So much
for the dual day games by both the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox played Monday.
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| The ONLY first pitch Monday afternoon, as I viewed it on television. No, I wasn't up to braving the 35-degree temperatures or the snowfall. Photograph by Gregory Tejeda |
It seems
the Monday morning snow caused the Cubs to reschedule Monday’s game for
Tuesday. Monday was supposed to be the Cubs’ home opener for 2018. But the Cubs
tried to make things a little cutesy , with photographs of ballplayers
throwing snowballs and taking "selfies" of themselves on the slushy Wrigley Field turf
AS FOR
THE White Sox, they were the team that rescheduled their night game Monday to a
day game, figuring it would be a little less cold for the fans.
But as
groundskeeper Roger Bossard said prior to the ballgame, he figured out a way to
use lawnmowers as makeshift snowblowers. Between that and turning on the hoses
to spray the Guaranteed Rate Field turf with 50-degree water, the White Sox
were able to melt and clear away the snow.
Making
it likely that the White Sox get in their ballgame with just a little delay
(about 1:30 p.m., rather than the reskedded 1:10 p.m.). Which the White Sox thought was a better option than playing two games Wednesday against the Tampa Bay Rays.
All I know
is that in my home neighborhood, I took the dogs for a walk in the morning and
they enjoyed the light snowfall that, oddly enough, didn’t accumulate at all on
sidewalks or the streets, but only fell on the grass.
BUT THEN
QUICKLY melted away everywhere.
Considering
that we’re supposed to get temperatures up to about 60 degrees by Wednesday, we
can only hope this is the end of winter snowfall – only about three weeks after
winter officially ended.
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