The Marlins are having problems keeping their grass green:

“I would say the sod had as difficult an April as the team did,” team president David Samson said Monday.

That’s not good, because the Marlins went 8-14 in the season’s opening month.

The ballpark has drawn mostly favorable reviews, and the roof helped avert rainouts Sunday and Monday. But because the weather has been unusually wet for April, the grass hasn’t gotten much sun.

During the Marlins’ trip, the grounds crew will try sun lamps to help the grass, Samson said.

Keeping sunlamps on the grass? That sound suspicious. Maybe they’re trying to attract Tim Lincecum to the team.