Spring Training Game called for the weirdest reason ever!

[Mitchell]

Okay, I thought I've read every possible whacky occurence for why a baseball game has been called. Darkness at the old Wrigley Field before they put in lights. Rain, snow, American League Curfew which states that an inning cant start past 1am, the All Star Game where teams ran out of pitchers, but today, a spring training game was called for probably the most ridiculous reason in the history of the game!
In today's spring training game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies in Tuscon, AZ, the game was called in the sixth inning, due to a swarm of bees that had overtaken the playing field! Apparently, according to an article on AOL sports news, the bees were attracted to a hair gel worn by Rockies pitcher Darren Oliver, and kept swarming around him while he was pitching, and later spreading on to the field, making it dangerous for the players, umpires, and fans to be in the vicinity, for fear of being stung, so the game was thus called by the umpires in the sixth inning this afternoon.
One never knows what would have happened had the game been a regular season, playoff, or World Series game with more magnitude, but it was certainly the most interesting reason for a game being called that I've ever heard. Any thoughts?

Mitch

 

[milagros317]

Very amusing, actually. 😛

Not so funny was when game 3 of the 1989 World Series was called off because of an earthquake. 🙁

 

[phfttklr]

There is nothing rediculous about being stung by a swarm of bees. Maybe they wouldn't have gotten stung but would you want to be subjected to that, or even have to concentrate on the game while avoiding them. Imagine a ball screaming at you at 90mph and you loose site of it because you were trying to swat bees away. Another point is, what if you are alergic to them?

Forget the idea that it's just a pre-season game. Imagine that it's game seven in the World Series and your team is in the field, a fly ball with two outs, two or three runners on. Your team is up by a run
and the visiting team. The ball drops to the ground because your fielder got distracted and the lose the World Series. All because of these silly, little bees.

Gnats I can understand, bees... no way.

 

[Mitchell]

Pht, you make some valid points, and no, of course I wouldnt want to be stung by bees. I didnt say they were wrong for cancelling the game, as that wasnt the point of my post. My main point was, that it was a weird reason for having to cancel a game, as in a very unusual occurence. You are right about them cancelling the game for safety purposes if people are allergic. The real point of my post was that I had never heard of a game cancelled for a reason such as this, until now.

Mitch

 

[the_Baron]

i wouldn't want to be around a swarm of excited bees. hard to reason with them.

i have to imagine there was quite a many.

 

[He-Man]

i wouldn't want to be around a swarm of excited bees. hard to reason with them.

i have to imagine there was quite a many.

You think that's bad, you'd probably really hate to be near those "giant" hornets they showed once on tv...one of them could take down maybe 30 bees in a few minutes. Even killer bees aren't THAT nasty.😱

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I read about a game at Comiskey Park in the late '50s that was held up for an hour or two because of a swarm of gnats. In fact, there was a newspaper photo of Hall of Fame outfielder Larry Doby (late in his career playing for the White Sox) threatening them with a can of Raid, or something.
I went through the swarm of aggressive flies that used to inhabit the bleachers at the old Jack Russell Stadium, down in Clearwater. We'd sit there, throughout the game, trying to kill them. In the seventh inning, Phillies outfielder Glenn Wilson, who was bored to tears, took off his hat, and chased them around madly, almost tripping over a catcher's mask on the dirt in the bullpen.

Pro Player is an ordeal in August and September..the gnats swarm, and bite, and draw blood...