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Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

G-Fafif Aug 12 2019 10:32 AM

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/

G-Fafif Aug 12 2019 10:38 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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 Aug 12 2019 10:39 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

Help yourself... https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://twitdoc.com/upload/ericfishersbg/2020-National-League-Schedule.pdf

G-Fafif Aug 12 2019 10:40 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

https://twitter.com/ericfishersbg/status/1160951783813816326?s=21

Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 12 2019 10:46 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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

G-Fafif Aug 12 2019 10:48 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

https://twitter.com/greg_prince/status/1160955962812960768?s=21

bmfc1 Aug 12 2019 10:53 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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 Aug 12 2019 11:22 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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 Aug 12 2019 11:28 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 12 2019 11:37 AM

=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

Back-to-back series in the same vicinity have happened. In fact, it's happened in NY (SFG played the Mets and MFYs) and it's happened in Chicago.

Ceetar Aug 12 2019 11:37 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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

Gwreck Aug 12 2019 11:44 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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 Aug 12 2019 12:02 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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

Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 12 2019 12:04 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

5 home games by April 1. That's the major stoopidass thing on the schedule. Who's even going to go to them?

Ceetar Aug 12 2019 12:08 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

same people that always go to them?

bmfc1 Aug 12 2019 12:55 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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]

41Forever Aug 12 2019 01:01 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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 Aug 12 2019 01:23 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

=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.

I think we're long overdue for a change there; we can play the MFYs every 3 years like everyone else. In fact, spreading around the MFYs to other NL teams would probably be welcome by those owners as they are a top road draw. But my guess is that the permanent rivalries in other places also boost attendance as they do in NY* and accordingly aren't going anywhere.



*Except, perhaps, the MIA/TB series.

Lefty Specialist Aug 12 2019 01:43 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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

Frayed Knot Aug 12 2019 01:58 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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 Aug 12 2019 03:12 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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

They're idiots, and there's hardly any of them. 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. Non-opening day early season attendance is awful because of it.



Besides all that, September is probably the best weather-month in NYC* and they're quitting a week early on it.



*-Eyewitness weather

Frayed Knot Aug 12 2019 06:09 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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 Dec 09 2019 10:30 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Dec 09 2019 12:07 PM

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

G-Fafif Dec 09 2019 11:16 AM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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

nymr83 Dec 09 2019 12:52 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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 Dec 09 2019 01:51 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

=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.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 09 2019 02:38 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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 Dec 09 2019 06:24 PM Re: Mets to Begin Title Defense Early

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.

March/April formula:



1) Come to Flushing 90 minutes before game time

2) Have pork broth/soup dumplings in Flushing before the game from any one of a dozen SUPERLATIVE locations within 10 minutes walk of the stadium

3) Be warm through the 4th

4) Have, like, some fries or something afterward



They're home for the Braves on my birthday. Maybe I secondary-market it.