They just felt that with the rain which had fallen there were damp areas that needed to dry out so the conditions would be fit for play.

We've had other games where we felt we needed to bounce back after a poor performance, or we're trying to put two in a row together, but early in the season, you can make up for those. This is our first big game. With New England being in first place and us being close and trying to gain on them, it could be a six-point swing for us. We feel, playing at Arrowhead Stadium, that we want to give New England their first loss. They're in first place, and that's where we want to be.

He was on today. It was little wet, damp and cold, but he battled. He didn't have a lot of strikeouts, but he was in control. He got ahead in the count constantly.

A lot of the rain ran off and a week later, we were dry again. We didn't get rainfall that was spread out through the growing year, which is what really hurt us.

So areas that were high and dry even a few centuries ago ... a lot of these settlements are now under 10 feet of water,

If it's damp outside, there's the tendency to have that chill factor. It penetrates more. A dry cold doesn't penetrate as much.