The link I've provided here underscroes why the Tribe shouldn't play a home game before April 15.
Check out the giveway on April 12: Tribe stocking cap.
Baseball is meant to be played in the summer, when the weather's warm and the beer is refreshing. Not in temperatures that usher in freezing fog.
Further proof -- if you need it -- is last year's opening weekend debacle. The Tribe was snowed out three straight days as it began its home schedule against the Mariners. Downtown Cleveland got a foot of snow that weekend.
So what do the schedulers -- in their infinite wisdom -- do to the Tribe this year? They put a larger percentage of their home games (relatively speaking) in April and May, including an opening series against Chicago that, may I remind you, the two teams played in weather more suited for rugby than baseball.
Cleveland certainly isn't the only city whose team suffers this fate, but there are enough warm-weather cities in the league to mitigate the risk.
I hope that the schedule makers can put on their Tribe stocking caps and do some serious thinking about this problem.
And yes. I'm complaining because I'm a season-ticket holder and I absolutely hate the friggin' cold.
1 comment:
Too bad the Tigs opening weekend couldn't have gotten blown out.
Winter Coat and Whiskey to the first 10,000 fans!
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