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Old Sat Mar 14, 2009, 11:15am
wadeintothem wadeintothem is offline
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Originally Posted by Dakota View Post
That's all well and good, but sometimes the UIC/TD are noodleheads. You are responsible for determining if your field is safe to play. Drizzle isn't the real issue; mud holes and sloppy base paths are another thing, though.

We had a series of tornadoes go through and nearly wipe out the town of Hugo just north of me. A few weeks later, a TD wanted us to play on with the tornado sirens going of because "the sky doesn't look too bad." Noodlehead.

DoH!

Allow me to add a * to my above statement then.

*If my TD puts me anywhere near (hundreds of miles) of a sounding Tornado siren we aint playing.

(not that I've ever heard a Tornado Siren other than on TV)
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