Five games in Major League Baseball were called off Sunday to due bad weather. That’s a nice way of saying that it was too cold to play. A few others could have been called off, but were played anyway. (It was 34 degrees in Boston.)

Everyone likes to talk about what a problem this is, but I have still haven’t see a workable solution to this issue.

“Just play the early schedule in a warm weather cities or domes” is the most popular “solutions,” but it is completely unfeasible for a number of reasons.

Look at a map and start counting. There’s 30 teams in the major leagues, so you’d need 15 facilities to pull this off even in the best situations. Five in California, Arizona, two in Texas, two in Florida, Atlanta plus domes in Milwaukee, Seattle and Toronto. That’s still only 14. So you’d  still need one, unless you want to count Kansas City or St. Louis. Over the weekend, the Royals played a home game while it was snowing.

But even with that, how exactly is that going to work? Are the Yankees, Mets and Red Sox just going to take a 15-game road trip to start the season? Do you think the southern teams would go for that since it would mean they’d have to make up those road games during the most important part of the season.

By the way, the season is more 15 games old and the miserable conditions are still a problem.

This problem is made worse by the unbalanced schedule that Major League Baseball has in place. If features 19 intra-divisional games — we’ve got to have the Red Sox vs. Yankees as much as possible — but that also means the Braves only go to Chicago one time. If one of those games gets called off (like it did Sunday), now you have to shoehorn a makeup in there somewhere, which is not a popular move, especially for the players. If you have a balanced schedule, even with interleague play, you’d have another shot at making that game up on the next trip on the schedule.

Until they went to the Miami this weekend, the furthest south the Pittsburgh Pirates had been all season was … Pittsburgh. The average game time temperature of their games has been 42 degrees. That shouldn’t happen. Teams should at least be able to play once or twice in the first few weeks in warmer climates. After mid-April, if it’s still cold in the northern climates, then that’s just the way it goes. But give them a series or two to play in reasonable baseball conditions.