For years, some New York private schools have sent their baseball teams for "spring training" in Florida, using their spring break week to play some warm-weather ball and live out a Derek Jeter fantasy, with chaperones.
Even the weather played ball.
If the weather plays ball, observers will experience a dark sky late in the evening after the waxing crescent Moon sets below the horizon – making it easier to witness the fainter streaks.
If this initial position doesn't work, the Shokalskiy's crew will keep their fingers crossed, hope that the weather plays ball and that the sea ice is not too thick for the ship to get through, and sail around the B09B iceberg to a backup location a few hundred kilometres down the coast.
Once the small, heavily weathered tar balls came, crews went to work, gathering roughly 1,700 pounds of oily waste.
The remaining 26 percent of the oil "is on or just below the surface as light sheen or weathered tar balls, has washed ashore or been collected from the shore, or is buried in sand and sediments," the report says.
Some kickers gleefully speculate that early in the season, when good weather helps the ball fly farther, about 50 percent of kickoffs could wind up as touchbacks.
The leaguewide statistics from the first week bear out what they feared: a spike in touchbacks early in the season, when mild weather allows the ball to carry.
Coming to Edinburgh for the Six Nations is one of the great trips – the Welsh fans love it and so do the players – now all we need is for the weather to play ball.
The pair added 202 for the second wicket as England, under the weather with the ball and unable to grasp the half-chances that can make such a difference, struggled to gain any control.
