#NerdsUnite: Baseball and meteorology together on the field

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @Jeffw171

My adventures of working in baseball for almost the past three years got me thinking, “what if I chose a different career path like meteorology?” Nerds like weather radars, right? I mean – how can we not? It impacts what we wear and sometimes even our moods. In my case, it affects how long my shift at work will turn out to be.

I really like it when both teams play and there are clear skies because, well, the game is shorter.  Here in the east, for whatever reason, we’ve had an absolutely dreadful April as far as weather is concerned and it has impacted me at work.  I find myself more often than not looking at radars and seeing how long a storm will take to get through the area of a game.

I mean really. I didn’t sign up for this! I’m trained to be an editor/writer not a damn meteorologist. If I wanted a career where I had to track weather I would have just tried to work for a TV news station and be wrong 50 percent of the time. No, I chose a career based on facts not checking weather forecasts and how dark the green, yellow or red is on a map. Let me just stick to sports not how weather will affect my night – or future nights for that matter.

I guess sports and meteorology really do go hand in hand though. I don’t really appreciate having to deal with it, but it does help keep my nerd credentials. In a way that makes me happy.

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