Game starts as planned despite weather

Email KANSAS CITY -- It's late Thursday morning at Kauffman Stadium, the gray skies are spitting rain, the tarp covers the infield, it's 39 degrees and the flags on the right-field poles are pointing stiffly toward the east. Inside, Royals manager Ned Yost is peering through his reading glasses at his computer screen. A radar reading shows a green mass (rain) and behind that a blue ...