2009 Tentative Cubs Schedule

by Al on Sep 17, 2008 1:13 PM CDT in News

Take a break from the push to the playoffs to peruse the 2009 schedule. I'll add times as I get them -- all times CDT. (HOME GAMES IN CAPS)

April 6-7-8: at Houston (6:05, 7:05, 7:05)
April 10-11-12: at Milwaukee (3:05, 6:05, 3:05)
April 13-15: COLORADO (1:20, 1:20)
April 16-17-18-19: ST. LOUIS (1:20, 1:20, TBD, 1:20)
April 21-22-23: CINCINNATI (7:05, 7:05, 1:20
April 24-25-26: at St. Louis (7:15, TBD, 1:15)
April 27-28-29: at Arizona (8:40, 8:40, 2:40)
April 30, May 1-2-3: FLORIDA (7:05, 1:20, TBD, 1:20)
May 4-5: SAN FRANCISCO (7:05, 1:20)
May 6-7: at Houston (7:05, 7:05)
May 8-9-10: at Milwaukee (7:05, TBD, 1:05)
May 12-13-14: SAN DIEGO (7:05, 7:05, 1:20)
May 15-16-17: HOUSTON (1:20, TBD, 1:20)
May 19-20-21: at St. Louis (7:15, 7:15, 7:15)
May 22-23-24: at San Diego (9:05, 9:05, 3:05)
May 25-26-27: PITTSBURGH (7:05, 7:05, 1:20)
May 28-29-30-31: LOS ANGELES (7:05, 1:20, TBD, 1:20)
June 2-3-4: at Atlanta (6:10, 6:10, 6:10)
June 5-6-7: at Cincinnati (6:10, 6:10, 12:10)
June 9-10-11: at Houston (7:05, 7:05, 7:05)
June 12-13-14: MINNESOTA (1:20, TBD, 1:20)
June 16-17-18: WHITE SOX (7:05, 1:20, 1:20)
June 19-20-21: CLEVELAND (1:20, TBD, 1:20)
June 23-24-25: at Detroit (6:05, 6:05, 12:05)
June 26-27-28: at White Sox (3:05, 12:05, 1:05)
June 29-30, July 1: at Pittsburgh (6:05, 6:05, 6:05)
July 2-3-4-5: MILWAUKEE (7:05, 1:20, TBD, 1:20)
July 6-7-8: ATLANTA (7:05, 7:05, 1:20)
July 10-11-12: ST. LOUIS (1:20, TBD, 1:20)
July 14: All-Star Game at St. Louis
July 16-17-18-19: at Washington (6:05, 6:05, 6:05, 12:35)
July 20-21-22: at Philadelphia (6:05, 6:05, 12:05)
July 24-25-26: CINCINNATI (1:20, TBD, 1:20)
July 27-28-29: HOUSTON (7:05, 7:05, 1:20)
July 31, August 1-2: at Florida (6:10, 6:10, 5:10)
August 3-4-5: at Cincinnati (6:10, 6:10, 6:10)
August 7-8-9-10: at Colorado (8:05, 7:05, 2:05, 7:35)
August 11-12-13: PHILADELPHIA (7:05, 7:05, 1:20)
August 14-15-16: PITTSBURGH (1:20, TBD, 1:20)
August 17-18-19: at San Diego (9:05, 9:05, 9:05)
August 20-21-22-23: at Los Angeles (9:10, TBD, TBD, TBD)
August 25-26-27: WASHINGTON (7:05, 7:05, 1:20)
August 28-29-30: NEW YORK (1:20, TBD, 1:20)
August 31, September 1-2: HOUSTON (7:05, 7:05, 1:20)
September 4-5-6: at New York (6:10, 12:10, 12:10)
September 7-8-9: at Pittsburgh (6:05, 6:05, 11:35)
September 11-12-13: CINCINNATI (1:20, TBD, 1:20)
September 14-15-16-17: MILWAUKEE (7:05, 7:05, 7:05, 1:20)
September 18-19-20: at St. Louis (7:15, TBD, 1:15)
September 21-22-23: at Milwaukee (7:05, 7:05, TBD)
September 24-25-26-27: at San Francisco (9:15, 9:15, TBD, 3:05)
September 29-30, October 1: PITTSBURGH (7:05, 7:05, 7:05)
October 2-3-4: ARIZONA (1:20, TBD, 1:20)

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Why does the season start so late?

And end so late? October 4? Does MLB want a November World Series next year?

by J.Bo on Sep 17, 2008 1:16 PM CDT 0 recs

It's going to get one.

Why is it later? Because the alternative is starting on March 28. Also, the WBC is taking up some time next March.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 17, 2008 1:18 PM CDT up 0 recs

They'll still be cleaning up the streets in Chicago from the celebration!

Nobody cares about your fantasy league team

by carmen_fanzone on Sep 17, 2008 3:25 PM CDT up 0 recs

I like your thinking!

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by neverAcquiesce on Sep 17, 2008 3:31 PM CDT up 0 recs

How's this for a ridiculous sequence of cities?

From April 23 to May 12 — a period of 20 days — the Cubs go from Chicago to St. Louis to Phoenix to Chicago to Houston to Milwaukee to Chicago.

Get the college professors back. This computer outfit doing the schedule sucks.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 17, 2008 1:23 PM CDT 0 recs

+1

Reed Ballgame - best CF in the MLB

by californiachicagoan on Sep 17, 2008 3:40 PM CDT up 0 recs

Remeber when this is all we had to talk about?

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand. - Homer J Simpson

by MikeOxbyg on Sep 17, 2008 1:25 PM CDT 0 recs

Can the MLBPA not step in and get stupid things like the scheduling fixed?

It’s that one of the actually useful things about the players union?

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Sep 17, 2008 1:26 PM CDT 0 recs

White Sox

Home series Tues Wed Thurs?
FAIL

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by Fuk-U-Meter on Sep 17, 2008 1:27 PM CDT 0 recs

First time ever a Cubs/Sox series not on a weekend.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 17, 2008 1:30 PM CDT up 0 recs

that doesn’t really bother me. They’re not even in our league, much less our division. It’s a manufactured rivalry, and anything that minimizes it is good, to me. I’d be perfectly happy to NEVER play the WhiteSox.

But I have another question: My son is moving in with me, and his mother is giving me all he clothes. Is it wrong that I’ve hidden the white-sox hat and jersey that she included?

Our 2008 Chicago Cubs -- FINDING WAYS TO WIN!

by drewishdrewid on Sep 17, 2008 1:52 PM CDT up 0 recs

Yes it's wrong

You should’ve burned them :)

by cubsonWGN4ever on Sep 17, 2008 2:02 PM CDT up 0 recs

Didn't they have a weird Thursday-Friday-Saturday series a couple of years ago

after the All-Star break?

Old Style is the nectar of life.

by Mordecai on Sep 17, 2008 2:57 PM CDT up 0 recs

Found it!

Thursday July 12 – Saturday July 14th, 2001. I believe this was also the last year they played interleague games after the All-Star break.

Old Style is the nectar of life.

by Mordecai on Sep 17, 2008 3:17 PM CDT up 0 recs

I actually like that...

… a guaranteed sellout mid-week is a good thing. (As if they’re having trouble drawing)

McCain / Palin: The POW / WOW! Ticket

by Goat Whisperer on Sep 17, 2008 2:37 PM CDT up 0 recs

I like ending the season

at home, at least.

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by drewishdrewid on Sep 17, 2008 1:28 PM CDT 0 recs

Lots of 2- and 4-game series

Is it just me, or are there more of those than usual?

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game." - Walt Whitman

by hip2bsquare on Sep 17, 2008 1:29 PM CDT 0 recs

There seem to be more four-gamers than usual.

Not that many two-gamers.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 17, 2008 1:30 PM CDT up 0 recs

I like that.

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by neverAcquiesce on Sep 17, 2008 1:54 PM CDT up 0 recs

3 straight years of October Cubs baseball

Thanks to this schedule :)

When was the last time that ever happened?

by ak123 on Sep 17, 2008 1:30 PM CDT 0 recs

Before the postseason was expanded, the regular season frequently ended in early October

so it’s happened quite a bit.

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game." - Walt Whitman

by hip2bsquare on Sep 17, 2008 1:31 PM CDT up 0 recs

Nevermind

I feel dumb for asking that now… :)

by ak123 on Sep 17, 2008 1:34 PM CDT up 0 recs

No need to feel dumb

I actually feel like a dork for knowing that, myself… LOL…

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game." - Walt Whitman

by hip2bsquare on Sep 17, 2008 1:36 PM CDT up 0 recs

Whenever I see October baseball scheduled

I make bets with co-workers Cubs will play in October early on. I always win.

by ak123 on Sep 17, 2008 1:41 PM CDT up 0 recs

First time in years

Cubs/Mets play a weekend series and it’s my birthday weekend in NY. Very happy about that. Dissapointed in interleague schedule again…Cubs get short end of this for fun matchups.

by ak123 on Sep 17, 2008 1:35 PM CDT 0 recs

what?

you’re not happy about playing Detroit? :P

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by drewishdrewid on Sep 17, 2008 1:53 PM CDT up 0 recs

Hey no ripping on detroit!

by madeindetroit on Sep 17, 2008 2:57 PM CDT up 0 recs

I'm in NY

Even if I knew we were scheduled to play AL Central I still hoped somehow we’d get an East Coast team…

by ak123 on Sep 17, 2008 3:43 PM CDT up 0 recs

Its selfish of me, but...

I’m pumped to get a 4 game series in San Francisco for the 2nd year in a row. Add in the fact that it will be close enough to my birthday that I can rationalize going to every game @ AT&T to my girlfriend and it will hopefully be in the middle of a pennant race and I’m already looking forward to the end of next year.

by dbaltman on Sep 17, 2008 1:43 PM CDT 0 recs

and its Friday-Monday!

I am definitely going to try and make a bunch of those games.

Reed Ballgame - best CF in the MLB

by californiachicagoan on Sep 17, 2008 3:43 PM CDT up 0 recs

Nice

Just realized it was the weekend. Makes it that much sweeter.

by dbaltman on Sep 17, 2008 5:41 PM CDT up 0 recs

I would like to see a list

Of all of the teams that have not played in a certain park since interleague play started. IIRC, the Cubs have played everywhere except where I would like to see them play the most: Fenway.

And yes, I understand that my wish is a possibility before next year’s interleague play.

by gocubsgo22 on Sep 17, 2008 1:43 PM CDT 0 recs

They should have played this year

There’s no excuse for them not putting The Cubs against Yankees or Red Sox this year. Unless someone in MLB decided they might have a chance of playing the World Series there and that’s why….

by ak123 on Sep 17, 2008 1:50 PM CDT up 0 recs

Its about the tickets sold

Fenway, Yankee Stadium… they’re going to sell our regardless. But you put the Cubs in Tropicana or Skydome and the attraction of the Cubs, their traveling fans, etc will result in more tickets sold than your average interleague series.

DmL

by dmlichte on Sep 17, 2008 2:42 PM CDT up 0 recs

Understand

And agree but at some point it has to happen. Every AL team has played at Wrigley (many more than once) and the Cubs have played every AL team on the road (many more than once), except Red Sox.

by gocubsgo22 on Sep 17, 2008 2:55 PM CDT up 0 recs

The Cubs have not played in Oakland.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 17, 2008 2:57 PM CDT up 0 recs

what about at kansas city?

"Pounding sand since 1982...."

by cubswynn on Sep 17, 2008 3:00 PM CDT up 0 recs

Yes, in 1998.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 17, 2008 3:16 PM CDT up 0 recs

The Angels have not played at Wrigley

Hopefully that will be remedied in a few weeks, but they have never played at Wrigley.

by Josh77 on Sep 17, 2008 3:24 PM CDT up 0 recs

Too bad they'll be 0-3 all time after this year.

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Sep 17, 2008 3:26 PM CDT up 0 recs

You mean 0-2

SWEEEEEEEEEEEP

by gocubsgo22 on Sep 17, 2008 3:29 PM CDT up 0 recs

Which is exactly why interleague play should be done away with...

….it takes the simple math out of the scheduling and makes it an economically weighted issue. When you think about how many races come down to 2 games or less and then you look at how unbalanced these schedules can be it’s absurd. You might as well have a BCS in MLB.

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by TXCub on Sep 17, 2008 2:56 PM CDT up 0 recs

Agreed.

I’m all for taking the games out. The NL Central is already at odds with the rest of baseball by having six teams anyway.

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by neverAcquiesce on Sep 17, 2008 3:12 PM CDT up 0 recs

Cleveland, Detroit, Minnesota...

and NO Kansas City. I like playing competition (how’d we miss out on BOS and NYY this year?) but this is one of the weaknesses of interleague play.

Plus, I was hoping we’d play at Kansas City and I could make the short drive.

Free Ronny Cedeno

by Kansas25 on Sep 17, 2008 1:45 PM CDT 0 recs

me too

I was hoping for games in KC! :(

by polly on Sep 17, 2008 2:05 PM CDT up 0 recs

ugh me too

"Pounding sand since 1982...."

by cubswynn on Sep 17, 2008 3:01 PM CDT up 0 recs

Damn...saw Minnesota, Detroit.....

Thought for sure I would KC on the schedule.

I am going to have to wait another….year to see the Cubbies play in KC. Damn. The last time they played here was sometime around 2000 I think?

Kaufmann would be Wrigley West if they played in KC. Just a ton of Cub fans in Iowa, Nebraska and S-N Dakota would get there too.

by mmancubfan on Sep 17, 2008 3:19 PM CDT up 0 recs

Probably 3-6 years....

as like the NFL……they rotate divisions….cept it looks funny b/c the CUBS vs. SOX are alwasys 6 games, Roylas VS> CARDS….Dodgers vs. Angles, Yankees VS> Mets. Ginats VS A’s………etc. etc…

The best defense is a good offense

by kcjones on Sep 17, 2008 9:35 PM CDT up 0 recs

How about this odd one

No weekend series in Pittsburgh. Unless I looked at the schedule wrong. I bet Pittsburgh banks on the weekend series to drive up their parks revenue. Really odd schedule…

by ak123 on Sep 17, 2008 1:51 PM CDT 0 recs

Except for Labor Day

9/7 is Labor Day, so that’s kind of a weekend.

I agree it’s strange. They’re only in Pittsburgh twice and in Cincinnati twice. Seems like they’d been in one of those two places every other week the past couple of years.

Eamus Catuli!

by wrigley_boy on Sep 17, 2008 1:58 PM CDT up 0 recs

Two trips to San Diego?

I guess that’s a plus in terms of playing a potentially weaker team, but that’s a lot of travel.

When is the last time the Cubs had to make two trips to one West Coast city during the regular season?

Eamus Catuli!

by wrigley_boy on Sep 17, 2008 2:04 PM CDT 0 recs

Since they went to 6 divisions in eaqch league....

I retract that…since Florida and Colorado joined the NL…that year the NL went to balanced scheduling….pre that year (1993???)….AL played balanced scheddule … NL…18 games VS. teams in dic=vision (3 seriees at home…3 on road) 12 VS. other division ( 2 on road 2 at home)…hence Cubs used to make 2 wwest coast swings every year…….If I remember right….used to usually hit all 3 at once….i.e. 3 is LA, 3 in SD, then 3 in SF……..all on same trip……

The best defense is a good offense

by kcjones on Sep 17, 2008 9:39 PM CDT up 0 recs

Is that possibly correct? 2 trips??

“Weaker” or not, the Cubs don’t play well in SD

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Sep 18, 2008 1:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

Can we move all the pittsburgh series to the first half??

Worked for us this year.

by cubsonWGN4ever on Sep 17, 2008 2:05 PM CDT 0 recs

Like facing them in the second half

after their annual “sell” for future prospects

by gocubsgo22 on Sep 17, 2008 2:56 PM CDT up 0 recs

I cant even begin to wrap my brain around next season right now.....

…seems like a long long way away.

"When I got to Chicago, fans came to Wrigley Field just to have fun, now they come to see us win. The expectations have changed, for the players and for the fans. It’s about winning." Kerry Wood, 7/14/08

by JB 23 on Sep 17, 2008 2:10 PM CDT 0 recs

Opening the season in Houston?

After the past couple days, the Cubs ought to receive a nice, warm welcome there.

by hokie316 on Sep 17, 2008 2:20 PM CDT 0 recs

..and the healing can begin.

by SplintChesthair on Sep 17, 2008 2:43 PM CDT up 0 recs

Ha.

Was Miller not available?

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by neverAcquiesce on Sep 17, 2008 2:53 PM CDT up 0 recs

I LOL'd

by iCub on Sep 17, 2008 2:55 PM CDT up 0 recs

What the hell is with the last few weeks?

At San Fran then across the country to again…Total BS

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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Sep 17, 2008 2:21 PM CDT 0 recs

I'm surprised to see this so early

Don’t they usually release (even tentatively) these in Jan/Feb? I feel like it was always MUCH later in the offseason, never while the previous season was going on

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by berselius on Sep 17, 2008 2:23 PM CDT 0 recs

MLB is saying this is the earliest the schedule has ever been completed

Even if MLB wanted to create the schedule this early, they should’ve waited to release it until mid-winter. Release it then, and it creates a “buzz” about baseball for a few days at a time when nobody is thinking about it; release it now, and it gets drowned out by the excitement of the playoff races. The NFL has done this to great effect by releasing their schedule in the spring every year. Bud Selig and his friends in the commissioner’s office need to go back and review Media Relations 101.

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game." - Walt Whitman

by hip2bsquare on Sep 17, 2008 2:33 PM CDT up 0 recs

Release

I was under the impression that it was up to the individual teams when they were going to release the schedule. In years past we pieced the Cubs schedule by going off of other team’s website. The Cubs historically were late releasing their complete home schedule.

DmL

by dmlichte on Sep 17, 2008 2:44 PM CDT up 0 recs

Correct.

MLB took it over this year. Every team’s schedule was released today.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 17, 2008 2:54 PM CDT up 0 recs

I like it all being released at the same time

but it still is “getting lost” at this time.

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by neverAcquiesce on Sep 17, 2008 2:55 PM CDT up 0 recs

TWSS

by gocubsgo22 on Sep 17, 2008 2:57 PM CDT up 0 recs

Two Trips to San Diego?

I realize that the schedule makers are on drugs when they draw up these schedules.
But two trips to San Diego? Unless I am wrong, I do not think that any team has made more than one trip to another city outside their own division. Also — I do not think that any team has played a team outside of their division more than four games per park per season. They usually try to do 3 and 3 but you might see 2 and 4 or even 3 and 4 but never 6 in one park. In fact, the 4 home and 4 away with the Dodgers is also a first time thing.
The schedule with the East is pretty well balanced. The West is totally out of wack. If they kept it balanced with the West, then they could balance the number of games with the Central. The Cubs play fewer games against St. Louis, Cincinnatti, and Pittsburgh.
In past years, it seems MLB tried to balance the schedule so the road trips made some sense. But that idea seems to have gone out the window as well.

by ceegeewow on Sep 17, 2008 2:29 PM CDT 0 recs

Cubs made two trips to Atlanta in 2007.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 17, 2008 2:54 PM CDT up 0 recs

Whoa nelly....

Pre Marlins/Rockies…..Teams always played 4 series against other division…2 home and 2 away…..Used to be 2 Cali (yes..I’m dating myself) trips a year….BUT…used to get the SD ..LA..SF ..all done in 1 trip….

The best defense is a good offense

by kcjones on Sep 17, 2008 9:43 PM CDT up 0 recs