They could avoid this problem by just scheduling early and late season games in warm weather cities or those that have domes. For whatever reason or reasons they chose not to and thus you have snow or rain which results in cancelled games etc etc.
It will be 50 and sunny for opening day at Fenway for the Pirates Red Sox game. Don’t know why we are opening with interleague play.
Yep they could do those things with the schedule.
Part of the problem is how the schedule has stretched out, with more and more layers of playoffs, which pushes baseball into greater chance of bad weather.
Opening Day is April 2 this year, with game 7 of the World Series scheduled for November 1.
Contrast with some dates in the past. Bob Feller pitched his opening day no hitter on April 16, 1940. Jackie Robinson made his debut on opening day, April 15, 1947. Bill Mazeroski’s walk off homer in game 7 of the World Series of 1960 was on Oct. 13, 1960.
I think that tweaking the schedule, so that the regular season started around April 20, and the World Series finished by about October 15, would take care of 90+% of weather issues for baseball.
But then, how do you squeeze multiple playoff rounds plus a 162 game season into a shorter time frame?? How do you work with the TV networks who televise the playoffs, to compress the playoff schedule??? Those issues may make change impossible.