Heatcheck: Week 11

Week 11 of Heatcheck Wednesday, a permanent feature here at Ballpark Frankness. The idea behind this post is to track the past week's Rays home games and wonder how tolerable they would have been, had they been played outdoors.

Five home games since last Wednesday. Temperature was never really a problem, but that's because of a constant round of short rainstorms in the area for most of the week. Still, I don't think the rain was bad enough to delay an outdoor game. This is Florida, people. The rain usually passes after 10 minutes. So after 50 homes games, here are our up-to-date standings:

How you feeling? Hot. Hot. Hot. ---- 1

Hot, but nothing a cold beverage couldn't cure. ---- 5

Take me out the ball game. ---- 44

Rain delay (Rain plays a minor factor) ---- 2

Rain out (Rain plays a major factor) ---- 1

Comments

[John D]

Uh, coming home from work at the Pier Sunday night, the wind was in excess of 50 kts, and there was about 3" of rain measured at Whitted. I wondered--would I rather be in the Dome or at Al Lang? (where a cop cruiser was dead in the road water). We backed up and went back through Mahaffey and 'way around.
How was that date ranked?

[RaysFan]

When we left the Trop, the weather was fine. I'd imagine Sunday was rated as "take me out to the ballgame."

[cristina silva]

From what I understand, it didn't start to rain on Sunday until after the game.

[Mal]

What time was the game last sunday? At 7:00 it was a torrential downpour.

[John]

Cristina what about last Monday's Bosox game where you marked that day as "Take Me Out to the Ball game, when in fact there was a severe thunderstorm directly over downtown for the entire 2nd half of the game?

And this past Sunday the rain started WELL before game time. That would have been at the LEAST a rain delay, if not called for lightning.

Not to mention every street around Al Lang was under 18-24" of water.

Would the Rays have handed out hip waders to reach Al Lang this past Sunday?

This thread is not only inaccurate, it's a bit deceptive.

[Bobby Fenton]

Wait, are we assuming an completely outdoor stadium with this heatcheck thing? Any proposed stadium would have measures to prevent against any kind of lengthy delay. Every night would be take me out to the ballgame.

And for the record, Sunday's game started at 1:40.

[rustyeibeam]

This has turned into a farce. Since we never know what time a thunderstorm is going to hit, the fact that it hit at 6:30 pm but the game was at noon is irrelevant. The 3 game stand against Boston would have been a nightmare if you were anywhere near the perimeter of a sail shaded stadium (lots of wind plus driving rain equals horizontally driven water, people)and so would Sunday night. Get real

[Rick K]

Rusty is not paying attention.

The point of this ongoing thread (updated every week during the season) is to record actual weather conditions at the time of that week's home games.

The idea is, weather is random and uncontrollable. But let's take a look at how the actual weather would impact the actual games.

Someone previously analyzed every weather stat from the prior season and indicated there would have been a couple of rainouts (average for MLB) and a few more delays.

The only problem I have with this info is that it doesn't take into account potentially cooler and more pleasant conditions which exist on the waterfront, as oppossed to 14 blocks further inland.

But I welcome this thread's attempt to remove hysterical hypotheticals and provide us with "this is what the weather actually did" reports.

[Thomas]

The weather is not random or uncontrollable.

Regards,
George W Bush
(and his cloud seeding weather control device)

[G. W., A. L. and R. R.]

George Bush is a great president. Look at his ability to get the FISA law passed yesterday with all of those democrats on board. Now that is leadership.

If memory serves me correctly he has gotten all but two programs through Congress in his eight years. Those were his social security program and his ill fated amnesty plan (which I personally worked against myself).

Otherwise he has freed two countries, made us safer and passed tons of legislation. He has had six and one half years of a good economy versus, it looks like, one and a half years of not so good.

All in all he will be remembered as a very, very good president because of what he accomplished and the condition of the country and world he left to the next adminstration.

Go George.

[Rick K]

A.L. stands for . . . . Al Lang?

[G. W., A. L. and R. R.]

A.L. stands for Abe Lincoln!

A cheerleader a lawyer and an actor walk into the oval office...

rimshot here!

[Rick K]

In re: the joke set-up offered at 3:54 pm.

I can't help but realizing there are very different punchlines, depending upon who one pictures is the sitting President while the cheerleader, the actor, and the lawyer all walk into the oval office.

[since1962]

no blathering blogitudes necessary just the letter (R) next to the initials of those three
GW[b](R)cheerleader
AL(R)lawyer
RR(R)actor

you left off RN(R)not a crook!
and his previously quoted VP
SA(R)crook!

one out of 5 not bad ya'll