Word: rain
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...million. During the past decade, baseball has grown from a sleepy $600 million business to an industry worth almost $2 billion. The strike, at its core, is over the simplest of economic issues: how to divide this growing pie. And while economics is as riveting as a two-hour rain delay, it is central to the stalled negotiations. The clash involves base self- interest and primal greed: the owners want to put a cap on how much players can earn; the players want to defend and expand the right to negotiate salaries they believe they deserve...
...rain arrived in a rush, sweeping out of the hills and across the wooden outfield fence at Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, obscuring the sign that proudly proclaims the Berkshire Medical Center the OFFICIAL HOSPITAL OF THE PITTSFIELD METS. The grounds crew, so to speak, sprang into action. There was nothing big league about it. The soot-gray tarp, patched in several places, did not cooperate with the motley squad of Mets employees in baggy shorts who gamely attempted to pin it to the ground like frenzied wrestlers...
...tarp won. Infield red clay turned to instant ooze. Game called. Ten grand or so in gate receipts and hot-dog sales down the drain. "That's life in the minor leagues," said one of the vanquished, assistant general manager Richard Lenfest, as rain ran down his legs and into his sneakers...
...right side of the stage was the "HORDE Workshop." Set underneath a grove of pine trees there was, among other carnival-like attractions, a "rain tent," probably intended to provide patrons respite from the summer sun. Mother Nature had rendered that obsolete...
There was no one playing at the Gonzo stage when we got there, although it was a smaller, more intimate setting. We could have waited around in the rain for the Raging Slab set to begin, but we decided against...