A request this week to the Pacific League to please move back next season's Opening Day closer to where it belongs -- in April. I know the Pa League likes to begin play a week earlier than its Central League cousin, but is it going to start the 2007 season on March 24? This year, it began on Saturday, March 25.
Is one of the league sponsors a company selling hot coffee? Or a firm marketing frostbite lotion? A manufacturer of pocket-warming chemical packets or a maker of down-jackets?
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles staged their home opener on Tuesday, March 28, this year -- at night -- and played a three-game set against the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. Game 1 of the series was played in a cold rain and called in the sixth inning. There was an eight-minute snow delay on the second night, and there were snow flurries during the last game.