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2012
My Quibble With The Schedule Makers And Opening Day Word Play
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This is just a quick annoyance of mine, but I had to get it off my chest.
Hey, schedule makers! I have a bone to pick with you. I am this close to challenging you all to a match at Wrestleman… Whoops. I think I will try the more traditional way of approaching this.
If you have been following the Mets schedule, you know that the Mets played the Yankees Tuesday afternoon and had to migrate down to Tampa to play them on Wednesday afternoon as well. Right after that, the Mets have to hop on a flight back to New York to play their Opening Day game against the Braves at 1:10 on Thursday.
Bear with me, I understand that is not some three stages of hell schedule. I know Spring Training is stacked with as many games as possible in a row and the managers have the ability to let their players rest, so you can see that is not my problem. The Mets start their season against Atlanta in New York, and it would have made much more sense to start their season in Atlanta because the team is already making a trip down to Tampa for the game on Wednesday. The home-and-home at the end of Spring Training is no problem for the Yankees, who start their season against the Rays in Tampa.
Yes, there are much more important concerns that should be on our minds, but I think it would have been more intelligent to start the season in Atlanta considering they had to make a little trip Monday to get back to their home field, make another trip Tuesday to get to Tampa, and then make another trip back to NYC to start an early game against the Braves – one that actually counts.
Now that I got that all out off my chest, a friend of mine emailed me asking if I was going to throw together any amusing poetry for the 2012 Opening Day. Inspiration has not struck me, but I figured I would put something small out there for fun because it will lighten the mood.
2012 Mets
Silver anniversary this time around – it’s been fifty years.
I think I can promise that this team won’t leave you in tears.
There isn’t much to say about this team that hasn’t already been said.
If we somehow won the World Series, I’d probably drop dead.
Keep cheering, keep believing, it’s really all we’ve got.
Across the city, our cross-town rivals have the oldest team money has bought.
I’ll be out there at Citi – for some games and some fun.
And no matter what, I’ll be around when the season is done.
So come one, come all, and watch these Mets again.
I’m sure you’ll find something to smile about – at least once every now and then.
About the Author: Satish Ram
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| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 24 | 18 | .571 | - |
| Nationals | 23 | 20 | .535 | 1.5 |
| Phillies | 20 | 23 | .465 | 4.5 |
| Mets | 16 | 24 | .400 | 7.0 |
| Marlins | 11 | 32 | .256 | 13.5 |
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I’m still trying to understand why the Mets wouldn’t have wanted to be back in NY a day early before the opener so they could take practice – especially for the OFs who are going to be getting used to the new dimensions.
Hard to rationalize it. Maybe because guys like Wright and Torres need the AB’s?
the regular schedule is set first, so they did it on purpose. I assume they wanted the match up bad enough to put up with it?
I don’t think it is that big of a deal though. They will be in NY by dinner time (I assume they were just going straight from the game, flying out of Tampa),
per the post, not sure what difference it makes playing in NY vs. Atlanta. other than the flight being a little shorter? At least it inconveniences the braves!
a day might have been nice, but they are starting to click, so keep it rolling!
Watching that game today, I’m really wondering ‘why bother’?
After the third inning, I can’t say I even knew most of those guys who came in as substitutions for the Mets. Have to assume the same scrubs or low A guys were in there for the Yankees too.
Other than the one inning of work from Pettitte, there didn’t seem to be much point to that game.
But hey, Ike hit his 3rd HR in as many games.
Probably because the schedule makers didn’t or do not care about the Mets/Yanks Spring Training games. Don’t forget the last time the Yanks traveled to PSL was 1995.
The Spring schedule was set and announced on November 14th. The regular season schedule was set and announced 2 months earlier on September 13th.
Therefore, you can put the blame more on the Mets than the schedule makers. They wanted the revenue from the PSL home game, so they had to agree on the road game. They knew their schedule 2 months before they ever had to put the Spring schedule out.
I’m not really sure, but don’t the teams make their own schedules for ST? Or does MLB have some input on that? I thought is was pretty much up to each club.
still, not really that big of a deal. They will get home early this evening, and anyone playing tomorrow pretty much relaxed today anyway!
Just hope that practicing on the back field got them used to the new dimensions (more an issue for the OFs) but even if they had today off, would not have done much more than a walk through. Hell, they probably fly into Loquardia, just swing by on the way out!
at least the Braves won’t have any exposure at all to it.
And it’s the YANKEES that wanted the game in PSL, due to a long travel time back from Miami to Tampa.
The walls came in a couple of feet, it’s not like it’s a new park. They can get a feel for it on Field 7 in Digital Domain. And take fly balls if they want Tomorrow Morning.
More important to get the game in every day I think. The regular grind of setting up and preparing for a game, and getting a couple of AB and all that. They’d have had to take an hour bus ride to the airport anyway, only 3 hours to Tampa, it’s really a non-issue.
Does it really matter if they are home or away !!