The month of May is becoming a washout for the Intercounty Baseball League.
About a dozen games on the 2017 schedule have been postponed by weather. There will be a lot of make up dates crammed into the season's later months.
Hard to be a Card so far. The Hamilton Cardinals have managed to play just one game all month. They were scheduled to host the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight, but wet field conditions have caused another postponement.
This month of May has felt more like April. The planet's seasons seem to have become displaced, as if everything has shifted back a month.
Think about it. We have had April showers all month long, even though it's May. Then summer will click on like a light switch, and it will last deep into September, maybe even into October. Everything cools off in time for Halloween, but then the cool autumn months seem to carry over into the new year. It barely ever snows in December anymore. When the snow does come, it's for briefer periods, punctuated by flash ice storms rather than lasting snowfalls. Temps finally rise above freezing sometime in March or even April, which makes for a delayed spring.
And the cycle repeats.
I don't know what caused this displacement of the traditional seasons on the western calendar. Even calendars can be unreliable. There is a theory floating around out there that several centuries of recorded history never actually happened because people keep effing around with calendars.
Anyway, the seasons are shifting. That is my theory.
I don't know the reason why. I am not a professionally trained climatologist, nor do I have a PhD in any of the applied sciences, but I do have a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a pair of eyes. Those count for something.
The Mapes will be back on the road in Guelph tomorrow afternoon, taking on the Royals at Hastings Stadium in the Royal City. First pitch is 2:00, unless it rains again.
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