Rain, rain, go away!

There’s an old song that says, “Rainy days on Monday’s always get me down.” Well, it wasn’t a Monday (a Tuesday actually), and I am here to emphatically state that I am tired of the rain. If I even here the word ‘drought’ this summer, I’m going to march down to the TV station and spray paint “Remember May?” on their weather screen. Or I might send a strongly worded e-mail to them. Or I might just stay at home and gripe about it on my blog. But I’ll definitely do one of those three.

Back on track. Tuesday night was our second rain-out of the young season so far. The whole league is getting slowly derailed by the lousy weather so far. I hate rain-outs. I gear myself up all day to play in the evening, and when the game gets rained-out, it’s kind of depressing. Plus, I hate the hassle of trying to reschedule games.

Sidebar - our two rained out opponents have been phenomenal in working together with us to get these games rescheduled quickly – Thanks!

The only thing I hate more than having a rain-out is having to miss a game due to some other responsibility, which would have been the case last night. So I’m glad the game was rained out so I didn’t miss it, which kinda nullifies my whole previous rant, I suppose. We’ll call it a Catch-22.

Sidebar 2 - Yesterday, I had to attend a business meeting in Pittsburgh. While I thoroughly love the opportunity to return to my home area, it does kinda suck to spend 7-1/2 hours on the road (round trip) for a 5 hour meeting, of which only 1 hour actually applied to me. At least I got a cool backpack and a great lunch out of the deal.

We have a make-up game tomorrow, but the weather report isn’t looking promising yet again. As annoying as a rain-out is, getting the make-up game rained out is even more annoying, because you start running out of days to reschedule the make-up game. And this season, more than previous years, it’s vital to get all the games in, since every game counts in the standings this year. I’d hate to miss a possible 1st round bye because we only played 34 games rather than 38, and came up 2 games out of the Bye position.

June and July have to be less wet than May, don’t they? Where’s a Farmer’s Almanac when you need one?

Interesting factoid that may interest only me: Over the last 2 or 3 seasons, I don’t think we’ve had more than two total rain-outs. So the fact that we have had two already this season is pretty significant, at least in my eyes.