Marlins Park Featured a Rain Delay on Opening Day Despite Retractable Roof
By Mike Cardillo
Opening Day, if you’re a baseball day, is like a holiday on the calendar. Either way, this is an Opening Day story that will be hard to top. The Marlins/Braves game in Miami featured a rain delay. No big deal, right? It rains all the time in Florida. Well … the team has a retractable roof over Marlins Park.
Only Marlins could have a rain delay on Opening Day in stadium with a retractable roof. We're delayed in 2nd inning, roof still wide open.
— David O'Brien (@DOBrienATL) April 6, 2015
And it didn’t really get the job done.
Marlins Park roof closing with speed of an old Holiday Inn elevator pic.twitter.com/bXIsJYEc18
— Jeff Schultz (@JeffSchultzATL) April 6, 2015
How could this situation get worse?
Marlins don't have rain tarp because they didn't think they would need one with a roof, except that roof has to be closed for that to matter
— Jeff Schultz (@JeffSchultzATL) April 6, 2015
Yep. The Marlins don’t even have a tarp. (Or apparently access to the local doppler radar.)
As many of you have pointed out, the first rain delay of 2015 comes from retractable-roofed Marlins Park.
— YCPB (@cantpredictball) April 6, 2015
Reminder: Marlins Park cost about $650 million, much of the money coming from taxpayers.
All told it looked like the delay took about 20 minutes total.