Unbelievable - Roof closed!

[jeffy]

Okay, now I have had it with the idiotic roof decisions!

 

I called the roof hotline as they always seem to be looking for reasons to close it, but I was not really expecting that they would come up with some asinine decision like this for today, but they did.

 

Forecast is for temps of 78 falling to 69 at 8 pm.

[YoGasKpose]

Everything I've read indicates that these kinds of things are MLB decisions. They want game conditions "as uniform as possible."

 

No fun, obviously, but I don't think it's the Miller Park folks' call.

[owbc]

Excellent decision. The louder the better.

[YoGasKpose]

That is true about noise. Maybe the sound alone will be able to open it up.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Wow, that's stupid. On the bright side it'll be louder. It's gonna be extremely hot in there though.

[Bombers]

Yep ... for those going to the game ... lets blow the roof off this place!! Go Brewers!!!!

[wisconsinfan47]

I don't care if it's 72 and sunny...keep it closed. Loudness is more important than fan comfort for the playoffs.

[RockCoCougars]

The roof should have been open for all three games. I complained loudly about the first two, but I can actually agree with keeping it closed today because of noise. I'm not completely sold that noise makes a big difference in baseball, but I hear the argument. Hopefully someone from Arizona doesn't hit a 3 or 4 run jack in the first inning or two to render that moot.

 

In the end though, this is Wisconsin. If someone can't sit outdoors in mild weather for a baseball game, perhaps they should stay home. I don't buy that the closures over the past week is MLB mandated either. I've been to plenty of day games in the early season where it is sunny and around 60 and the roof is closed. I find that to be a joke. My attitude, if it's raining, close it- under 50 degrees, close it- any amount of windchill reported, close it. Otherwise leave it open.

[owbc]

According to the JS blog, the outfield panels will be open. Get ready for a high scoring game.

[patrickgpe]

yeah probably has more to do with home field advantage than letting the fans be comfortable. i'm all for it, just want to win this game.

[sveumrules]

I believe it was Mickey Rivers who once said something along the lines of "I don’t get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there’s no sense in getting upset. And I don’t get upset over things I can’t control, because if I can’t control them there’s no sense in getting upset."

[UeckerAddict]

I thought it was all about the noise from Day 1 (or Game 2, really). Figured it was inevitable to be closed today. I felt completely comfortable for Game 2, so no arguments here.

[jeffy]

Most of the comments on the J-S story on this are appropriately negative, calling this idiotic decision (whoever's it was) exactly what it is. So I think the majority of fans attending the game, you know the people who pay for MLB, would prefer to have the roof open on a nice pleasant day like this.

 

The excuse that MLB wants conditions consistent with the other 4 games is really pathetic.

[pretendastronaut]

If they want consistency, shouldn't they have made artificial rain for all the Yankess/Tigers games?

[jeffy]

If they want consistency, shouldn't they have made artificial rain for all the Yankess/Tigers games?

 

 

Exactly, To me consistency meant only trying to avoid a situation where the roof was open for part of the game and then had to be closed. For game 2, I was willing to accept keeping it closed since the temps would be dropping and it was likely they would want to close it sometime during the game and the temp at the start was no such that it was too warm in there. Today it is going to be near 80, add 44,000 plus hot bodies to that and it's probably going to be 85 or above in there.

[Team Canada]

yeah probably has more to do with home field advantage than letting the fans be comfortable. i'm all for it, just want to win this game.

No, MLB controls the roof in the postseason.

 

This is unbelievably dumb.

[TooLiveBrew]

This all but guarantees Selig will get booed today.

[chuckiehacks]

No way Selig gets booed today. In any other city, yes. But today, with fans already excited, he'll be received as the man who brought baseball to (and kept baseball in) Milwaukee.

 

Of course, there's one way he could guaranty an ovation - Beast mode.

[jeffy]

I don't think Selig will get booed, but it'd be nice to hear an "open the roof" chant for him...don't expect that either, though.

[markedman5]

I don't care even a little bit whether the roof is open or closed.

 

Its game 5.......win or go home......are people really going to be complaining about the roof?

 

really?

[Invader3K]

Well, the Brewers won the first two with the roof closed...

[adamb100]

The closed roof gives the Brewers a bigger advantage. No complaints from me.

[RockCoCougars]

Well, the Brewers won the first two with the roof closed...

Small sample.... Seriously, that's my feeling too- I'm the superstitious sort. Frankly, I wish they'd leave the panels closed as well- Aaron Hill doesn't need any help getting a wall scraper down the line in the top of the first after Bloomquist reaches on a swinging bunt.

[pebadger]

M only wish is that if STL comes to town there is zero consistency with the roof decisions.