I've read many times that Portland has fewer rain days during the baseball season than just about every major league city. Summers here are perfect for baseball.kjironman1 said:
So you like rain outs?
I didn't mean literally float on the water, I just meant build it above the existing road so it becomes like an underpass.
That is not really a good graph to make your point. 22% of the games would have to be made up at the end of the season or crunched in to other non travel days off. Double headers maybe? Even if your assumption that it is drier here and it goes down to say 18%? It's way too much. Portland would be absolutely stupid to build a stadium without a roof system. I mean come on??? We are talking about April, May and the Beginning of June. How many years have you lived here? Now how many times have you waited until 4th of July before it stopped raining?IIRC, Portland is warmer and drier than SEA, so not quite apples-to-apples, but I don't know that a roof is required:
While Seattle is notoriously known for “always raining”, the roof has actually been open in 78% of games played (985 of 1262). It has been closed (or moved during a game) roughly 22% of the time. The record for most games played in the open air is 71 (out of 81 home games) in 2006 and 2012.
It doesn't rain in Oregon in the summer. Places like St Louis and Atlanta have hellatious rain storms during the summer. We don't.
Just because the roof is closed doesn't necessarily equate to a rain out....
Snow??? What? Too Hot?
This is the thinking why it will never happen
That is just crazy talk now.
It can happen.
May be ideal, but I remember years ago....when we were going through this BS, that if we had the same home schedule as the Mariners, we would be rained out like 8 games.
Again these are really really bad stats when you are talking about an average of nearly 40% into June. We are talking about 40 games into the season.
No, it says that only 22% of games even reached a point where they decided that maybe the roof should be shut. Even in the middle of a game. It didn't say that it closed for rain that never materialized, or that there were high winds, or low temps or high temps (which wouldn't stop a game anyway, but if you have a roof, great!).
Explain how 29%, the highest probability in June on the 1st day, is almost 40% into June.... When it drops to 14% by the end of the month.
What winter events are you expecting would be there? The only thing SafeCo does outside baseball season are the occasional CFB Bowl Game or soccer game (before Seahawks Stadium was built), which wouldn't need a roof anyway, and Wrestlemania once. They don't have concerts or monster truck rallies or anything there. In fact, this winter they're completely resodding and re-dirting the field.
You went from 47% to 29% over two months. Essentially 40%... Okay 38% average.
40 games into the season equates to average of 20 at home so at let's say average of 38% chance April +May there might be 7.5 game days affected by rain at all... Again that doesn't mean a rain out because that 35% might be a shower in the morning and nothing by game time.
Why wouldn't we want more events there? Are you saying you don't want them there? Why is this even a point?
