Baseball Is Snowblind

Considering over half the teams in Major League Baseball play in warm weather climates, or have a roof over their stadium, you'd think that the schedule makers would be smart enough to plan accordingly. Listen up schedule maker person.

Next season let's not schedule any home games in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, New York, Boston, you get the point. It's just not that smart.

Take for instance the four seperate snow delays they had in Cleveland on Friday before they finally called the game off. They also had to cancel the Twins/White Sox game in Chicago due to the cold temperatures.

At least that game never started, the Indians meanwhile, got screwed. Cleveland had a 4-0 lead on the Mariners and were one strike away from an official game. That's when the "Human Rain Delay" Mike Hargrove did the smartest thing he's done in years.

He ran out onto the field and somehow managed to convince crew chief Rick Reed to delay the game a fourth time due to the conditions. Why Reed would call for a delay when the game's only a pitch away from being official, I'll never understand, but he did and a little over an hour later the game was called.

"We obviously ended up on the south side of things," said Cleveland manager Eric Wedge. "Everybody was fighting for what they wanted and what they believed was the right thing to do."

Lost in all the idiocy of the schedule makers, and Rick Reed is another factor that should be taken into consideration when playing games like these.

Injuries.

What happens if the strained left quad Cleveland catcher Victor Martinez suffered while running to first turns out to be a serious injury, and he has to miss a lot of time? The Indians could be without a big member of their team after he played in a game that didn't count, and never should have been played in the first place.

It's just stupidity. Pure and simple.