Should MLB adjust its schedule to avoid inclement weather early in the season?

0 Comments | USA TODAY, April, 2007 | by Jorge L. Ortiz

The next thing you know, they'll want to put domes atop Wrigley Field and Fenway Park. It gets cold at those ballparks in April, right?

The unusual number of first-week postponements because of chilly and snowy weather has some wondering about the wisdom of scheduling early April games in cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and New York.

Why not play the first week in warm-weather cities and domed ballparks, where only the beer is cold?

Because myriad factors enter into scheduling 2,430 games in a season, and climate is easily the least predictable one. Even so, a total of eight games were called off in the season's first week from 2002 to 2006, so this is hardly an epidemic.

Possible solutions could create more problems than they...