WET AND WILD: SAFECO ROOF STALLS DURING RANGERS-M'S GAME

          Safeco Field's $13M retractable roof "stalled open
     right in the middle of a summer afternoon downpour" during
     Saturday's Rangers-Mariners game, according to Robin &
     Romero of the SEATTLE TIMES, who noted that rain delay was
     "the first in the history" of the Mariners.  Mariners
     spokesperson Tim Hevly: "There was a computer communications
     failure between the touch screen used to activate the roof
     and the actual roof moving mechanism -- the program that
     controls the roof function."  Hevly said that the system
     "had to be rebooted," which took 20 minutes.  The team has a
     four-year warranty on the roof, which was built by Seattle-
     based Ederer Inc. (SEATTLE TIMES, 7/23).