Mets Schedule 2018

[Frayed Knot]

Two regular season games in March, I see. I have a feeling that Citi Field might be awfully cold on March 29.

Let's see if they're brainless enough to schedule that first Saturday game at night. I'm sure they will. TV drives everything. AVG temp increases by about 3 degrees a week through March/April. So making the season start 2 days earlier is worth about a degree. imperceptible. Maybe a miniscule increase in snow possibility too? And in at least half the cities the temperatures are warmer than that anyway.

Well at least the March 31st game -- 1st Saturday of the year, 2nd game of the season -- is sked for 1:10 rather than at night.
In April it turns out that only one of the four Saturdays is at home (Apr 14 vs Brewers) and that one is dumb-ass-edly slated for a night start
The others are one day game (@ Nats - Apr 7, 1:10) and two at night but those at least are in Georgia (4/14 - 7:10) and SoCal (4/28 in Sandy Eggo, 5:40 local time)

[Edgy MD]

Check out that super homestand wrapping around The All-Star Break in July. A travel day off on July 5, even though they are only coming down from Toronto, 10 days of home games, a four-day All-Star Break, a three-game road trip-that-isn't against the Yankees, followed by three games hosting the Padres. Take advantage, Mets. That's like three solid weeks of waking up in your own bed.

Well, except for Harvey.

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: Well, except for Harvey.

[Frayed Knot]

Taking a closer look at the schedule as a whole, I find it's about as good as can be hoped for concerning late night games.

The SD road games (late April) fall on a weekend so only the Friday game is a 10:10 start and that's not even a school night so I'm allowed to stay up later. Saturday moves up to 8:40 EDT and Sunday is at 4:10

The mid-June road trip (15th - 21st) is going to be the tough one for east coast viewing:
- it starts with four games in Phoenix 9:40, 9:40, 10:10 (Thur - Fri - Sat) then 4:10 on Sunday, and is immediately followed by a Mon-Thurs four game set in Denver: 8:40, 8:40, 8:40, 3:10

And finally there's the usually dreaded SF-to-LA trip starting on Aug 31st, but that begins on the weekend so only Friday by the bay is late [10:15, 4:05, 4:05] and the Dodger series falls over Labor Day
giving us an 8:10 holiday Monday start, followed by 10:10 but then an unusual 7:35 get-away-day kick-off on Wednesday. Besides, we might even have the division sewn-up by then.

In addition, moving over to the Central time zone, four of the ten games @ Cubs or @ StL or @ Milwaukee are day games, giving us just six more starts (not counting the ESPN-SNB affairs) that are post-8:00

So, particularly after last year's deal of having to face both the NL & AL West squads, this year is a helluva lot better with only four times where they drop the puck after 10:00 and never twice in the same series.
Then there are two other post-9:30 starts and four more that get underway after 8:30

Edited March 14, 2018 by Guest

[nymr83]

I actually like the 10 pm starts as they are the only ones I can guarantee I will be able to relax and watch without threat of imminent interruption

[Frayed Knot]

Which is fine if you can, a) stay up past 1:00 AM, and then, still get enough sleep to be able to get to whatever you need to go the following morning.

And the real problem isn't the occasional 10:10 start but those weeks where there were four, five, sometimes six in a row, or last year when there were around a dozen games overall which started that late.
Those situations are the real killers for east coast folks and I'm betting most of them would opt for four late starts/year rather than 10 - 15

[G-Fafif]

HEY! OVER HERE! I STILL HAVE 37 GAMES LEFT!