A very tough week for New England-based AA teams; we got hit with very cold weather and over a foot of snow in New Hampshire and Maine this week - effectively neutralizing the Thursday Opening Day and Series efforts of the FisherCats and the EL Champion SeaDogs. Both Manchester and Portland postponed Thursday and Friday games; Portland has also given up on playing Sunday, and re-scheduled the season opener until Monday evening at 6PM.
As of late this afternoon, Manchester was still going to play on Saturday vs. Connecticut, first rescheduling the 1:05PM start until 3:05, and then to 4:05. The team's web site carried the following advisory: "Fans, please be aware there is still snow in many of the seating areas,
so we encourage you to wear boots if you come to Merchantsauto.com
Stadium today." It was in the 30s with 25mph wind gusts at game time. That said, note that Saturday at the FisherCats was Sovereign Bank Fleece Blanket giveaway day. Hmmmm........
I love baseball and have waited through a long off-season for opening day, but watching baseball while trudging to my seat in snow boots is too much even for me. We'll get started looking at players next week, though the weather is not predicted to be much better.
As of late this afternoon, Manchester was still going to play on Saturday vs. Connecticut, first rescheduling the 1:05PM start until 3:05, and then to 4:05. The team's web site carried the following advisory: "Fans, please be aware there is still snow in many of the seating areas,
so we encourage you to wear boots if you come to Merchantsauto.com
Stadium today." It was in the 30s with 25mph wind gusts at game time. That said, note that Saturday at the FisherCats was Sovereign Bank Fleece Blanket giveaway day. Hmmmm........
I love baseball and have waited through a long off-season for opening day, but watching baseball while trudging to my seat in snow boots is too much even for me. We'll get started looking at players next week, though the weather is not predicted to be much better.
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