Tonight's game postponed-AGAIN!

For the second time in three days the Sox have to postpone a game due to shitty weather in the Northeast.

And for the second time in three days the Sox will play a day/night doubleheader, beginning tomorrow at 1:00 to make up for the missed date. The immediate turnaround is due to the fact that this series marks the beginning of interleague play, and the Sox and Braves only play one other time this year, at Atlanta June 18-20, leaving little room for makeup dates.

So we here in Red Sox Nation are left with another night of no baseball, forced to watch the NBA, hang with the kiddies, and tend to yardwork to occupy our free time this evening from 7:00-10:00.

Oops, guess no one up there will be doing any outdoor activities tonight.

Don't worry. I'll pick up the slack.

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Rain rain, go away...but don't come back as snow!

This isn't as live shot, but you get the idea

It doesn't look like there will be any baseball played at Fenway this afternoon. Although I am not a meteorologist, nor do I play one on this blog, with persistent rain, temps in the 30's and blustery winds plaguing the Hub all day, you don't have to be Al Roker to figure the field will be unplayable even if the conditions let up.

Which they're not supposed to. In fact as the temps go down the chances that precip will turn into snow flurries increases, and the Mariners have already had their share of snow-outs this season.

What that means is that there will be no rubber match in this intriguing three game set. The first game saw an offensive explosion as the Sox took advantage of a rusty Mariners team, and in last night's game the Sox couldn't buy a hit off Felix Hernandez (luckily they're paying J.D. Drew $70 million to get hits for them) in what was an old fashioned pitcher's duel.

Seattle isn't scheduled to return to Fenway again this season, but Boston does play 6 games against them out West, so perhaps the game will be rescheduled for Safeco Field.

It's too bad that we probably will have to wait a while to see Act III of this baseball diamond drama.

BTW, it's 80 degrees and sunny here in the Tampa Bay area today. Just thought I'd throw that in.

***UPDATE: At around 4:10 Major League Baseball officially postponed today's game. No makeup date has been announced yet****

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