Shea Stadium Sprinkler Snafu

 

Woops! If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere. At a night game on June 2, superintendents at Shea Stadium forgot to turn off an automated irrigation system.

Computerized irrigation controllers are a blessing, but they rely on human input to run at appropriate times. The annals of amateur sport are full of cases when sprinklers erupted in mid-game, but most Big League professionals are savvy enough to schedule dry periods. At least one hopes.

So one wonders which red-faced supervisor endured the blame for a June screw-up that had rotors pop to life in the first inning of a game at New York?EUR??,,????'???s Shea Stadium.

Standout pitcher Pedro Martinez was on the mound, but he shrugged the incident off with a laugh.

?EUR??,,????'??I just got wet,?EUR??,,????'?? he said after the game. ?EUR??,,????'??Water is a blessing.?EUR??,,????'??
Mets manager Willie Randolph was amused too?EUR??,,????'??+at least in public. But he wondered how his old boss, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, would have reacted to the incident.

?EUR??,,????'??George would have fired the whole staff,?EUR??,,????'?? Randolph mused. ?EUR??,,????'??Heads would be turning, for sure.?EUR??,,????'??

The Mets won the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-1.