Evan Grant's got a little information, both troubling and not:
The weather forecast isn’t favorable for scheduling a doubleheader on Saturday. Hey, it’s not real favorable for playing a single game, either. This is the Mariners last trip into Arlington this season and with the teams having no common off days remaining, playing a doubleheader this weekend was the only feasible option.
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If the three games don’t get played this weekend, you can bet they will still get played. In Seattle. Over the final three days of the season. The last thing the Rangers can afford to do, both competitively and financially, is play fewer games at home than the schedule calls for. But if tonight’s game gets rained out – the chance of precipitation does not dip below 60 percent today; below 40 percent on Sunday – the Rangers will indeed be playing at least 82 games on the road.
Well this is a different way for a team to get screwed.
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Hopefully there won't be any Texas walk offs in Seattle
Janic - September 12, 2009
The Angels are the chosen team of the AL West.
You must accept this.
44FAN - September 12, 2009
The Rangers REALLY need to make the playoffs...
REALLY
lailaihei - September 12, 2009
Six game sweep by the Rangers.
w00tah - September 12, 2009
Sweet fancy moses, how would that work
The union can’t allow for too many doubleheaders, I’d think. Do they play at least 3 games, with a doubleheader on the 4th if it’s isn’t decided by then… and if the Rangers are mathematically still in the wild card chase they keep playing Seattle, one game per day, until they either get it or get knocked out?
And is there some scenario whereby the Rangers could win 6 games in a row against Seattle and then end up having to play a 1-game playoff against the Red Sox just to get the wild card?
It would be very disappointing to have a potential schedule quirk like this show up, and then the Rangers tank for 10 games and the end of the year is just the end of the year.
Man, I hope this gets really weird.
Spoomeister - September 12, 2009
I knew that Texas was boned.
But this is entirely new manner.
ThundaPC - September 12, 2009
Yummy.....
Doubleheaders at Safeco………
All-Star Club Tickers where the food is free……
Breakfast…lunch…and Dinner for the price of one game
CSD - September 12, 2009
Can't we just forfeit?
marinerdan - September 12, 2009
And we thought the weather killed us in '07
msb - September 12, 2009
Let's just assume today ain't happening either
Pic from Shannon Drayer (1 hour ago).
ThundaPC - September 12, 2009
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