Yes, many of you are sitting at home right now warm and comfy in your flannel jammies sitting in cushy recliners watching the Tribe on television.  No one in his or her right mind would be watching baseball in person right now.  You're the smart ones because, to be quite honest, if I didn't have to work I wouldn't be at Jacobs Field right now.  It was freakin' 31 degrees with a wind chill of 20 by the time Paul Byrd tossed the first official pitch of the home campaign.  Ummmm YEAH!!!

"Take me out the the ball game.  Take me out to the crowd.  Buy me some peanuts and hot chocolate…"  That just doesn't quite have the same ring as the normal lyrics, does it?  Nope.  What I would love to do is meet the mental midget that scheduled the Home Opener for the first week of April against a West Coast team that only travels here once.  Hello…is there anyone home McFly?

Had this been a A.L. Central Division foe, this game would have been postponed, primarily because even Eskimoes wouldn't have played baseball in the type of weather we've seen today.  Wouldn't things work just a wee bit better if MLB made sure teams in more meteoroligically challenged cities were on the road for the first week of the season?  Perhaps that makes much too much sense.