White Sox To Forfeit Rainout!!!

[mosox]

Hard to believe, but the White Sox don't want to make up the August 14th rainout and are willing to give Boston a win!

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/col/story/339091p-289614c.html

[SchillingIsTheNatural]

HAHA that would be SWEET

[soxie thefangirl]

That's pretty awesome. They figure they have nothing to lose and certainly don't wanna deal with a makeup they don't need instead of having a day off.

[stocker323]

Yankee fans would be so pissed, haha screw them. I doubt that will happen though, too many people would be crying about it. Particularly from 1 city.

[sarasoxfan]

yeah, I'll believe it when I see it..

 

but for now ...hahaha

[YanksHater213]

This would be so awesome if it happened...

[yankeessuck013]

hhaahaha....that would be sweeet

[riverside sluggers]

oh yessss it would Sox dont even play a game today and could up their record over the yanks

[SCM33]

If the season comes down to 1 game between the Yanks and Sox, Selig will force them to play the game. If not, the sox get the forfeit. There is still a chance the game gets played.

 

The yankees got a forfeit last year from TB i believe, but would have been force to play a 1 game playoff if it came down to it.

 

Long story short, the win doesnt get added until the end of the season, and its not definate. It only counts if its meaningless.

[soxie thefangirl]

No they tried for that forfeit but they never got it. 'Cause TB was late coming back to Florida because of the hurricane, so Cashman demanded a forfeit but Selig obviously didn't give it to him. 'Cause that would've been ridiculous.

[Soxfan1]

Greeat.

[YankeeDoodle]

As far as the Yanks-Sox being tied at the end, which doesn't seem likely, but I know that in the NFL, to determine who gets into playoffs in the event of identical record (it would seem to have a higher chance of likelihood), there's at about eight determining steps...and the very last resort is a coin toss. Some include head-to-head, scheduling strength, scheduling strength of the opponents, etc., so I wonder if MLB has a similiar system, instead of scheduling an extra game, which seems to be a very odd option.

[Sizzlin22]

This is never going to happen if it comes down to 1 game, doesn't really effect anything.

[stocker323]

In MLB, if it ever comes down to 1 game they don't do tiebreakers and s***. They just play 1 game to determine who gets in.

[greenwell39]

The only thing that sucks, though, is that people like me who sat through the blistering heat and two rain delays won't get to see the Sox play. I'd really like to see at least one game this season!

[Yanksin2010]

As a yankee fan, this enrages me, but I do understand it. We're going to miss the playoffs anyway, let the bosox get another game.

[stocker323]

I love pessimistic Yankee fans.

[ARod2212]

Even if it comes down to both teams playing the game at the end of the season, I would imagine we'd see the Triple A White Sox on the field for the game, all but assuring the win for Boston.

[ORS]

40 games left and the ChiSox, Red Sox and Angels are separated by 5.5 games. Home field advantage is not locked up. The south-side Sox have to deal with the surging Guardians, the Twins, and improving Tigers. The Red Sox have had their trouble with the Jays and O's, Tampa is playing good right now, and there's always the Yankees to deal with. The Angels have to play the Sox in Fenway, and have divisional series with the A's, the streaky hitting Rangers, and may have to face Felix Hernandez more than once. It's tough to imagine this game not being played at the end.

[redsoxrules]

As a yankee fan, this enrages me, but I do understand it. We're going to miss the playoffs anyway, let the bosox get another game.

 

so true lol :harhar:

[BoSox21]

it definitely won't happen if the game could turn out to mean anything as far as the playoffs go

[yankeessuck013]

This game could have ramifications for the ChiSox as well, seeing how they are quickly losing themselves out of the A.L.'s best record....

[26 to 6]

As a yankee fan, this enrages me, but I do understand it. We're going to miss the playoffs anyway, let the bosox get another game.

 

bro, we're tied for the wild card lead and only 3.5 back in the division, still a lot of baseball to be played, chill out.

[riverside sluggers]

boston.com

 

Makeup date unhappy prospect

White Sox rainout cause for haggling

By Gordon Edes, Globe Staff | August 25, 2005

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A decision on when the Red Sox and Chicago White Sox will replay the rained-out game of Aug. 14 in Fenway Park could come today, as all parties involved await a decision that is now commissioner Bud Selig's to make. Barring a surprise, the game almost certainly will be played Sept. 5, Labor Day, a scheduled day off for both clubs. But what might seem on the surface a simple matter has proven intractable, with potential postseason consequences not only for the two teams involved but a third team, the Los Angeles Angels. Under a scenario favored by Red Sox players and supported by team management and the players' union, the Angels would agree to play a split-admission doubleheader against the Sox Sept. 7.

 

The Angels, however, are balking, according to Gene Orza, chief operating officer for the Major League Players Association. They prefer to play the schedule as it is currently comprised, with single games in Fenway Park Sept. 6-8. The commissioner's office, Orza said, has the ''absolute, immutable, clear unambiguous" right to decide this scheduling issue, superseding workplace rules that players cannot work more than 19 straight days without their permission. ''The league possesses the ability to force the issue of scheduling, but that's not the smart thing to do," said Orza, strongly suggesting that players have long memories when forced to do something against their will.

 

The White Sox, who are in first place in the American League Central Division, were leading the Red Sox, leaders of the AL East, 5-2, in the fourth inning of the Aug. 14 game, but it was postponed after both teams waited more than 4 1/2 hours through two rain delays. Every effort was made to finish the game because it was the last day of the series, and Chicago's only scheduled trip to Boston. Sept. 5 is an open date on the schedule for both the White Sox and Red Sox. By playing that day, the Red Sox would be giving up their only scheduled day off between Aug. 22 and Sept. 22, requiring them to play on 30 straight days. So, the Red Sox would prefer to make up the game after the season.

 

''Obviously, that's a big strain on the Red Sox," Orza said, ''but playing that day places perhaps a bigger strain on the White Sox." By agreeing to play Sept. 5, Orza said, the White Sox would be giving up ''a once-in-a-generation" rarity, a home holiday day off. Instead, after playing the Tigers at US Cellular Field on the afternoon of Sept. 4, they would have to fly to Boston, play the Red Sox the next day, then fly back to Chicago to play the Royals at home the next night.

 

According to Orza, the White Sox players also prefer to wait until after the regular season to make up the game, their position being that the game might not need to be played at all if it had no bearing on the standings. Why couldn't MLB satisfy the wishes of the Red Sox and White Sox to play the game after the season? According to Orza, the schedule of the first round of division playoffs is dictated by which league wins the All-Star Game and the home-field advantage. That was the American League, so the AL division playoffs begin Tuesday, Oct. 4, with NL playoffs beginning a day later. MLB cannot take the chance, Orza said, that there would not be another rainout involving the White Sox and Red Sox.

 

''We thought we had a resolution," Orza said, with the plan to have the Angels, who are home Sept. 4 and off Sept. 5, agree to a switch of the Sept. 6 game to a doubleheader the next night. That way, the Red Sox would not have to play 30 days in a row. But the Angels, with a series that weekend against the White Sox, objected, apparently concerned, Orza said, about the impact a doubleheader would have on their pitching rotation.

 

''It would be difficult at best for our club to play a split doubleheader [in order] to reschedule a game we're not involved in," Angels manager Mike Scioscia told Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times last night. ''There are ways to accommodate teams and we always do our best, but a split doubleheader can zap you for two or three days afterward." John Lackey, the Angels' player representative, said he hasn't been asked yet to take a vote of the team's players, but added: ''I have a good idea the vote is not going to go well for the Red Sox." Orza said he is not unsympathetic to the positions of all the teams, but believes that the most equitable solution would be for the Angels to accept the split-doubleheader concept.

 

It remains to be seen, however, whether Selig forces them to do so. The alternative is for the White Sox and Red Sox to make sacrifices, the Angels to get their way, and the union to be vexed.

[CrespoBlows]

No they tried for that forfeit but they never got it. 'Cause TB was late coming back to Florida because of the hurricane, so Cashman demanded a forfeit but Selig obviously didn't give it to him. 'Cause that would've been ridiculous.

 

Cashman had nothing to do with the forfeit. It had everything to do with George Steinbrenner, he wanted the forfeit.

[riverside sluggers]

NESN just reported to mark your calendars, the Sept 5 game against the White Sox at Fenway Park will indeed be played!! This gives the Sox 30 straight days of playing games, eek, at least the rosters will be expanded by then

[Sox Fan on Cape]

I think the White Sox like it even less, at least we're at home.

[redsoxlover24]

The only thing that sucks, though, is that people like me who sat through the blistering heat and two rain delays won't get to see the Sox play. I'd really like to see at least one game this season!

 

I'm with you. I went to that game and had to deal with all of that. I would like to see a game that I payed a lot of money for. I heard MLB told them that they have to make it up whether they like it or not on labor day. So we might get to see that game after all.

[greenwell39]

I'm with you. I went to that game and had to deal with all of that. I would like to see a game that I payed a lot of money for. I heard MLB told them that they have to make it up whether they like it or not on labor day. So we might get to see that game after all.

 

It looks as though we will! This was posted on the Red Sox site:

 

"The Red Sox face a 30-game test of endurance after Commissioner Bud Selig ruled that the rained-out game of Aug. 14 between Boston and the White Sox will be made up on Sept. 5 at Fenway Park.

Fans holding tickets for the postponed game should use their ticket stubs for admission to the Labor Day contest. No start time has been announced."

[riverside sluggers]

as i have posted that before last night after hearing it on NESN