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Inside the downdraft, or microburst, a wall of rain was falling at a rate of about 4 to 5 inches an hour, Proctor said Monday from his Washington, D.C., office. Winds peaked at 70 mph and shifted from head wind to tail wind in a few seconds...
...laughed, and said: "Good. That means they'll put up another game on the big screen for us." Two summers ago, fully half of the 14 games I attended were either wiped clean or rain-delayed, including one between these very same Braves and Expos, so I pretty much knew the DiamondVision routine...
...class that evening at Georgia State, an unskippable chem lab at 6:30, but that didn't keep him from chilling with us during its preliminary two-hour lecture. He, my brother and I were among the maybe 10 or 12,000 still hanging around, but after the rain that actually adds to the atmosphere: You know that everyone left loves the game, and besides, there's plenty of elbow room...
Bagwell, Gwynn, Griffey and Williams may yet have their years in the sun, but what really depresses is the realization that with every week and month of games lost, for all the fans still waiting patiently through this longest of rain delays, that many more foul balls don't get sprayed into the crowd, and kids like me, or real kids half my age, can't hold them aloft with the triumphant innocence of youth. And when baseball loses its youth, we won't have baseball...
...Only rain...