Remember when he was with the Angels a couple years ago? And the M's donated a bunch of signed balls and other memorabilia for an auction for his charity?

He doesn't have to go making it a thing that the team was laughing. They weren't. They weren't laughing at the fact that Cleveland was denied a victory. Nor were they laughing at the fact that he missed out on a no-no by one strike. It was because the circumstances surrounding everything were ridiculous.

Second, I thought they made a rule change this year that made it so that if the game was called in the 5th inning, the game would be restarted from that time in the game at a later date. It wouldn't be redone from start, and it wouldn't be counted as a win.

Right?

I want to see it but its been pulled

First and foremost, I'd like to note that in general, you and several of your readers are being whiny little bitches about this whole thing.  That would be okay, except that you're the ones lucked out here.  By which I mean to suggest, we Indians fans are the ones who are entitled to act like whiny little bitches here, not you.

Paul Byrd hurt your feelings?  Who cares?  You escaped a loss!  Get out of jail free!

The Mariners were celebrating, and they have a right to be.  Byrd is pissed, and he has a right to be pissed.  Both reactions are only natural.  Byrd did not accuse the players of wrongdoing, nor would I.  He said they looked like they got away with something.  Well, they did.  They got away with having their asses handed to them for half a game before it got wiped off the books.  What exactly is wrong about saying that?  It's not like they did it on purpose -- the players, that is.

There is not one person here who can claim that he himself -- or any Mariners starter -- would react any differently.  Anybody would be pissed.  And he basically admitted that he was pissed at himself for not getting through it faster.

Second, whining about the weather just doesn't make sense.  Seriously, Jeff, nobody likes the cold -- is Seattle balmy and I don't know about it? -- and nobody practices in the snow.

Four Indians got hits yesterday.  Michaels (two singles) is from Florida.  Peralta (two-run double) is Dominican.  Barfield (single, BB) is from Venezuela, and had never seen snow before being traded to the Indians a few months ago.  So that leaves Sizemore, who's from Seattle -- can a 24-year-old from Seattle really have a climate advantage over a team that plays in Seattle?

I would compare to the hometowns of the Mariners who got hits, if there were any.  So I will merely note that Beltre is in his third year as a Mariner while Marte notably struggled to adjust to cold temparatures last April.  Both Beltre and Marte are Dominican, but you didn't see Marte making three errors.  So I fail to see where these Indians had any advantage over the Mariners due to climate.  The whole idea is possibly the dumbest thing ever to appear in an SBN blog.

I'll give your readers the answer they can't come up with themselves:  Byrd is a flyball pitcher.  If the wind was doing what you say it was doing -- debatable, but possible -- then maybe it would give Byrd an advantage -- debatable, but possible.  But as I said earlier, weather is often a factor, and one that both teams have to deal with.

So really, the only constant we have to work with here is that the Mariners suck.

To us:  Better luck next time with the game.
To you:  Better luck next time with your capacity for abstract thought.