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David Haugh: Mother Nature must really hate baseball, America's national frost time

CHICAGO - April baseball constantly reinforces the risks involved in drawing conclusions based on small sample sizes, but we have seen enough snow and cold this month to know one thing for sure.

Chicago's springtime weather stinks.

That goes for the rest of the Midwest, too, as the White Sox can attest after having three weekend games in Minneapolis snowed out, and, while we're clicking on Google Maps, the Northeast as well. Monday's postponements of Red Sox-Orioles in Boston, Blue Jays-Royals in Toronto and Cubs-Cardinals at Wrigley Field increased the total around the

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