Petition to play the first few weeks in the south or domed stadiums.
I've always thought they should do this.
Not sure they could completely schedule it out, but they could certainly mitigate the weather for at least the first week of the season, maybe 2.
I get the idea but at the same time I absolutely love going to opening day, probably because it's typically the high point of the Mets season. Alas
I get the idea but at the same time I absolutely love going to opening day, probably because it's typically the high point of the Mets season. Alas
Yeah, I think you would have to keep the home openers everywhere, as there's too much emotional attachment to it. But you could do an opening series in cold weather cities in April, and then play mostly in warmer weather/domed stadiums for the first couple of weeks.
eh - it's a solution searching for a problem.
a weekend series does fine in the early months. week days, not so much. this doesn't necessarily change in the southern teams / domed stadiums.
houston, for example. let's go back to 2019. your Tuesday to Thursday home games were in the 20s, your weekend games were in the 35k+ range. then once school lets out, tuesday to thursday also jumps into the mid to upper 30s.
these things won't change no matter where the game is played...
Petition to play the first few weeks in the south or domed stadiums.
Any team that decides to build a new stadium should have to have a retractable roof.
Meow.
Any team that decides to build a new stadium should have to have a retractable roof.
Have you not watched enough of the Rays?
The one thing that's great about the Rays is that you don't have to worry about a rain delay/rainout.
When the Yankees built Yankee Stadium III, they should have paid the extra 200 million and put a retractable roof on the thing. I hate this discussion, but MLB should make it mandatory for a team to have a retractable roof on any newly built stadiums. Could you imagine the Twins playing late October/early November baseball?
The one thing that's great about the Rays is that you don't have to worry about a rain delay/rainout.
When the Yankees built Yankee Stadium III, they should have paid the extra 200 million and put a retractable roof on the thing. I hate this discussion, but MLB should make it mandatory for a team to have a retractable roof on any newly built stadiums. Could you imagine the Twins playing late October/early November baseball?