April 9 - Pet Peeve Monday - Baseball Scheduler

This week’s PET PEEVE MONDAY goes out to Katy Feeney. Ms. Feeney is the official scheduler for Major League Baseball. She does it by hand, without a computer, and apparently without a weather map.

This past week there were home games scheduled at:

* Washington (30 degrees)
* Chicago WS (32 degrees)
* Colorado (snow)
* Philadelphia (40 degrees)
* Cincinnati (snow flurries)
* Cleveland (snow)
* New York (33 degrees)

Meanwhile the following warm weather teams played away from their favorable climates:

* San Diego Padres
* Florida Marlins
* Los Angeles Dodgers
* Arizona Diamondbacks
* Oakland A’s
* Texas Rangers
* Tampa Bay Devil Rays
* Atlanta Braves
* Minnesota Twins (dome)

The Cleveland series with Seattle resulted in a all four games being postponed. The games SHOULD have been scheduled to be played in Seattle. They have a retractable roof on their field.

It is not that HARD to schedule games. It is not that HARD to know that it snows in April in Cleveland. It is HARD to believe that they still use an antiquated method to schedule ALL of Major League Baseball games.

When I think of Katy Feeney, I think of Ms. Gracie, the High School secretary from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Edie McClurg played Ms. Gracie. Ms. Gracie was probably on top of her game at some point, but time and skills had passed her by. That was the point of her role in the movie. The same can be said of Ms. Feeney.

Katy, Don’t Bar the Door, go through the door on your way to retirement. Let someone that has a concept of weather, computers, and stadium availability, and stadium capabilities (i.e. roofs) take over.

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