Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

[G-Fafif]

What title I'm not yet sure, but whatever we call them in 2019, they'll be trying to exceed it or match it starting March 26, 2020.



https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/mlb-2020-schedule-includes-earliest-domestic-start-ever/https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/mlb-2020-schedule-includes-earliest-domestic-start-ever/

[G-Fafif]

Open vs Nats at home Thursday 3/26.

Close at Miami Sun 9/27.

Dick around with the AL West.

Closing Day homestyle Sun 9/20 vs Texas.

Was gonna look up Subway Series, but fuck that.

[G-Fafif]

Help yourself...



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[G-Fafif]

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

two separate West Coast trips in August making up for our so-called easy schedule this August I guess

[G-Fafif]

[bmfc1]

In a switch, the Mets will play on July 4 (because it's a Saturday) but not on Memorial Day (May 25).

They could have played SF and Oakland back-to-back but that would have made sense.

[Gwreck]

Scheduling Oakland and San Francisco games at the same time is unlikely to work out. Same reason that NL teams who have the Yankees on their schedule do not commonly play both teams in a row.



There are some dumb things on this schedule:

-a 7 game SF/SD roadtrip, followed by those exact same 2 teams coming to NY for 7 games.



-In June, there's a one-city road trip to Chicago, followed by a 3 game homestand, followed by a west coast roadtrip.

[bmfc1]

=Gwreck post_id=18577 time=1565630558 user_id=56]
Scheduling Oakland and San Francisco games at the same time is unlikely to work out. Same reason that NL teams who have the Yankees on their schedule do not commonly play both teams in a row

Edited August 12, 2019 by Guest

[Ceetar]

So close to baseball on my birthday. One day. Push that season earlier! next year maybe?

[Gwreck]

I know it has, but it's uncommon.



I'd also imagine it is more likely to happen when one series is a division matchup (eg. Reds play Cubs and White Sox at same time).

[HahnSolo]

Indians play at Citi and YS back to back in a few weeks.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

5 home games by April 1. That's the major stoopidass thing on the schedule.



Who's even going to go to them?

[Ceetar]

same people that always go to them?

[bmfc1]

Strength of schedule is not talked about in baseball but the Mets get the MFYs (per usual) 4 times and HOU 4 times while WSH gets 4 with SEA and their usual 4 with BAL.



From the message board at the 506.com

[bLOCKQUOTE]NL East vs AL West

Atlanta = 2H/2A Boston, 2H/2A Oakland, vs Houston, vs LA Angels, at Seattle, at Texas

Miami = 2H/2A Tampa Bay, 2H/2A LA Angels, vs Seattle, vs Texas, at Houston, at Oakland

NY Mets = 2H/2A NY Yankees, 2H/2A Houston, vs Seattle, vs Texas, at LA Angels, at Oakland

Philadelphia = 2H/2A Toronto, 2H/2A Texas, vs LA Angels, vs Oakland, at Houston, at Seattle

Washington = 2H/2A Baltimore, 2H/2A Seattle, vs Houston, vs Oakland, at LA Angels, at Texas[/bLOCKQUOTE]

[Guest 41Forever]

My birthday is April 3, and for a while there Opening Day was falling on the day or close to it -- and I sat through some cold, wet openers in the late 1980s. But now they've been playing for a week by then.

[Gwreck]

=bmfc1 post_id=18591 time=1565636147 user_id=73]
Strength of schedule is not talked about in baseball but the Mets get the MFYs (per usual) 4 times and HOU 4 times while WSH gets 4 with SEA and their usual 4 with BAL.

[Lefty Specialist]

Zeroing in on that early June 4-game set in DC. Hope they're not 20 games out by then.

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Zeroing in on that early June 4-game set in DC. Hope they're not 20 games out by then.

Oh I could easily see the Nats being 25 games out by then.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

=Ceetar post_id=18589 time=1565633305 user_id=102]
same people that always go to them?

[Frayed Knot]

At least those first three are all going to be day games so that'll mitigate the weather a little bit.

Of course the remaining 13 April home games will likely include at least 10 night games including the fucking Saturday so they'll deserve

all the stoopidass lack of attendance those games will generate.







I haven't checked out what the other teams' schedules are like, but do the Yanx get to play the Orioles 45 times again next year too?

[bmfc1]

There will be at least three Sundays when Gary, Keith and Ron are off, Howie is grumbling and we're missing the Mets until 7 PM:



March 29 7 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers

April 5 8:30 p.m. Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco Giants

April 12 7 p.m. St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs

April 19 7 p.m. Milwaukee Brewers at New York Mets

April 26 7 p.m. New York Mets at Atlanta Braves

May 3 7 p.m. St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers

May 10 7 p.m. Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees

May 17 7 p.m. New York Yankees at Houston Astros

May 24 7 p.m. Houston Astros at Boston Red Sox

May 31 7 p.m. Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Mets

June 14 7 p.m. New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox

June 21 7 p.m. Boston Red Sox at Chicago Cubs

June 28 7 p.m. Chicago Cubs at New York Yankees

July 16 8 p.m. San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers (Thursday night second-half opener)

July 19 7 p.m. New York Yankees at St. Louis Cardinals

August 23 7 p.m. GEICO MLB Little League Classic: Boston Red Sox vs. Baltimore Orioles

Edited December 9, 2019 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

They should play Sunday Night exhibitions in the offseason, regulation games on Sunday afternoons.

[nymr83]

It's been scientifically proven* that CitiField in April is at least 25% colder than anywhere in the city of New York at the same moment.

This post is months old but just cracked me up.

[Lefty Specialist]

=nymr83 post_id=28007 time=1575921165 user_id=54]

It's been scientifically proven* that CitiField in April is at least 25% colder than anywhere in the city of New York at the same moment.

This post is months old but just cracked me up.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Maybe they won't regret the contract. Maybe the richest baseball owners have so much goddamn money, more than ever, that maybe they're not running their teams with such a rigid eye on the balance sheet. Maybe some of them just want to win at all costs. Meanwhile, some people here are contorting themselves into triple pretzels trying to convince everybody, against all logic that Jeff Wilpon is either a competent owner or that he doesn't matter to the Mets fate and that Steven Cohen doesn't really want to take over the Mets.

[LWFS]

Lefty Specialist wrote: =nymr83 post_id=28007 time=1575921165 user_id=54] It's been scientifically proven* that CitiField in April is at least 25% colder than anywhere in the city of New York at the same moment. This post is months old but just cracked me up.

We always use the formula of 'lowest temperature predicted overnight' minus 20 degrees, and dress accordingly. Does this mean down jackets in May? Why, yes it does.