23rd February 2004, 3:28 PM
As he said it's more for sun, and because baseball plays twice as many games as any other sport, and many times more than other outdoor sports (not sure how many games in a soccer season... is it more than football? If so not my huge amounts -- still a small fraction of a baseball season...). Oh, and tradition -- there have been dugouts for a long time so there are dugouts. :)
Oh, and you make up rained out games (that don't get through 5 innings), and with the 162 game schedule you have the time to do so --sure there are more games but you are used to playing more so moving a few games wouldn't matter nearly as much as in other sports... and it's just impossible to play, which is the main reason. :)
Oh, and you make up rained out games (that don't get through 5 innings), and with the 162 game schedule you have the time to do so --sure there are more games but you are used to playing more so moving a few games wouldn't matter nearly as much as in other sports... and it's just impossible to play, which is the main reason. :)