Time for baseball schedule revision
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Good morning, all!
The New York Mets lost a doubleheader to the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Actually it was a split doubleheader, but why grapple over details. We will save that conversation for another day.
MLB needs a schedule makeover. Mets-Cardinals has always been a great rivalry, but here we are, just 20 percent through the schedule, and they are done playing each other for the season. Ridiculous? Ludicrous? Greedy? Pick all of the above.
Baseball has so diluted the meaning of its regular season by mandating each team must play every other team in each league, that it has eliminated one of its biggest strengths: rivalries. Mets-Cubs, Mets-Cards, Mets-Pirates, gone! For what? Mets-Rangers? Mets-Athletics? Mets-Angels?
Baseball is trying to fit the proverbial square peg into a round hole. Cut the BS and return to a schedule that makes sense.
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In case you missed it, 20 percent into the season and the $293M payroll Yankees are four games over .500. The $73M payroll Athletics are three games over .500. And the $79M payroll homeless Rays just stormed into Yankee Stadium and took two-out-of-three from the so-called Bombers. More on the failed Yankees in tomorrow’s newsletter.
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