Chew on this: Baseball might be coming up short on seeds

CBS SportsLine ^ | April 27, 2005 | Scott Miller

[jolie560]

What?" says Los Angeles Angels equipment manager Ken Higdon. "There's always enough of those."

Correction: There always was enough of those.

This summer, producers are squeezing together all of their resources -- and still plan to ration what they have to make it through the season. There is a chance some players and coaches actually will be forced to play the game this summer with no seeds at all in their mouths.

"It's a possibility," says John Sandbakken, director of international marketing at the National Sunflower Assn. in Bismarck, N.D. "Our farmers didn't have a very good crop last year, and supplies are down."

Saturating rains last spring combined with an unusually wet fall to throw the ol' high, hard one past unsuspecting farmers in important sunflower states North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota.

[jolie560]

No problem--just pull back the cigarette ban in the dugout and the managers, and most coaches and players will be fine.

[Republicus2001]

Lou Pinella - heh