards, Mississippi River flooding... but the point still holds.)
If you don't want your championship chances dented by a questionably neutral site for your rescheduled games, why not be a bit more proactive and work out a deal with a friendly city closer to home?
For example, no baseball could have taken place in Houston yesterday; but there's no obvious reason why Arlington (the Texas Rangers' home park) couldn't have hosted a game, with the Rangers at Oakland this past weekend. I assume the main reason it didn't work out was that the event staff there couldn't muster a workforce on such short notice (and/or that the evacuation and disaster relief had a ripple effect just that far in-land). But if the Astros and Rangers had made some contingency deal, who knows?
Side note to a spoiled athlete or two: Your own fans got washed out; many of them lost their homes. OMFG, you have to play "83 road games" instead of 81? - the tragedy doesn't quite compare.
Posted by Matt Bruce at September 15, 2008 10:12 AM(and/or that the evacuation and disaster relief had a ripple effect just that far in-land)
Isn't this likely to come up more often than not; for any city affected by a natural disaster, the most likely other city to also be affected is the closet one.
Posted by: Kubi at September 19, 2008 05:48 AM