MLB in April

[[echo]]

It’s criminal that MIN built that new park without a retractable roof. Criminal.

^this

[BuckyBuckner]

You guys know that it historically rains a lot in April, right?

[Hammer]

You guys know that it historically rains a lot in April, right?

does it snow a lot as well?

[BuckyBuckner]

does it snow a lot as well?

Not typically, this is very unusual and not something you can anticipate. Are you suggesting that teams in the north play on the road for the first month of the season? Unless they are going to shorten the season and start in May this is just what's going to happen.

[Hammer]

Not typically, this is very unusual and not something you can anticipate. Are you suggesting that teams in the north play on the road for the first month of the season? Unless they are going to shorten the season and start in May this is just what's going to happen.

I am suggesting for the first two weeks of the season, teams in the northeast be either in the south, west or domes as much as possible and for those times its not possible, northeast games should be played in the day and night at night where its 10-15 degrees colder.

[TranaGreg]

... apparently playing in domes isn't necessarily the answer either as the Jays-Royals game may be postponed today in Toronto due to ice falling off the CN Tower onto the roof of the Rogers Centre (and apparently scaring the crap out of people inside or nearby)

[virgonomic]

My car had a 1/4" layer of ice on it this morning. In the east end of Ottawa, there were hydro poles snapped in half. Driving around there were ice chunks blowing off power lines and trees. Wild stuff.

[cool hand]

I've been out of power from an ice storm since Saturday. I'm about 10 min from Comerica Park. This is not normal.

[rhd]

... apparently playing in domes isn't necessarily the answer either as the Jays-Royals game may be postponed today in Toronto due to ice falling off the CN Tower onto the roof of the Rogers Centre (and apparently scaring the crap out of people inside or nearby)

When you walk around in downtown Toronto, wear your hard hat

Surely, this has happened before, right (large chunks of ice falling of the tower)? If it can punch a hole thru a solid steel and concrete roof, this has to be potentially life-threatening. What has been discussed before about this issue and what if anything has been done about it?

[madducks]

When you walk around in downtown Toronto, wear your hard hat

Or one of these:

[TranaGreg]

When you walk around in downtown Toronto, wear your hard hat

Surely, this has happened before, right (large chunks of ice falling of the tower)? If it can punch a hole thru a solid steel and concrete roof, this has to be potentially life-threatening. What has been discussed before about this issue and what if anything has been done about it?

The roof has steel girders but the material covering is some kind of vinyl/plastic (I should look that up) ... while ice falling off the tower has happened before it's surprisingly rare (I can remember warnings maybe 2 or 3 times over the past 20 years). And it's never hit the Rogers Centre - that was also a function of the crazy strong easterly winds that we've had the past few days.

Yes, there have been concerns about it being life-threatening - they've closed off the public pathways around the site & the tower itself has been closed to tourists the past couple of days. I saw a pic of a van parked nearby that had its roof smashed in. But all seems to be getting back to normal ... now if I could get power back at home on I'd really appreciate that!!! (it's been out since Sunday evening).

Or one of these:

nice! love the argos reference!

[Judge Jude]

fyi, MLB is reading this thread

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/...MBL-sched.aspx

Major League Baseball is making adjustments to its 2019 master schedule as a result of the historic run of poor weather and game postponements this month in the Northeast and Midwest.

The developing shifts in next year’s schedule primarily involve concentrating games in April and September, where the threat of weather postponements is highest, to intradivision matchups. Those games, typically involving teams that play each other 18 or 19 times a year, allow for easier rescheduling since the road clubs make multiple trips to the home market during the course of the year.