[mhays]

If it's 80+ and humid, I'd sure as hell want to be in air conditioning.

Hell, if it's 70 and not humid but in the sun, I'd want shade. How people can sit in the sun is beyond me.

Seattle has a retractable roof though it's just an "umbrella" and not an enclosure. We don't use the roof very often and even then it's often just for a short time -- Seattle gets a fraction of Miami's summer rain -- but during the shoulder seasons in particular, it gives people reassurance beforehand, when they'd otherwise wonder if the game might get cancelled and might get rained on.

Two of my favorite things about baseball are the designated hitter rule, which above all reduces the substitutions of the boring NL game, and never, ever getting rained out.

On that note, back when we had NBA in Seattle, one of those games was rained out. Somewhat unusual.