First Look - 2008 Schedule

by Flip27 on Oct 28, 2007 10:18 PM EDT Comment 7 comments

No one posted this yet, so I thought I would:

http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/schedule/tentative.jsp?c_id=min&year=2008

I love opening and closing at home! It spreads out the homestands so that the season seems to last a bit longer for those of us who have season tickets.

The interleague games aren't very nice. We host Washington again this season (WTF?), as wells as Arizona, and of course, Milwaukee. The Twins will visit Colorado, Milwaukee, and San Diego in the NL.

The Twins ticket sales department will like this: The Twins will host the Yankees twice this season. There's a 3-game series Friday, May 30th through Sunday, June 1st. The other series is another 3-gamer Monday, August 11th through Wednesday, August 13th (in the middle of the pennant races). The Twins also host the Red Sox for a 4-game, weekend series Friday, May 9th through Monday, May 12th (No, it's not Memorial Day.).

Unfortunately, the Twins won't have any home, weekend series against the White Sox or Angels. We do get to see Cleveland and Detroit in the dome twice on weekends, though.

Ugh, I can't wait for March 31st against the Angels...

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Ya, I don't like our schedule at all...

First, the RNC is going to throw us off for a while (and I'll miss games that I thought I'd make because I'll likely be at the convention in Minneapolis then) AND every NL team that we play (save the Nats) is very good for that league.

Sucks...

by djskilbr on Oct 28, 2007 10:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

NL Central please

I keep waiting for them to play in Wrigley and St. Louis year after year. Oh well....

by TheMattWilke on Oct 29, 2007 1:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Once that was all they did

When interleague first started, it was Central vs. Central, East vs. East, West vs. West, so the Twins played in Chicago and St. Louis every other year. Now, though, I have no idea.

Does anyone know whether there's any sort of pattern or anything to the interleague matchups (besides the home-and-home rivalry series)? The NFL does rotating divisional matchups (for example, the Vikings play the AFC West and NFC East this year, and they host every AFC team in an 8-year span), but while MLB kind of does that (the Twins get 3 NL West teams next year), I don't understand stuff like playing the Nationals in consecutive years, unless they think that's some sort of mini-rivalry series because the Twins use to be there.

by BeefMaster on Oct 29, 2007 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They do rotate... sort of.

In 2006, the Twins played mostly NL Central Teams. In 2007, we played predominantly NL East teams. In 2008, it looks like mostly NL West teams.

Unfortunately, the rotation isn't perfect due to differing numbers of teams in the divisions and the rivalry match-ups. So we get stuck seeing Washington in the dome 2 seasons in a row because we're small market. Just to make the system work well in larger markets.

I really wish there were 15 teams in each league. Sure, you'd have to have at least 1 interleague series at all times, but it would make the interleague rotation so much smoother. Besides, it would be nice to have interleague spread out more, IMO.

-Flip

by Flip27 on Oct 30, 2007 3:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

10 Games

10 games against the Yankees isn't good for he ease of play, but it is good for tickett sales with 7 at home...

Baseball is great because you cant take a knee or kill the clock. You gotta put the ball over the plate and give the other guy his damn shot E Weaver abridged

by AdamOnFirst on Oct 29, 2007 11:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs