It should be a coach's responsibility to know the consequences of his choice based on the rules. It should not be the official's job to explain it to him. Although the practice is commonly done that is not evidence that it should be done

It appears that Patricia Schwarz is still doped out on pot. Is she even a real person?

Anyway, Rodman, good power forward, never the best or even arguably the best. Owens, clearly one of the very best wide receivers in the game in his prime, I'll say about as good at football as Charles Barkley at basketball, Bob Costas as a broadcaster, Brad Pitt as an actor, F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer, Johnny Cochrane as an attorney, and John Glenn as an astronaut

first of all that experiment involved the LCS as well as the first round, which was ridiculous and resulted in everyone missing one LCS or another, with no opportunity to flip to a cable channel airing the alternate game, which would have essentially solved the problem. all people are asking for is that most of the games be made available at a reasonable hour when we are not at work. That is not too much to ask and, as has been pointed out, would probably result in more overall viewers for the playoffs.

I just chalked up King's peculiar pick of the Dodgers as the "What the Heck" pick of the playoffs. The possibility that it could be anything else is too upsetting to think about it

If you're gonna criticize the rainout policy you have to propose a different one. I just don't think there is a better one. Fans who buy tickets to a playoff game, or any game, know there is a chance of a rainout. You just have to plan for it. In this case, it especially sucked for those poor sad Yankee fans cause they had to wait two hours, drive home in bad weather and traffic and then come back early the next day, but such is life.

I guess they could have some kind of refund policy, but i don't see how it could be fairly applied. You would have to give people the option of getting a refund, the process would take time, then the team would have to resell the tickets. Seems like just letting people give the tickets to friends or change their plans is the best of the undesirable options inherrent in a rainout.

Loved the rant about Jeff kent. Is he even in the top ten of offenseive second baseman? In addition to the players mentioned in the article, you've got Jackie Robinson, Charlie Gehringer and Rod Carew who I think are clearly ahead of Kent, also several others who are at least as good and ptrobably better, like Ryne Sandberg and Roberto Alomar.

The other moronic comment I heard last night was when LoDuca hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded and was hitting himself over the head with his bat cause he was pissed he didn't hit a homer. One of those guys then commented "all he wanted to do there was hit a sacrifice fly". Uh, obviously not. It's a whole other point but the sacrifice fly has got to be the most overrated play in baseball. More often than not all it does is, like last night, kill the rally

under a refund scenario, as Brad points out, a lot of seats would be empty, since many fans would just opt for the refund rather than haul their asses to the park a second time and their would be no incentive to unload the tickets to someone who wants to use them. this is unfair to the fans who would want to use those tickets but can't because the original ticketholder simply opted for the refund or had no time to check with his buddies to see if they want the tickets, and then opt for the refund in time for the club to resell the seats before the game started 15 hours later. are you gonna have thousands of people lining up in the Bronx at 10pm to turn in their tickets? most people are not gonna do that because they are gonna first want to see if their buddies can use them. your proposal just seems like a poor solution to the problem of rainouts, that baseball fans have been dealing with since the beginning of baseball. anyway, there were not many empty seats from what I could see. No doubt this is because people either changed their plans, sold or gave the seats to their buddies or were somehow able to find someone else who wanted to buy them. those who couldn't do any of those ate the cost of the tickets. but they knew that was a possibility when they bought them. I just don't see what's unfair about that

If you can set up an 11am deadline for all ticket holders to either get a refund via the internet or keep the tickets, thereby allowing the refunded tickets to be resold at the stadium, that would be the best solution and would assure that all the tickets are used, which is really the most important thing