Three questions in the aftermath of last night's cluster fluster -
1. Will the 7pm game be blacked out on television due to the exclusivity of Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN?
2. Has any sort of explanation been released by any sort of official person (if only anonymously via the Post), whether from the Nationals or MLB, on exactly what the holy f*** they were thinking between 7pm and 11pm?
3. For those woeful few who outlasted me (I left at 8:30pm upon seeing the writing on the wall), did those asshats ever start communicating with the fans regarding... anything? I couldn't believe that it was only the Reds/Pirates game on the big screen, absent any sort of information or message from the FO; nada over the PA system the entire time I was there.
I read in this thread that they forced everybody onto the ground level, so apparently at some point somebody, somewhere, did their jobs and told fans something prior to announcing the cancelation.
If you're gonna screw everybody that came out to support the team and pillage them of their Saturday night while robbing them of cash at concessions, the least you can do is offer them updates with some basic information. In years past it was usually, "Heavy rain incoming in another 30 minutes. Head to the concourse if you want to stay dry." "The game is in a rain delay, but we hope to still get the game in. ETA is unknown."
The fact they couldn't do that really pissed me off as time wore on. That's actually what clued me in that it was time to go at 8:30pm - it became clear amidst being left incommunicado that those idiots were going to screw this up as much as they possibly could. Sure enough, four hours of delaying the game met by a cancelation the second the rain stops; having the Marlins announce it on their Twittily Dittily 15 freaking minutes before the crowd gets told. Hello, incompetence...
