Why does baseball start the season so early now?

Scribbled Notes: A history of Opening Day's arriving sooner; baseball in the snow, team-wide steak dinners, the team that played 225 games, and the woman who broke her foot for Henry Aaron

Baseball season is underway, and while most people are discussing torpedo bats, most of the conversations in my world are about how cold it’s been.

My team, the Albuquerque Isotopes, opened in Sacramento. It was overcast, cold and windy in the capital of California. Then we came home. It’s been colder and windier in the Land of Enchantment all week. On T…