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04-18-2018, 10:23 AM | #21 | |
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04-18-2018, 11:48 AM | #22 |
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Ya we've had teams that are "north" for at least 120ish years (and maybe further back then that.....think Detroit had a team in the 1880s, and that's not exactly a tropical paradise in April). Aprils a bitch north of the 45, that's why Toronto and Seattle have domes (and why Minneapolis should have one....Target Field being open air baffles me).
SO ya, there's no weather problem. It's just April. One year you'll get snow. Another year it'll be 75F. |
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Either way this weather is outlier. There usually isn’t a problem to this extent getting games played. If they weather trend continues the next few seasons then we have a bigger problem with climate change and may need to adjust.
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Bright sides? I hear we have nominally three more off days this year, so we should have more dates to play makeup games at least...
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And I never suggested there was a way to avoid weather affecting games. I did suggest there was a way to hopefully minimize the affect. There will always be postponements. But common sense would say the risk is increased if you decide to play a bunch of games in Minneapolis in March. So why create for yourself the hassle? "The shrewd one sees the danger and conceals himself, But the inexperienced keep right on going and suffer the consequences." - Proverbs 22:3
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It's a USA Today article, so of course they are pushing their absurd agenda. The real data, such as that which LGO provided, doesn't fit their narrative. So they ignore it.
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Even MLB itself used the wrong terminology!
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It's worse than that. Not only did the editors at USA Today apparently not review the article for any historical data which would have put the current season into context, neither did the editors at the Detroit Free Press, which republished the article without comment. It's not as if the data is hard to find. Most of the seasons I presented I painstakingly researched myself years ago, but since then Retrosheet has updated its schedule file collection to include information on postponed and cancelled games. Here is the web page in question, which makes it easy for anyone to run the numbers for any season. (Anyone who covers major league baseball who doesn't know about Retrosheet shouldn't be covering the sport, in my opinion.) |
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151 out of 1120 games were not played as originally scheduled (13.5%). Of those, 127 were due to weather (84.1%) and 24 for other reasons (15.9%). Weather Rain: 101 Wet grounds: 23 Cold: 3 Other Reasons Schedule change (game moved to different date): 9 Funeral of President McKinley: 8 Schedule mix up: 2 Train delay (of one or both clubs): 2 Death of President McKinley: 1 Grand Army of the Republic parade: 1 Unknown: 1 22 of the 151 games not played were cancelled and not made up (14.6%). The 127 weather-related games by month April: 23 May: 44 June: 12 July: 11 August: 19 September: 18 Last edited by Le Grande Orange; 04-20-2018 at 02:41 PM. |
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That must have been some grim weather in May. Did it rain frogs and locusts?
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I'm going to keep this as simple as possible. Making an MLB schedule is extremely difficult and complicated and it's safe to say that they're already doing everything they can to minimize the risk of "hassle." I can assure you that they've considered every solution you can come up with and, if they're not doing it, there's a reason they're not doing it. Doesn't your book of fairy tales have a quote about assuming you know more than you really do? |
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doubleheaders are the obvious answer...and I just don't understand why MLB schedules games in the Northeast in the first weeks of April...it's categorically stupid. Schedule the first few weeks in the southern cities and in domes...
Of course the argument is that the home openers for the northern cities would be later for those clubs.. but in my opinion...start the season in late april and have each team play 10 doubleheaders per season...
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They aren't, because the players don't like either type of doubleheader. The owners don't like single-admission doubleheaders, but can accept separate admission (i.e. day-night) doubleheaders since they don't lose ticket revenue.
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Mocking someone’s religion (“book of fairy tales”) is bigoted and intolerant. |
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What's mind-bending to realize is that the entire population of the Earth could be contained within a relatively small geographic area, globally speaking, yet with everyone having plenty of living room and comfort, and the rest of the planet could be left to nature, if we were maximally efficient in how we set up our civilization. But of course that has the benefit of hindsight and hundreds of years of technological progress which our actual development did not afford us.. |
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At what point did I mock anybody about the environment? Here's another proverb for you....... "A fool immediately shows his annoyance," - Proverbs 12:16 I'm a firm believer the environment is being ruined by mankind as a whole & there will be a reckoning. "your own wrath came, and the appointed time came.......to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” - Revelations 11:18 I'm personally disappointed there are posters here who easily dismiss the possibility humans are affecting the way the earth operates long term. I may not subscribe to the global warming theories. But I don't dismiss them either. I'm humble enough to know man can't possibly say for certain one way or the other. It's all speculation at this point. Not too mention the merits of global warming isn't the issue. But to act like my quoting the Bible was mocking environmentalists is ridiculous.
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I generally agree, with the proviso that making fun of each other for comedic or satirical purposes is entirely acceptable. As long as it applies to everyone; that is, any group can make fun of any other group. |
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