ryno4ever
Aug 5th 2008, 9:06 am
Ryan Dempster:
''Mother Nature -- she's a bitch,'' said Cubs starter Ryan Dempster (12-5),
''It was pretty amazing, lightning and tornado sirens going off, a night when the weather was pretty nuts,''
Berkman:
"Growing up in Texas, you see those kinds of storms all the time. You learn that lightning is nothing to fool around with," Berkman said. "I'll stand out there in the rainstorm all day long. But thunder and lightning, in that kind of proximity, it's definitely a hazard. You have to get the fans out of there. We have to be out there, but if you give those fans a reason to hang around they will."
"If they had continued the game, I wouldn't have gone back out there. Not for a while," Berkman said. "Like I said before the inning, you have to be an idiot to stand outside during a lightning storm. That's just common sense."
Crew Chief Umpire Wally Bell:
"This time of year with the playoffs and teams in contention, we know it's tough," he said. "I don't really want to be here at midnight, but that's our job, that's what you do. When the second rain came, it just wasn't going to happen. We talked to everybody and then called the game."
''Mother Nature -- she's a bitch,'' said Cubs starter Ryan Dempster (12-5),
''It was pretty amazing, lightning and tornado sirens going off, a night when the weather was pretty nuts,''
Berkman:
"Growing up in Texas, you see those kinds of storms all the time. You learn that lightning is nothing to fool around with," Berkman said. "I'll stand out there in the rainstorm all day long. But thunder and lightning, in that kind of proximity, it's definitely a hazard. You have to get the fans out of there. We have to be out there, but if you give those fans a reason to hang around they will."
"If they had continued the game, I wouldn't have gone back out there. Not for a while," Berkman said. "Like I said before the inning, you have to be an idiot to stand outside during a lightning storm. That's just common sense."
Crew Chief Umpire Wally Bell:
"This time of year with the playoffs and teams in contention, we know it's tough," he said. "I don't really want to be here at midnight, but that's our job, that's what you do. When the second rain came, it just wasn't going to happen. We talked to everybody and then called the game."