SNOWED OUT: The Yankees' 2003 home opener against the Twins, scheduled for last night, was snowed out due to last night's snowstorm; the status of tonight and Thursday's games are unknown at this point. Now I'm not one of those yahoos who cites even the most minor of snowstorms as proof of the nonexistence of global warming, but I am of the mind that snow in April, the week after summer-like weather, which causes the cancellation of baseball games, just plain sucks. Too bad the Yankees don't have a dome!*
My other beef is with the schedule: as an expatriate Twins fan on the East Coast, I was hoping for the chance to possibly see the Twins on the road this year. But unfortunately, due to the unbalanced schedule, they now play exactly one road series against each AL team not in the Central division (meaning East and West). And due to this year's interleague rotation, the Twins will play the NL West teams- unlike last year, when they played the NL East and I got to attend the first-ever Twins-Mets game at Shea. Therefore, the Twins won't be travelling to Flushing or Philly, and their one and only Yankee Stadium appearance this season is the current mid-week series (which makes it next to impossible for me to get to the Bronx for any of the games). The Twins' only Boston road trip is in May on a weekend when I can't travel, and Baltimore's too far to go just for one game, so it looks as though my only chance to see the Twins this year will be the old-fashioned way: at the Metrodome. Either that, or the unlikely event that they'll postpone last night's game until a snow-free Sunday in mid-July. I would like that.
*No, I don't really wish the Yankees had a dome. But if they did, I would be in favor of trapping them in it.