"This here was just a normal season for us," Adams said.

And that has always served him well during a normal season, which comes with a steady diet of off days for practice.

But, he said, "our normal busy season is beginning early this year."

For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond.

They were supposed to stop by November, the end of a normal rainy season.

A normal growing season with plenty of water during dry spells will set things right for them.

First, there are just far more games required of major leaguers, 162 in a normal season.

This was not, he repeated several times, a normal season.

While three or four weeks is not critical in a normal 82-game season, it will account for nearly one-third of this year's games.

Most other regional factors indicated the likelihood of a normal season.