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Global warming alters major league baseball outcome


Yesterday morning, as my daughter headed out to her school bus, anticipating another October day of 80 degree weather, in NE Ohio, she said to me, “Mom, do you think this has to do with global warming?”

I turned her around by her backpack straps, kissed the top of her lice-free locks and wished her a good day. Ironically, early yesterday morning, my middle school son had asked me the same thing.

I told him that we’d have to look at some information before we could draw a conclusion but I agreed, it wasn’t how October usually plays out.

The Cleveland Indians winning the second in the best of seven series against the New York Yankees at Soon to be Renamed Home Baseball Field also isn’t how it usually plays out. But I’ll take it, and a lot better than the Yankees took another sign of unusual times: swarms of bugs.

From the Associated Press:

Umpire crew chief Bruce Froemming said he never considered stopping the game, which will surely go down as one of the strangest in postseason history.

“It was just a little irritation,” he said. “We’ve had bugs before. I’ve seen bugs and mosquitoes since I started umpiring. It might not be a perfect scenario. Within about 45 minutes, basically they were gone.

“There was just about a 10-minute period where everybody was lathering up,” he said.

Well, depending on how much history there is in the future, this game may be only the beginning of a new era.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:50 am October 6th, 2007 in Cleveland+, Environment, Ohio, Sports 

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4 Responses to “Global warming alters major league baseball outcome”

  1. 1 bill sloat on October 6th, 2007 11:27 am

    Hi Jill –

    I’m in my drought stricken yard on a day in October when the temp is supposed to reach into the 90s. It feels like Florida has come to me, only there is no beach in driving distance. I know some people call it globaloney. I think I’m eating a sandwich. And if it’s globaloney, it’s a double decker on wry.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on October 6th, 2007 9:52 pm

    Thanks for that, Bill. I also just watched Lisa Renee’s cute video of her trip to the UMIchigan game and everyone looks like they’re at a July baseball event. Very very weird. Have you read or heard about that book re: if all people disappeared, what would happen to the Earth?

  3. 3 Average Jane on October 7th, 2007 5:26 am

    Again, Jill, you’ve picked a very post-worthy topic. I’m not a baseball fan, but to see that Yankees pitcher with HD (high definition & heavy duty) widges all over his fat neck was bizarre…North Coast people I know call the bugs “Canadian soldiers.” Apparently they only hatch in high heat. That was one strange infestation at the Jake.

    I believe the book you are referring to is The World Without Us by Alan Weisman: http://www.powells.com/biblio/0312347294?&PID=31231
    It creeps me out to think that all that will be left of Columbus when we’re gone is a gargantuan Christopher Columbus bronze statue.

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on October 7th, 2007 10:49 am

    Jane- you just gave me chills reading that description of seeing the pitcher in high definition with the widges on his neck! Oh God! What an image on a Sunday morning – when the house is completely empty and still except for the sound of the fridge. Eek – I’m rolling my shoulders over and over thinking of that image – thanks a lot!! :)

    Yes yes – that is the book. I heard the author on NPR a few weeks ago. It’s one of those books I really want to read, but frankly, I’m a little afraid to read, if you know what I mean.

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