NASHVILLE: Typical baseball weather

By Chris Lee - April 06, 2007

On my drive to Vanderbilt's Hawkins FIeld, I saw snow flurries, not a normal site for a Nashville April day.

Then again, it's baseball weekend in Nashville, which is a sure-fire recipe for poor weather. While it's hard to feel too sorry for Commodore coach Tim Corbin, who has America's No. 1 team, you have to feel for his plight as he tries to build a fan base in Nashville.

The Hawk" is a beautiful, fan-friendly park with reasonable ticket prices and has just been expanded to almost 2,100 seats, but it's hard to build a fan base (which, BTW, was non-existent before his arrival) if it's 30-45 degrees every game, or raining if it's warmer.

Let's hope this doesn't hurt the Commodores' chances of hosting a Regional or a Super Regional; it shouldn't, as the turnouts have been good on the rare occasions when the weather has been nice, and reasonably good even on the bad weather days. But attendance figures are sometimes the bottom line, and if the selection committee is just looking at butts in seats and not considering how the climate is costing the team hundreds of fans a game... it shouldn't happen, but you never know.

In any case, it'll be Vandy's David Price (5-0, 2.88, 59.1 IP, 89 K's) vs. 'Bama's Miers Quigley (4-0, 2.63, 51.1 IP, 51 K's) in about an hour.