Weather

it's going to be cold in Flushing for the foreseeable future. the Monday and Tuesday games in Philadelphia (who ever heard of a two game series?!) stand a decent chance of being rained out. even when the team travels to Miami on Wednesday, they are facing a forecast of thunder storms. Thursday, on the other hand, looks like a perfect day for baseball in Florida, as long as it's not too humid. I hope the guys enjoy the good weather, because it's still going to be unseasonably cold when they come back to New York on Friday for the series against Atlanta. LHJ and I have tickets to the game on Saturday afternoon, and if my calculations are correct and Pelfrey starts in the same position in the rotation he started in today, it'll be Oliver Perez starting on the 21st. The high is predicted to be 51 degrees, which we'll probably experience, since it's an afternoon game.

the cold weather has had a clear negative effect on the play of pretty much everyone who's experienced it so far, but in particular for the Mets in Atlanta and since they've come home to Queens. It'll be interesting to see if the weather has a similar effect on the series between the Braves and the Mets at Shea as it did on their series at Turner Field. Mostly for the sake of the team's happiness, I hope the weather in D.C. is good when they get there after the home series with the Braves and Rockies next week (though the forecast doesn't go that far, the 10-day forecast for the area is promising). even if the forces at work that make our weather so freaking strange these days have not eased up by the time May rolls around, I'm confident the Mets will find warm weather in Arizona at the beginning of the month, and if they're lucky, in San Francisco too.

I sure hope spring comes soon-- baseball season and birthday celebrations are the only things keeping this extended part of winter from being terribly depressing.