I was a single parent this weekend. Jennifer went to Ohio to see our new-born nephew and I had the girls for the weekend.

It was very easy weekend as long as it’s OK to have sandwiches, fish sticks, chicken strips, and frozen pizza. We watched “Raiders of the Lost Ark” on Friday, played all day and went to the Rattlers game on Saturday, church and waterpark on Sunday and went to get Mommy from the airport on Monday.

I didn’t get any work done during the weekend but had a wonderful time just being dad. I crammed on Monday to read and watch everything I had missed. I’m still amazed Byrnes hit a GS. If I hadn’t heard it on the radio, (Sports 620 KTAR, of course) I wouldn’t have believed what I was reading.

The Eric Byrnes watch is up to .328. What is Byrnes watch? That’s the batting average he has to have for the rest of the year in order to improve on last year’s batting average. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for a player that had his salary doubled and guaranteed for three years to improve his game. Right now, Byrnes is trending down in every statistical category except for doubles and strikeouts. He is pacing to have 2 more doubles than last year but his strike-outs are also up.

After the series with the Giants, the D-Backs don’t play an NL West team until the 4th of July weekend. It’s their worst nightmare. The D-Backs struggle on the road and they’ve only beaten the Astros and Tigers in a series outside of the decision (and in case you didn’t know, they won those series at Chase Field). The D-Backs are 10-16 outside their division and 11-13 on the road. Now they have to address both issues. The D-Backs are 3-10 on the road outside their division. Hopefully there’s a positive since they won two in Atlanta because Friday’s win was the first in the “road+outside division” category since opening day.

An MLB schedule is always difficult to put together. Some teams share facilities or at least share parking lots with an NFL team and they need to plan accordingly in August and September. Other teams know of major events in their city. Sometimes those events are in conjunction with the team—Patriot Day in Boston—or the team wants to get the heck out-of-town because they don’t want to deal with headaches from a major event in town.

The D-Backs have a difficult situation. The heat of June and July puts a lot of fans on the road leaving town. However, it’s when kids are out of school and normally attendance for most teams spike during the summer months. I think it’s time for the D-Backs to stay home in the summer more often. I think this June road trip could send the team into a massive swoon. If I’m wrong, this team will make the World Series.