Last year North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota — the key sunflower-growing states — had a cold, wet Spring. High-selling soybeans crowded the fields. And then there was the nasty, white mold. The Agriculture Department says this season's harvest is down 29 percent. Production of the large sunflower seeds grown for human consumption hasn't looked this bleak in more than a decade.

What does all this mean, you ask? According to the article "Baseball's Seedless Spring" from the Washington Post, it means that baseball players might run out of sunflower seeds this season.

Clearly, they don't know what they're talking about.

Who cares about baseball players when you live with a bird that will peck your eyes out if you run out of tasty seeds?!?!