With rain falling in both St. Louis and Detroit and delaying the two league championship series, something silly hit me considering this blog is focusing mostly on baseball and hockey.
Why does hockey, an indoor sport now but whose earliest origins saw the game played outdoors on frozen-solid ponds, end its season when the late-spring conditions are normally gorgeous throughout North America and begs people to want to be outside rather than jamming into arenas in June?
Contrast that with baseball, an outdoor staple for spectators that screams summer and hot weather, finishes its season in brutally cold late fall October conditions, usually culminating with the World Series hosting several games in the frigid Midwest or Northeast.
I realize I'm not the first genius who's thought of this. But who cares? Welcome to Ironyville.
Why does hockey, an indoor sport now but whose earliest origins saw the game played outdoors on frozen-solid ponds, end its season when the late-spring conditions are normally gorgeous throughout North America and begs people to want to be outside rather than jamming into arenas in June?
Contrast that with baseball, an outdoor staple for spectators that screams summer and hot weather, finishes its season in brutally cold late fall October conditions, usually culminating with the World Series hosting several games in the frigid Midwest or Northeast.
I realize I'm not the first genius who's thought of this. But who cares? Welcome to Ironyville.
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