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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Braves’ schedule off to strange start
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s opening day! Sort of.
The Red Sox and A’s have played a game that counts, even though it was halfway around the world, so I guess that makes it official. Sort of.
The Braves don’t have to cross the International Date Line, but they will have a wacky start to their season. After playing two exhibition games in Atlanta, they’ll fly to Washington to help the Nats open their new stadium Sunday night, fly back to Atlanta for the home opener on Monday night, then have an off-day Tuesday before resuming their three-game series against the Pirates on Wednesday.
This sets the tone for another year of an unbalanced number of division games, bizarre interleague matchups and ill-timed West Coast trips. So let’s take this opportunity to talk about the schedule.
Do you like the recent changes? Do you think the division schedules and interleague games give some teams an unfair advantage or does it all work out in the end?
By the way, one interesting note about MLB scheduling: For 24 years, it was done by hand by a Massachusetts couple, but in 2005, MLB started accepting bids to take advantage of newer technology. Here’s the story from MLB.com. Can you tell the difference?
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