Well, well, well. What are you gonna do? It’s strangely gratifying to see a AAA team struggling, when by most accounts the move to the tropical paradise of the eastern continental US was in part designed to make playing the game so much easier in April and May.  Because as we know, the hitters and the pitchers both fare equally poorly in the cold - you remember all of those scoreless tie games that went into endless numbers of extra frames here don’t you?  The games where the batters couldn’t make contact, couldn’t draw a walk and the hurlers couldn’t find the plate?

So what’s the problem now?  Perhaps it’s the difficulty the human body has in adapting from a freezing cold April climate, to a cold April climate.  I put the over/under on the story that finds some way of pinning an 0-8 (whoops, down 1-0 to the Braves after 3) start on Ottawa at two days.   Starting… now.

A pair of tickets to Opening Day to the first person who finds the story, or manufactures the best yarn.