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Originally posted by M&M Guy
What's the deal with MLB telling the Astros they have to play with the roof open tonight? I can see them telling the team to close it in the event of inclement weather, say for safety reasons, but what's the purpose of telling them they have to keep it open, other than to negate some of the home-field crowd noise advantage?
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My theory is that the MLB Head Office really has a secret department called "The Department Of Anal-Retentive Sissies That Have Never Played Sports In Their Lives Except In Middle School When They Got Picked Last". The sole purpose of this department is to piss off everybody that they possibly can. In the past MLB has given full authority to this department to handle matters such as various Players' Strikes(see 1994), All-Star games that end in ties, World Series games that don't end until 2:00am and any other situations that may arise. This department can also be leased out to other sports when needed; for instance, it is not that very well known but TDOARSTHNPSITLEIMSWTGPL also was responsible for the recent 1 1/2 year NHL strike, the just-implemented NBA dress code and the NFL tuck rule. With it's mandate of trying to piss off as many people as possible, the Houston situation became an perfect situation for the Department to be assigned to. You have a team that has never appeared in a World Series before and an accompanying fan base that is deliriously happy that
their team is finally in one. Well, that was just
too much happiness to be tolerated by the artist known as TDOARSTHNPSITLEIMSWTGPL.
Voila...... the dome
MUST be opened!
PS- Little known fact.....Steve Bartman was an undercover operative for TDOARSTHNPSITLEIMSWTGPL.
It's true, it's true......
[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Oct 25th, 2005 at 03:34 PM]