April 4, 2007

I’ve said it before …

By Doug Hill in Doug's Dispatches, Fungoes | 2 comments

I was going to simply comment on Mike’s post below re: weather conditions in April, but I figure he’s given me the opportunity to contribute so I’m throwing this out to the masses to feed on. It makes too much sense – I know –and it would cost owners bucks. Therefore it’ll never happen.

 Let me know what you think.

  • Step No. 1 - Shorten the season back to 154 games. Take this week off the end of the year so the season ends the next-to-last week of September instead of the final/or first of October.
  • Step No. 2 - Play the first week of regular-season games at the Spring Training parks. Each team would host one three-game series (preferably against a division foe since they already see each other 19 times). Series would be M-W and F-Su. Guaranteed sell outs for all six games; the snowbirds would eat this up.
  • Step No. 3 - The next week of the season is played at either traditionally warm-weather locales or domed stadiums (games begin Tuesday as Monday would be a travel day).
  • Step No. 4 - Cold weather clubs may return home. It would now be the third week of April when most locations will at least have passable weather.

There, I’ve said my peace and I’ve put it out there to baseball fans. What do you all think?

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2 Comment(s)

  1. Alex | Apr 5, 2007 | Reply

    Hey man,

    agree with everything except the stay south for the first week thing. I dont think anyone will treat it as a regular season game from up north and it will still feel like a spring training game. baseball in detroit in early april is a tradition, and i hope it never changes. the rest of that makes perfect sense though, as there are often a bunch of games in certain months (cough cough, yesterdays game, and semilikely todays game) that have very high forgetability guotients. I know that every game counts and some teams are virtually eliminated by the end of april, but who remembers a tuesday 105 game thats like 1-0 and there were 6 people there to watch it. they all seem to be this way in april and a little more in may, though the may games seem more homey because its usually warm enough to be comfortable and then more people go because it feels like summer in detroit more than it does in april. chao!

  2. Kurt | Apr 5, 2007 | Reply

    I’m not a big fan of step number two. Nor snowbirds. I’m going to suffer, they’re going to suffer! But that would cost the teams quite a bit of money too, I’d think, as even the cold weather teams sell more tickets (and I’m not meaning opening day) on a Wednesday than their spring training stadiums seat. Frankly, I’d rather my team have those bucks!

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