The Orioles play their first night game at Ed Smith Stadium tonight against the Pittsburgh Pirates, who train next door in Bradenton. It's a good matchup, because it's only a short drive back and the young Pirates won't get home after curfew and get put on restriction by their parents.
It's also a cool thing to watch exhibition baseball at night. It'll be a particularly cool thing tonight because I hear it's going to be freezing, by Sarasota standards. It's 39 degrees right now at the Sarasota/Bradenton International Airport (which is why I won't be sunbathing at the airport today) and it's probably going to drop into the 40s tonight during the game. I'm sure somebody will tell Chris Tillman to put on his jacket between innings.
The Orioles haven't had a home night game in quite awhile, because the lights at Fort Lauderdale Stadium didn't work the past few springs. Reason No. 235 that Sarasota is a better place to hold spring training than Fort Lauderdale. There's probably a joke in there about how many South Floridians it takes to screw in a lightbulb, but the people in Fort Lauderdale were very nice and they tried very hard to make that situation work for the Orioles.
Let's just leave it at The Schmuck is glad he stopped here.