Blame Ottawa
Posted by Carl on April 11, 2008
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.
April 11, 2008 at 10:28 pm
That is why they are having Eskimo night on Wednesday with free tickets and ice to all cold provinces or states hoping some one from Ottawa will drive down
April 11, 2008 at 11:25 pm
We are now at 11 runs scored in 9 games for les porcs de fer. Rochester scored 7 in their home opener (41 degrees, rain) tonight.
I have to say there was something strangely gratifying about seeing a 4-3 Syracuse lead on the board despite the fact Rochester had committed 3 errors, had scored 3 runs, but had yet to record a base hit! Here’s to soggy April baseballs.