With the Mets Opening Day in question due to inclement weather in the forecast for Queens, Sal posed the question to BT if he would be OK with New York teams putting a roof on their stadiums to prevent rainouts.
Sal was shocked to hear that BT would have no issue with it.
"I would take them. Totally," BT said. "Convenience. You keep it open. You only close it when you have to…I get it, aesthetically it looks a little odd, but better than not playing."
Sal hates when the Mets are rained out, and hates it for young fans who are excited to go to the ballpark that night, but he still wouldn't want to see his home stadium with a retractable roof.
"I used to hate, more than anything else, waking up on a day where I knew I had tickets to go to a game, and seeing a rainout," Sal said. "There was nothing more demoralizing…but no, even with that unknown, and I hate the unknown…I still would not want a dome on Yankee Stadium or Citi Field.
"It's baseball. It's not meant to be played in a dome. Yankee Stadium with a roof on it?"
As a compromise, BT said teams that consistently battle inclement weather in the opening week of the season should start their seasons on the road where postponements are much rarer, if not nonexistent.
"I don't know why they don't just start these teams, everybody in the northeast, on the road," BT said. "You could even have some divisional matchups. You could have the Yankees and the Jays play in Toronto, you got the roof. You have the Trop down in Tampa…there's a way to do it.
"Maybe Baltimore, a couple hundred miles south, maybe you get that five degrees of extra warmth."
