El Nino & Baseball

[Quaffer]

If you check out the link below, you'll see one climate guy's take on the coming rainy season -- in short he says it's 100% guaranteed to be a doozy of historic proportions.

Besides checking gutters and the drainage route around our garage this of course has me thinking about baseball! And I'm wondering what you area old timers can tell me about how NCS play was affected back in other El Nino years like 97-98 and 82-83.

Here in the north bay, where there is little turf but plenty of poorly drained grass, I'm thinking it could be a hell of a mess with more rainouts than games until April. So what to expect? Extending the season is not an option. Truncated league play? No rescheduling of rained out pre-season games? Adding one game per week during April and May? Moving every game possible to the few available turf venues?

And how would transfers be treated? I believe transfers who are in a sit-out period can start playing around April 1st. So if most of Feb and March games are rained out, do they still get to play starting at the same date?

In other news -- boys soccer is moving to the winter. What could go wrong?

http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/3607

 

[mshNASTY]

In 97-98 I remember January begin the wet month where it rained something like 27 of the 31 days and poored for 17 straight. Creeks in the east bay where flooding in some areas. Hopefully for baseball's shake it hits mostly in January and not during tryouts and the start of the season.

 

[NCSF]

In 97-98 I remember January begin the wet month where it rained something like 27 of the 31 days and poored for 17 straight. Creeks in the east bay where flooding in some areas. Hopefully for baseball's shake it hits mostly in January and not during tryouts and the start of the season.

I don't listen to experts as they normally are wrong. That said, things always work out. Regarding quaffer's question on transfers, I honestly doubt that's an issue. There just are not that many and that's usually more of an issue in the fall.

 

[TiredAct]

not NCS but at De Anza College right field was a quagmire the ENTIRE season... RF was ankle deep in it and his cleats never had a chance to dry out... pretty sure Cabrillo didn't play any home games that year, either