thursday - game one. friday - rainout. saturday - doubleheader. sunday - postponement. monday - off-day. and there is no rhythm to the early season.

this week brings three home games (tuesday-thursday), five commuter road games in four days (friday-monday). commuter games mean that we travel to and from the game day of...we'll depart the 'port around noon, bound for cedar rapids. we return from cedar rapids postgame, which means arrival about 3 hours after the final out. they're long days. that doubleheader (probably about a 230 start saturday - - meaning 10 a.m. 'port departure - - will be rough.)
we're really looking forward to a week from tuesday, which will bring our first actual road trip of the season, four games in beautiful battle creek michigan. and we're looking forward to seeing all 5-10 and 260 pounds of prince fielder, lil' cecil, starting tuesday.