A POWERFUL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM

April 15, 2007 ... Including the six games postponed today, there have been 21 postponements in the first two weeks of the baseball season.  No team has been more victimized than the Cleveland Indians, who could not play four games against Seattle last week at Jacobs Field when it snowed to beat the band in Cleveland. Then the Indians' series against the Angels last week had to be shifted to Milwaukee, where the stadium has a retractable roof. Even as they were playing at Miller Park Wednesday, a record 5.2 inches of snow was falling outside.

Yesterday there was rain to deal with; a scheduled doubleheader at Pittsburgh against the Giants was washed out, as were Washington at New York, Houston at Philadelphia, Kansas City at Baltimore, and Angels-Red Sox.

Because of the nor'easter, yesterday's game was called shortly before 10 a.m., as Sox players trickled in to work out or just hang out.