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.

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

Home series Tues Wed Thurs?
FAIL

at home, at least.

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

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.

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.

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?

Worked for us this year.

…seems like a long long way away.

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

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

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

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.

without the day off following the opener.

+ 1,000,000

Streaming at 93xrt.com

This one really surprises me. While the Brewers have sold 3 million tix this year if they continue to spiral, miss the playoffs and lose Sheets and Sabathia, their tickets sales is going to regress significantly. It seems to me that this was a waste of a Cubs at Miller Park series, which is going to be a sell-out regardless. The home opener weekend is going to be a sell-out (or near sell-out) for the Brewers regardless of who they play. I realize that there are a lot of complexities to this all but this just seems to be a waste.

Other notes…
- Two trips to Houston in the first 30 days of the season with all three trips there before the All-star break?
- Five trips to the NL West? What happened to the traditional West Coast trip? Instead they are only playing one western swing that involves more than one NL West city.

DmL

makes me realize how quick this season has gone….. I need at least another 2 months!

So go tell them “you’re welcome”.

…it destroys the symmetry/balance to the schedule. It might be an interesting exercise to sit down in the offseason and write a schedule with the same interleague matchups that MLB has chosen. But with those series in there it complicates the schedule and ensures that someone will get screwed.

Us Cubs fans in Michigan will be there in full force. Hey Tigers! When do single game tickets go on sale?

Actually, if there are Cubs fans who have not seen the new “Tiger” stadium, the really did do a nice job when they built “Coma” (Comerica Park). It would be worth the drive to catch a game.

And stop by and check out the Lansing Lugnuts on your way. Minor leage baseball is fun and inexpensive. I recommend “Thursty Thursdays” when beer, pop and dogs are all $2.

Yes, I said beer (Labatts) for $2.

Assuming the Cubs last game in Detroit on the 25th is a day game, you’ll have plenty of time to catch the 7:05 Lugnuts “TT” game that evening (if the Lugs are in town…). Perhaps they will be playing the Peoria Chiefs that week. Who knows?

How close do you get to the action? Check out my avatar…yep, that’s Ryno.

I would like to thank MLB for the fourth game consolation prize.

one game I can make next year.