Some Cleveland Guardians fans got screwed by the rain in more ways than one on Friday night.
For starters, Game 4 of the American League Division Series was postponed due to weather, but not until roughly an hour after the originally scheduled first pitch, meaning fans had traveled to the game and potentially paid for parking, food and merchandise.
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The postponement, ironically, came despite the Guardians’ X account posting “Rain or shine” an hour before first pitch. But the mess took a turn when the Guardians announced a slight change in the tickets for the game.
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The Guardians said that fans with tickets for Game 4 will be able to use them for Game 5, which is now on Sunday instead of the originally planned Saturday. Fans with Game 5 tickets “do not need to take action” and can go to the ballpark on Saturday night.
That seems fine at the outset until one realizes that fans who bought tickets to Game 5 in hopes of seeing a pennant victory will not be able to do so, since they are now going to Game 4 — Cleveland is up 2-1 on the Tampa Bay Rays.
“This is an insane way to handle tickets. Tomorrow should be Game 4 and Sunday should be Game 5. Tickets should be used in that order. This is gonna cause hella problems,” one user on X wrote on Friday night.
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“Imagine you thought you had tickets to a possible pennant-clinching win at home tomorrow night and they just casually change your tickets to Game 4. Totally ridiculous. Game is not of equal value,” wrote another. “Tickets should remain assigned to their originally designated Game # in the series.”
“I’d be a little annoyed if I bought what could be series ending tickets and got moved up a game,” said one more.
On the flip side, if the Guardians win on Saturday, those who had tickets for what was supposed to be Friday’s game could get quite lucky.
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If the weather holds this time around, first pitch is at 8:00 p.m. ET.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – I received this text from a friend who went to Friday’s scheduled game between the Guardians and Tampa Bay.
“I took my wife, my dad and my 11-year-old. We spent $150 on food and parking (not to mention gas for the hour drive). Wish MLB cared about its fans.”
The Friday game was eventually postponed and rescheduled for Sunday at 5 p.m.
Another friend texted me: “My friend and I spent about $100 for two pulled pork sandwiches and kielbasa along with a couple of beers.”
A fan posted this on my X account:
$65 parking
$48 food and 2 waters
$185 for 2 sweatshirts and 2 ponchos. Making the 4-hour drive from South Bend, Ind., to Cleveland on Sunday and will pay for parking and food once again.
Who’s fault was it?
It was Major League Baseball’s decision to try and play Friday’s game. The Guardians have no power in these situations during the playoffs.
I’m stressing that because I was at Thursday’s Game 3, which was played at 1 p.m.
That game was originally scheduled for 6 p.m. They moved it to 1 p.m. Thursday because they knew bad weather was coming Thursday night and it would carry into a rainy Friday.
“We knew going into … we knew how many days ago that today was going to be a challenge,” said Guardians manager Stephen Vogt at his press conference after Friday’s game was postponed.
“(There were) numerous weather calls back and forth,” added Vogt. “Ultimately MLB decided we needed to wait it out. Obviously it’s an important game, and we need to make sure we’re doing everything we can to play the games when they’re scheduled. But MLB ultimately decided to wait this one out.”
MLB also made fans wait in the rain and many spent money in the process to watch it rain. MLB eventually called off the game at 9 p.m., an hour after the scheduled start.
This could have been avoided
“The rain didn’t change,” said Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash. “It never cleared out the way they were hoping for. It started to get later in the hour, and MLB and I think both clubs did everything they could to try to get it in.”
But the forecast was terrible and had been terrible for days.
There was even a discussion Friday around 6 p.m. if they should open the gates for the fans and try to play. The forecast still was not good.
Had the game been called off then, at least fans would not have gone into the park and spent money while waiting.
Instead, they opened the gates and hoped for a “window” of a few dry hours to play. But the outfield was already a swamp.
Changing the schedule
MLB didn’t want to have the possibility of four games in a row, which is what they have now:
Games 4 and 5 in Cleveland on Saturday and Sunday.
Game 6 and 7 in Tampa Bay on Monday and Tuesday. That assumes the best-of-7 American League Championship Series goes seven games. The Guardians have a 2-1 lead over Tampa Bay heading into Saturday night.
The only difference was if they had called the game even Friday afternoon, fans could have saved money and the trip downtown. They could have planned to attend the game Sunday at 5 p.m., which is the make-up for Friday night.
Instead, consider what happened to this fan, who wrote me on X:
3-hour drive from Buffalo
2 hours in the car in the parking garage
$21 for parking
Stood in the rain for 2 hours
$20 on nachos and pop
3 hour drive back home
Now have to drive 6 hours round trip back on Sunday
What about the fans?
“I didn’t spend that much,” a fan wrote me on X. “About $80 at the stadium and $40 pregame on East 4th street. But I also drove from work downtown to pick up my wife, and then drove back downtown in a massive rain. So I wasted so much time.”
One fan decided to make the best of it:
“Driving during the downpour, I wondered what I was doing. Although the money spent was ‘wasted.’ I enjoyed baseball talk with other fans during the delay. We now have a ticket to a potential close out game! It will be worth it if I see the ALCS banner raised on Sunday!”
There are other ways to do it, as these fans wrote:
“I know Cleveland. I got down there just before 8, street parking by reserve square less than $5 … couple beers at City Tap $20. You can do it cheap if you want to.”
“I hope you include in your article that fans are permitted to bring their own food into the ballpark. They can park for free at most RTA stops and take the train downtown for a round trip total of $5.”
(The Guardians allow fans to bring in food and “sealed bottles of water.”)
“We spent $50 on parking and $50 on dinner at a restaurant because I needed a place to sit to wait multiple hours. We are not drinkers so that doesn’t include alcohol. We spent $50 at the team shop and then the game was canceled.”
I’ll give the final words to this fan:
“Zero dollars. Brought our own food. Sat in our car in the garage for 4 hours. Season ticket parking pass will renew for Sunday. Just gas for an 80-mile round trip. I guess MLB doesn’t have a phone. Or a weather app. You’d have to be pretty dumb to think that game was getting played.”

When Apple revealed the HomeView to the world, it did so with an unusual ad for the company: Instead of pristine, polished tech in immaculate rooms, it’s a three-minute look at the messy, frantic morning routine of a family of five. Apple’s new smart display sits in the center of the chaos on the kitchen table, helping the family check their calendars, send messages, and pull up a French toast recipe in seconds, with simple, step-by-step instructions.
The HomeView is just the latest in a long line of websites, browser extensions, and smart home gadgets with the same promise: that it can take an online recipe and strip it down to the essentials. Instead of scrolling a lengthy webpage that might range from helpful cooking instructions to seemingly irrelevant personal anecdotes, with the recipe itself way down at the bottom, you simply get ingredient lists, cooking instructions, and timers, all navigable hands-free with voice controls and Siri AI. No distractions, no unnecessary text, and no need to deal with a touchscreen while you’re wrist-deep in a chicken carcass. The appeal is obvious.
There’s only one group of people likely to object: the food writers who created those recipes in the first place. I would know, since I’m one of them — I have my own food newsletter where I occasionally publish recipes, so I have a little skin in the game. The problem is that converting a recipe into easy-to-follow instructions in Apple’s own format also strips it of its context, including the ads and affiliate links that many recipe writers rely on for their income. Recipes may often be free to read, but they’re not free to create, and solutions like Apple’s remove the main ways websites and writers recoup those costs. “Tools that just extract the recipe,” Eater senior reporter Bettina Makalintal says, “break apart that unspoken social contract with recipe developers and audiences.”
The online recipe landscape is a diverse place. Behemoths like Allrecipes and NYT Cooking host tens of thousands of recipes each, some from professional chefs and others from home cooks. Countless dedicated food publications run original recipe content, and thousands of independent chefs produce their own, across blogs, newsletters, YouTube accounts, and TikTok pages. While much of the writing on a recipe page may get on budding cooks’ nerves — we’ve all heard the jokes about being forced to read someone’s grandma’s life story before getting to their cookie recipe — it’s there for a reason. For one thing, it’s usually the only part of a recipe that a writer can copyright — the rest is regarded as mere instructions. But that extra writing is also there because before it worked so hard to strip the text out, Big Tech insisted on it. “Recipe writers needed to pad out the text in a certain way so that their recipes would have a chance of coming up in a Google search,” Makalintal explains.
The good news for recipe writers is that Apple’s approach guarantees at least one visit to their original web page. To load a recipe onto the HomeView screen you have to first open it either on your iPhone or through Safari on the HomeView itself, ensuring you’ll see its ads at least once. That’s welcome, but for website owners it’s still a lot less valuable than the repeated ad impressions that come from someone scrolling down the page and staying on it while they cook.
“Nearly every food blog has a ‘jump to recipe’ button right up at the top, so you don’t actually have to scroll. So if you’re still out here complaining about these essays, you’re just an asshole.”
— Jaya Saxena
It’s not just bad for the writers, either — readers and home cooks may be missing out too. “The additional information around recipes can sometimes be really helpful when it comes to troubleshooting problems that could come up while cooking or addressing things like ingredient swaps,” says Makalintal. Apple’s simplified steps may make some recipes easier to follow, but others might become harder without crucial context included elsewhere on the page.
And as common as gripes about recipe intros are, they’ve long been easy to skip if you really insist. “Nearly every food blog has a ‘jump to recipe’ button right up at the top, so you don’t actually have to scroll,” says Jaya Saxena, one of the founder-owners of the food website Ravenous. “So if you’re still out here complaining about these essays, you’re just an asshole.”
Apple is far from the first company to attempt to streamline online recipes. In 2021 startup Recipeasly promised to “fix” online recipes by removing the ads and “life stories.” It barely lasted a weekend before online backlash forced its founders to take it offline. Bigger tech companies have been able to plow through that resistance. Amazon’s Echo Show displays offer similar hands-free cooking features to the HomeView’s, though only with partner sites like Allrecipes or Epicurious. Google’s Nest Hubs used to as well, though Google ultimately removed the step-by-step recipe feature from its Nest Hubs in 2024, along with other “underutilized” features. Apple’s approach, which it says will work with any online recipe that uses Google’s search-friendly recipe formatting, is unique among the current smart home hubs. Perhaps most egregious of all, Google Search now uses Gemini AI to amalgamate online recipes, presenting a streamlined version right on the search page, saving users from ever needing to click through to the original sources at all.
Saxena says that for established writers, this is “more like a continuation of the threats they’ve already seen.” Unless Apple sells vast quantities of HomeView displays, its recipe function is still likely to be used by far fewer people than Google’s AI search recipes, let alone recipes from other AI assistants and tools, which are also more egregious in how they take advantage of online content. “I would put the threat level below AI summaries,” says Makalintal, because their “opaque” sourcing “really is erasing labor.”
Some major recipe platforms might be able to reduce the impact by getting on board. While the HomeView doesn’t have its own app store, it does support casting apps to the screen using the same tech as CarPlay. That means big apps like Allrecipes or NYT Cooking will have the option of presenting content on the HomeView on their own terms. Independent writers are unlikely to be able to do the same. For them, the choice remains as it has for some time: Stick it out with ever-diminishing Google traffic and ad revenue; take on more sponsored content and paid-for recipes with big brands; or move to a paywall or newsletter business model.
Smaller recipe developers are turning to Substack, says Makalintal, where it’s easy to lock recipes behind a paywall. I’m one of them — on my newsletter I restrict my recipes to paid subscribers, a reflection of the fact that they’re the most time-consuming articles I publish. I’ve asked Apple how the HomeView recipe tool will handle paywalled recipes, but at the time of publishing haven’t gotten an answer. But the move en masse to newsletter platforms “has led to some subscription fatigue among home cooks,” Makalintal says, and few cooks will start a paid subscription to access a single recipe, suggesting it’s not likely to support the whole industry.
Some version of paid-for content may be the only answer going forward, though, for creators both big and small. Tech companies like Apple will have to grapple with how their tools work when access to free content gets trickier, and the rest of us may have to get used to paying for recipes again.
“A good, creative recipe that has been tested to ensure it really works takes time and effort and money,” Saxena says. “It is a real skill to communicate how something is made when you’re not physically with that person, and buying all the ingredients needed to test things multiple times is expensive. People should probably be more comfortable paying for that.”

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has a responsibility to help poorer nations struggling with rising debt, high inflation and price shocks caused by war spillovers, the head of the global lender says.
Speaking as the IMF’s annual meetings in Bangkok wrapped up on Saturday, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said discussions with global policymakers showed both “optimism and worry”.
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“Optimism from the resilience of the global economy, the promise of AI, the dynamism of Asia,” Georgieva told reporters. “But AI is also recognised to be a source of worry and so are inflation, high levels of debt, wars, climate risks.”
Georgieva said vulnerable nations are missing out on the AI investment boom that is driving growth in richer countries while at the same time dealing with higher borrowing costs.
Higher global interest rates mean low-income countries now spend 8 to 14 percent of their revenue on debt repayments, up from previous years, she said.
“I can tell you that people everywhere, but especially in poorer countries, don’t like inflation. Inflation is like a tax on the poor,” Georgieva said.
The warnings came as low-income, oil-importing countries take the strongest hit from rising global energy costs. Prices have soared since February when the United States and Israel launched a war on Iran, leading to retaliatory strikes in the Middle East and disrupted oil and gas flows.
“Escalating conflicts ‌and trade tensions could further disrupt critical trade routes, exacerbate commodity price pressures, including in refined energy products, and worsen energy and food security,” said a statement issued by Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan, the chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC).
The IMFC is the main steering committee for the 191-member crisis lender.
Debt relief and regional support
Georgieva said her organisation has a responsibility to help countries restructure debt if needed to assist with domestic resource mobilisation, bring in international finance and create conditions for private investment.
Such countries need to set spending targets that prioritise growth and protect the most vulnerable people, she said, adding that the IMF has a “relentless pursuit of more resources for low-income countries”.
“When we do our best, it translates into better lives for people,” she said.
Georgieva also said the IMF plans to back Iraq “very firmly” with a requested loan programme while talks with Lebanese authorities are making progress.

A New York-based dairy company recalled one lot of raw milk cheddar cheese that was distributed to a slew of states — including the Empire State — due to E. coli contamination concerns.
Family Farmstead Dairy pulled a batch of Raw Milk Cheddar Cheese that has a best-by date of July 22, 2027 on Thursday that was distributed to stores in New York and New Jersey, according to a company announcement shared by the US Food and Drug Administration.
The batch of raw cheddar cheese may potentially be contaminated with E. coli, the company shared.
The potentially plagued cheese was also recalled in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia and Massachusetts — but may have been distributed to other states through downstream distributors, the announcement said.
The Worcester-based dairy company distributes a variety of their products to grocers across the country, including Whole Foods Market and Fresh Direct, according to its website.
No other Family Farmstead Dairy products have been affected by the recall.
Family Farmstead Dairy said the issue was discovered after a sample in Maryland isolated two strains of a toxin producing E. coli in two samples of the cheddar cheese.
No illnesses or allergic reactions related to the recalled cheese had been reported at the time the company made its announcement Thursday.
“We sincerely apologize to our customers, retail partners, and consumers for the inconvenience caused by this recall,” Family Farmstead Dairy said in its recall announcement.
“Product quality is an utmost priority here at Family Farmstead so we are committed to identifying the cause of this issue and taking all necessary corrective actions to ensure the continued safety and quality of our products.”
E. coli can cause diarrhea, often with bloody stools but most healthy adults can completely recover in a week.
Some people, however, can develop a form of kidney failure — Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) — which can lead to severe kidney damage and possibly death.
HUS is most likely to occur in young children and elderly people.
The Post reached out to Family Farmstead Dairy for comment.