Unlike football season where games take place once a week, and basketball season when weather can't affect a game being played, baseball season gets tricky for everyone.
In the middle of the seasons' change games are expected to be played in the mid-late afternoon, the perfect time for abrupt weather conditions. It doesn't only switch things up for the kids, coaches and families (and for me, of course). It creates a lag in the season's schedule that I had forgotten only until this week when I realized I had to check the weather to make sure I made it to one game, period.
Tennis, track, golf and soccer also take place in the spring. Add softball and baseball and it can be a problem. Those diamond sports take place three times a week in any given week. That, for me, means scheduling to attend the latest game possible, but staying one step ahead of the weather. Even then, there's still the one or two games to catch up with from earlier that same week.
Now in week two, my schedule is on the drawing board. It's hard to plan knowing you will likely have to reinvent the schedule at least a handful of times before the summer sets in. It may complicate my planning even further, but the most important thing I factor in at the end of the day is that I be sure I am evenly distributing coverage to the schools - even after soaking in all other factors.
