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To: Pappy Smear
They had an interesting discussion on the sports radio station here in NYC this morning.

One of the hosts pointed out that the combination of two things has led to a pending disaster in the MLB schedule this season:

1. A lot of early season rainouts.

2. Unbalanced schedules and inter-league play that limits the number of road trips to cities outside the division.

They used the Yankees-Tigers weekend series in Detroit as an example of how disruptive this will be. They got in the first game of the series on Friday night, then had a rainout on Saturday. They scheduled a day-night doubleheader on Sunday to make up the Saturday game, then had that rained out as well.

So the Yankees and Tigers have to make up TWO games in Detroit later this season ... but since they don't play in the same division the Yankees aren't scheduled to travel there again in 2018. So MLB will have to either schedule a doubleheader on an off day, or they will have to move the two games to New York in September and play them as Detroit "home" games.

54 posted on 04/16/2018 12:12:17 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Alberta's Child
The Yankees @ Detroit double header that was rained out yesterday has been rescheduled for June 4th.
I assume the games (1pm, 7 pm) will require separate admissions.
62 posted on 04/16/2018 12:26:15 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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