>Like I said, embarrassing.
>
>^^^^
>CB: For Tampa Bay ?
For baseball. They played last night because television wanted the game played. Howard Bryant, one of the more thoughtful sports writers, says this is another example of baseball playing chicken with its product.
>Baseball executives knew the game would be washed by rain, but
>television demanded the game be played.
>
>The sport gave itself to Fox and the fans paid the price.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2008/columns/story?columnist=bryant_howard&id=3668144