2008 Woodie Awards
Mother Nature not avid baseball, softball fan
Colleen Sheehy
Issue date: 4/13/07 Section: Sports
Originally published: 4/12/07 at 4:08 PM EST
Last update: 4/12/07 at 4:08 PM EST
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In three years of attending Plattsburgh State, I have become very familiar with the whipping cold wind and the absurdly low temperatures - but not in mid-April.
This isn't going to be about how much I hate the fact that I still have to wear a sweatshirt under my Northface and that I want spring to come so I can party out in the front yard of some random fraternity house - it's about the damn baseball games.
All of baseball, softball and track and field have been affected by this cold, nasty weather lately. Lacrosse, however, makes out alright with the new turf field.
It's just really unfortunate to not only the fans, but also the players, that all these games are being postponed.
Granted, in the North Country at least, this weather is expected within the first week of the season, which makes it even more beneficial that the teams travel to Florida to get the season started. Yet now that we're into mid-April, it's getting kind of depressing. Look at Cleveland.
Schedules are tight enough for these athletes later on in the season, and having to worry about a make-up game must be rough. For athletic directors to coordinate a good date and time for both teams must also be no easy task. A solution to this would be simple. Expand on the Field House and build an all-purpose olympic-sized baseball dome...
That was a joke, you're allowed to laugh.
But wouldn't that be great? Not only for the PSUC audience, but for the North Country in general.
The portion of the Field House where track and field, baseball and softball practice is a good all-purpose gym area, but in no way big enough or equipped to play a collegiate game of baseball.
It could be a community arena. It could host concerts. It could be a big deal, but I could also wake up from dreaming any minute now.
Being that we are a Division III school, getting funds from the state budget, tuition and donations, a dome facility is obviously out of the question - for the immediate future at least.
It could make Plattsburgh a known SUNYAC school, with athletes actually saying, "Oh man I can't wait to play Plattsburgh so we can play in the dome."
Who knows? In 2030 the Cardinals may have a nest in a nice, warm, always fair-weathered dome.
And as I said before, it could host so many more events rather than just baseball and softball.
I'm talking in the distant future, the very, very distant future.
By then Al Gore's biggest fear could come true and global warming might completely eliminate a need for a dome in the first place. But I'm the kind of person to hope for the best and plan for the worst, even if it is more than 20 years from now.
This isn't going to be about how much I hate the fact that I still have to wear a sweatshirt under my Northface and that I want spring to come so I can party out in the front yard of some random fraternity house - it's about the damn baseball games.
All of baseball, softball and track and field have been affected by this cold, nasty weather lately. Lacrosse, however, makes out alright with the new turf field.
It's just really unfortunate to not only the fans, but also the players, that all these games are being postponed.
Granted, in the North Country at least, this weather is expected within the first week of the season, which makes it even more beneficial that the teams travel to Florida to get the season started. Yet now that we're into mid-April, it's getting kind of depressing. Look at Cleveland.
Schedules are tight enough for these athletes later on in the season, and having to worry about a make-up game must be rough. For athletic directors to coordinate a good date and time for both teams must also be no easy task. A solution to this would be simple. Expand on the Field House and build an all-purpose olympic-sized baseball dome...
That was a joke, you're allowed to laugh.
But wouldn't that be great? Not only for the PSUC audience, but for the North Country in general.
The portion of the Field House where track and field, baseball and softball practice is a good all-purpose gym area, but in no way big enough or equipped to play a collegiate game of baseball.
It could be a community arena. It could host concerts. It could be a big deal, but I could also wake up from dreaming any minute now.
Being that we are a Division III school, getting funds from the state budget, tuition and donations, a dome facility is obviously out of the question - for the immediate future at least.
It could make Plattsburgh a known SUNYAC school, with athletes actually saying, "Oh man I can't wait to play Plattsburgh so we can play in the dome."
Who knows? In 2030 the Cardinals may have a nest in a nice, warm, always fair-weathered dome.
And as I said before, it could host so many more events rather than just baseball and softball.
I'm talking in the distant future, the very, very distant future.
By then Al Gore's biggest fear could come true and global warming might completely eliminate a need for a dome in the first place. But I'm the kind of person to hope for the best and plan for the worst, even if it is more than 20 years from now.
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