M's FO and the roof
For those of you at the game yesterday, you might have noticed the roof closing for no reason. This has been a long standing problem for M's management, who has shown it is simply not capable of operating the roof the way it was intended by many of us taxpayers. (Note to Chuck- it's OUR stadium)
The M's policy for the roof seems to be this:
"The Seattle Mariners guarantees all ticket holders you will never feel a drop of rain while attending a game at SafeCo."
This is why the roof closed yesterday. It wasn't because it was pouring outside, or because the weather was terrible. No, the reason it was closed was because Chuck THOUGHT it might rain. The fact that the weather report called for sunbreaks and afternoon clearing was not enough. The fact you could look outside and clearly see rain was not going to be a problem was not important to M's management. The fact it did not rain ONE DROP from noon till nightfall in my home in West Seattle, overlooking the M's stadium did not matter to the M's.
The M's are so serious about selling this idea you will not get rained on during a game that closing the roof is warranted even when its not raining. It pisses me off that they do this, but we can't seem to get the concept that we all LIVE IN SEATTLE and KNOW HOW TO COPE IN THE RAIN to the Seattle FO.
I don't want to sit through a nine-inning game in the pouring rain when we have a roof sitting overhead. I supported having a roof on SafeCo because there are plenty of days when we really need it.
But yesterday was not that day.
For those of you at the game yesterday, you might have noticed the roof closing for no reason. This has been a long standing problem for M's management, who has shown it is simply not capable of operating the roof the way it was intended by many of us taxpayers. (Note to Chuck- it's OUR stadium)
The M's policy for the roof seems to be this:
"The Seattle Mariners guarantees all ticket holders you will never feel a drop of rain while attending a game at SafeCo."
This is why the roof closed yesterday. It wasn't because it was pouring outside, or because the weather was terrible. No, the reason it was closed was because Chuck THOUGHT it might rain. The fact that the weather report called for sunbreaks and afternoon clearing was not enough. The fact you could look outside and clearly see rain was not going to be a problem was not important to M's management. The fact it did not rain ONE DROP from noon till nightfall in my home in West Seattle, overlooking the M's stadium did not matter to the M's.
The M's are so serious about selling this idea you will not get rained on during a game that closing the roof is warranted even when its not raining. It pisses me off that they do this, but we can't seem to get the concept that we all LIVE IN SEATTLE and KNOW HOW TO COPE IN THE RAIN to the Seattle FO.
I don't want to sit through a nine-inning game in the pouring rain when we have a roof sitting overhead. I supported having a roof on SafeCo because there are plenty of days when we really need it.
But yesterday was not that day.
posted by Tom at
10:09 AM
