Make the most of the snow by taking inspiration from these ice skaters at Metropolitan Stadium
Metropolitan Stadium manager Bill Williams, right, and groundskeeper Dick Ericson, skim along on ice skates on some six inches of ice just 18 days before the Minnesota Twins and the New York Yankees meet in their American League baseball opener in the Twin Cities in Minneapolis, March 25, 1965. The field has been cleared of a heavy snow, but the thick ice coating remains. Williams and Ericson did the skating to point up the hard winter and nearness of the baseball season. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)
(Gene Herrick/AP)
If you're one of the millions on the Eastern seaboard bracing for snow this weekend -- lots and lots of snow -- we have some advice: Make the most of it. Take inspiration from the crew at the Twins' old Metropolitan Stadium. When you have a (metaphorical) ballpark filled with snow and ice less than three weeks before the start of the season, like they did in 1965, you just gotta skate right on top of it.
So, keep that in mind when you're shoveling for the 42nd time on Saturday and any other time the clouds dump gargantuan amounts of snow on you.
Or, if you really get fed up with it, you can always go the Brewers route and grab a helicopter to melt it all:
