Monday, August 22, 2005

MLB Scheduling Office

The MLB Scheduling Office must be populated with pinhead mongoloids or other mentally-challenged individuals. How else to explain why the Phillies and Mets, who just finished road trips in San Diego and Los Angeles last week came back to the east coast for six game homestands only to be booked back out west again this week for six games in Phoenix and San Francisco. Why not get all of the west coast games out of the way all at once? Why not have them travel half the distance for road games in Chicago or St. Louis or Denver? Why bring them all the way back for home games just to send them all the way back out again? Incidentally, the same miserable fate was not thrust upon the Braves, Marlins or Nationals who, between them, have only one west coast trip left. Why the schedule imbalance in their favor? This trip will be the straw that breaks the Mets' and Phils' backs in the Wild Card race. You can't expect teams to travel cross country twice in 10 days and still be operating on all cylinders.

If you ask me, I think they need to figure out a way to get all of the west coast travel done by July 31st and no later for all east coast teams. It'll level the playing field for everyone. Furthermore, why is it that the Yanks, Red Sox and the rest of the AL East will play two series in Seattle, Oakland, Texas and Anaheim this year but only one series in Minnesota, Chicago and Cleveland? Why on earth does the MLB Scheduling Office think it's better to send east coast teams to the west more than to the midwest? I'd rather watch the Yanks play the Indians than the Mariners. Who cares about the damn Mariners?

4 comments:

Mighty Mike said...

I can never figure out why the play series so close together. I mean the Indians were done with the Red Sox in May but still have like 2 more series against Tampa.

Why is Tampa good all of a sudden (e.g. best home record since the All Star break) aren't there laws against the Devil Rays winning?

MJ said...

To Mike: Tampa is good because they're getting performance out of their youngsters (Johnny Gomes, Jorge Cantu), because Crawford is one of the game's best players and because Aubrey Huff finally woke up and decided that the 2nd half of the season seemed like a reasonable time to start trying again. They still have horrendous pitchers besides Scott Kazmir but they've got some of the most awesome minor league talent on the way up (BJ Upton, Delmon Young, Joey Gathwright) and Rocco Baldelli will be back next year. If they could find some way of getting 3 arms to go with Kazmir, they'd honestly be close to .500 next year.

To Beth: I have no idea why the off days are scheduled in such an unbalanced fashion. I'd love to chalk it up to anti-Yankee sentiment at MLB HQ but I know that's not the case. I think it goes back to my original theory that the MLB Scheduling Office is manned by two pinhead mongoloids who moan and fart all day.

Mighty Mike said...

Thats fairly insulting to mongoloids. We all know the MLB scheduling is handled by Steve the squid.

Gutsy Goldberg said...

Most sports have their own scheduling departments. Bud Selig just lets his 8-year-old grandson do the scheduling. I bet EA Sports comes up w/ more logical schedules.