Wither (Weather) Baseball

Jeff Passan tells us that baseball is having an attendance problem:

Compared to last season at this juncture, the Boston Red Sox are down about 2,500 fans a game. For the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, it’s nearly 5,000. The Cleveland Indians’ average crowd has dropped more than 5,000, the Texas Rangers’ more than 7,000 and the Pittsburgh Pirates more than 7,500. The Toronto Blue Jays, Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals each are in the 8,000-fan range, and the Miami Marlins are pushing 10,000. The most severe is the Baltimore Orioles, who have played six games at home and are at almost 16,000 fewer per.

So far we've had an awful spring in the northeast.

[You had two snow storms each of 6+ inches-Ed]

We just had a 12 hour torrential downpour here, great for the new lawn, and we only had to sacrifice one daughter to the god Kek to get it. Praise Kek!

Readers in other parts of this great land should note that in the northeast April is usually dank, wet, cold, windy. Real spring doesn't come around till May.

Of course for TV money baseball has all these night games on ESPN featuring, say, the Yankees and Red Sox. Those games are as cold and unpleasant as they look.

There's a reason baseball used to start in mid-April.

Now the geniuses in baseball are starting the season in late March and playing it all the way to November. Early October in these parts is wonderful. The air is dry and crisp usually about 50 degrees...

[50! holy...]

That's Fahrenheit, not your stupid Celsius. Why don't you got put on your short shorts and kick a 'futball' around? We bet Renaldo shaves his legs.

Anyhoo, early October is wonderful, but with this November World Series baseball is really pushing its' luck. 

We had hoped we'd see some common sense with new commish Rob Manford. So far not so good.