Articles tagged ‘baseball’

I love my job. Today, I was given tickets by my work to go and enjoy a baseball game in the middle of the day. Sometime after the first inning, however, it started to rain. It was my first time experiencing a rain delay at a game. In fact, a couple years ago I went to a game that rained the whole way through and they didn’t call it. Anyhow, I sat through the rain delay.

“This can’t last more than 15 minutes,” I said.

And it didn’t. Well, the rain didn’t. It took a good 20 minutes after the rain stopped to de-tarp the field and prep it for play again.

Arizonans are so weird when it comes to rain. At the slightest sprinkle they go running for cover. A lady sitting close to me said that there were a bunch of “wicked witches of the West” (actually, I think she said “wicked witch of the Wests”).

It started raining again in the 4th inning and they stopped the game again mid-batter. I told the guy I was with that we were probably done, so we headed to the car. Before we even got out of the park, it was pouring. We walked/jogged as fast as we could to my car, but by the time we got there we were soaked. We would have been drier jumping into a pool fully-clothed.

As we were driving away, the clouds went away and out came the sun. Hilarious how the weather works sometimes.