We’ve seen our fair share of tarp fails -- woah, look at the tarp billow! The grounds crew can’t control it! Did one of them get stuck? -- so we’re numb to it at this point.
The Chicago Cubs with the worst tarp application of all time
The Chicago Cubs have lost again, this time to a gigantic piece of plastic that caused a two-hour plus wetness delay.
Brian Kersey
However, leave it to the Chicago Cubs to bring new life and humor to a situation with their contagious badness. They weren’t blown asunder by comically violent weather, but rather beaten by own failure to cover a field with a giant piece of plastic.
This is not how you cover an infield with a tarp, Cubs pic.twitter.com/ODZeKr4wQo
— Ann Frazier (@annfrazi) August 20, 2014 Oh, come on. That's not that bad. They just put it on the wrong way, and -- wait:
Tarp problems pic.twitter.com/RJS5HzwJ0N
— Jesse Rogers (@ESPNChiCubs) August 20, 2014 Pretty slushy out there. Reminds of spring game this yr canceled cause of field. Maybe Krukow was right! Not pic.twitter.com/aVPyVHvs5O
— Jesse Rogers (@ESPNChiCubs) August 20, 2014 Okay that's definitely not how that's supposed to go and okay a field shouldn't look like that.
The infield, courtesy of the Cubs' grounds crew. This is an official game, with the Cubs winning btw pic.twitter.com/1agvBVGqXw
— Ann Frazier (@annfrazi) August 20, 2014 So now half the infield is covered in water, because they didn't put the tarp on right. And even though the rain has subsided, they can't really play because the field is underwater.
Solution. LEAFBLOWER:
This is new for my baseball rain delay experiences: a LEAF BLOWER to try and try the field (cc @jnmcrms @Adam_Jacobi) pic.twitter.com/C11xnpz7hj
— Alex Simon (@alexsimon99) August 20, 2014 This went on, long, long into the Chicago night. The game was too important to the MLB standings to call after five innings -- not because the Cubs are anywhere near the postseason, but because the Giants are -- and there was apparently no possible date for the two teams to make it up.
So they waited.
After two hours: Time for sand:
What we need here: an army of kitties to scatter that sand. #cubswetdelay pic.twitter.com/zMUtKFIYNp
— Mark Caro (@MarkCaro) August 20, 2014
But they ran out of sand:
Diamond Dry night: pic.twitter.com/bnbmccVDFR
— Mark Gonzales (@MDGonzales) August 20, 2014 So they had to get more:
ALL OF THE DIAMOND DRY (Getty photo) #cubs pic.twitter.com/44UctueWvC
— Amanda Kaschube (@amandakaschube) August 20, 2014 And more sand:
Approaching 100 bags of diamond dry at Wrigley .
— Bruce Levine (@MLBBruceLevine) August 20, 2014 After three hours: #OneManOneRake
#OneManOneRake pic.twitter.com/HmDBAGqpSD
— SF Giants on CSN (@CSNGiants) August 20, 2014 I have every faith in this one man's ability to make a difference. #OneManOneRake pic.twitter.com/O7rKgKzxhC
— Andrew Baggarly (@CSNBaggs) August 20, 2014 Update: Here’s video of the whole thing, with Yakety Sax
Thanks to Ann Frazier, who is also responsible for many of the above Tweets:
After over four and a half hours without playing, the game was finally called. All because they couldn’t get the tarp on the right way:
The umpires have called this an official game, with the #Cubs prevailing 2-0 in the middle of the 5th.
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) August 20, 2014
You win again, giant pieces of plastic.
