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OutKick<\/a>: Tampa Bay Rays have their first rain delay in the franchise\u2019s history, commemorative ponchos handed out to all 17 of their fans in attendance<\/span><\/p>\n I haven\u2019t written much about baseball this season, but then again, I don\u2019t really feel like I\u2019ve written that much over the last few weeks but I digress.\u00a0 But because a hurricane obliterated Tropicana Field, the dump of a venue that housed the Tampa Bay Rays, the team had been forced to play the entirety of their home games in the 2025 season, at of all places, the Yankees\u2019 Spring Training facilities, Steinbrenner Field.<\/span><\/p>\n That being said, seeing as how the Trop was an indoor ballpark, and Steinbrenner Field is very much outdoor, it\u2019s actually kind of amazing that it\u2019s taken this long for the weather to come into play in Florida of all places, and the Rays to deal with a rain delay.\u00a0 But for all intents and purposes, the franchise has declared it as the first rain delay in Rays history, and to commemorate the tongue-in-cheek occasion, all 17 fans in attendance were given commemorative ponchos, which is actually kind of cool and definitely clutch because rain at pretty much any other ballpark in the country is an instant cash-grab for the venues to be able to hawk overpriced trashbags and umbrellas on the bad luck of those not prepared for potential rain.<\/span><\/p>\n However, I\u2019m going to piss on this little parade and go all well actually<\/em>, because not only was this not the first time a Rays game has been delayed on account of the rain, I can actually say that I was there when it had happened.<\/span><\/p>\n It was in 2009, when I was still freelancing, and was having kind of a chill summer vacation on account of being in between assignments and coasting off of a giant payday I made from a project I had completed earlier in the year.\u00a0 I had money, I had time, I had my Delta flight benefits, and I didn\u2019t want to let the entire summer go by without capitalizing on my advantages at being able to tackle some baseball parks on my quest to visit all 30.<\/span><\/p>\n I got to Tampa Bay and basically went straight to the Trop since I didn\u2019t have any time to tourist around like I normally like to do on my baseball trips.\u00a0 I lucked into a paper World Series of a pitching matchup between Roy Halladay, then with the Blue Jays, and David Price, when he was still the man in St. Pete\u2019s.\u00a0 Long story short, the game went about six innings of a matchup as good as it was on paper, but unbeknownst to me, the skies had opened up and it was absolutely pouring outside the ceiling of the dome above me.<\/span><\/p>\n And then suddenly, there was an announcement over the PA system, and security started going onto the field, and players started coming off of it.\u00a0 Apparently, on account of the weather, there was a power outage somewhere in the Trop, and despite the fact that nobody could tell where it was, the ballpark felt it prudent to stop the game until the technical difficulties could be resolved.<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the fact that the baseball game was being played indoors, the rain had affected something mechanically in the venue, and the venue chose to halt the game in order to fix it.\u00a0 And there we have it, a rain delay \u2013 at an indoor park.<\/span><\/p>\n I have no idea if this was the first time that such had happened, but I\u2019m going to assume probably not.\u00a0 But the point remains is that just because rain isn\u2019t pouring all over the players and fans doesn\u2019t mean that a rain delay couldn\u2019t not happen.\u00a0 Perhaps if the Rays commemorated something not named the first-ever rain delay, it would be more accurate, but as cheeky as this little \u201ccelebration<\/em>\u201d was, it was very much not accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n I know this for fact, because I was there when it happened before, almost 15 years ago.\u00a0 Shit, 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