As the so-called World Series of baseball had game four rained out Wednesday night, a shudder started to spread through the north of the US and into Canada.

It wasn't a shudder caused by cold. Temperatures in the mid-40s Fahrenheit (around 5 C) are normal at the time of year, as is a nightly frost. People in these parts make sure their kids' Hallowe'en costumes are insulated against bitter cold.

It was a shudder caused by the suggestion that the World Series be moved to a warmer, neutral territory.

Strange how this was never mentioned when the Yankees were racking up back to back titles and establishing a dynasty.

But Detroit, who have seen their earlier playoff games bumped back to afternoon starts to accommodate the larger audience of the New York Mets; and St Louis, who beat the Mets in that series, are being asked to jump on a plane and go play their series in Florida.

Florida is for spring training. It's where the teams go to warm up for the season without snapping a tendon in late winter conditions.

Equally, Hallowe'en is a time of year more associated with the game of American football than baseball in most parts. Baseball is a summer sport. This is most definitely not summer. A biting wind and the crunch of dry leaves under the feet, or even a wintry sleet blizzard are more the sort of Friday Night Lights weather, where high school kids get huddled up in coats watching their classmates knock two senses out of each other.

If there's something wrong with cold baseball, move the calendar, not the event.

After a hundred and sixty regular season games and an exciting playoff run, don't steal the big prize from a city that needs it. Detroit and the state of Michigan have waited a long time for this. Twenty two years is not exactly a Red Sox or Cubs wait, but it's long enough for a state with the worst or next-to-worst unemployment rate in the nation for the past five years.

Don't take this glimmer of joy away. Detroit and Michigan need this.