The bizarre 2009 schedule

by Kitspool on Apr 17, 2009 9:41 AM PDT Comment 29 comments

(This might not be fanpost worthy but I couldn't quite shoehorn it into a fanshot.)

Has anyone taken a close look at the 2009 schedule for the Giants? I hadn't done so until last night, while seeking a distraction from the game. Not that the Giants have done themselves many favors with their poor play over the first week and a half, but the MLB schedulers haven't done them many favors either. Obviously it's hard to create a perfectly balanced schedule across a 162-game season for all 30 teams, but still:

Including the series just completed, they're playing the Dodgers nine times in the next four weeks, and then not at all for three months.
They play the Rockies 10 times over a 26-day period.
In May, they play the Rockies at home and then go to Denver three days later.
Their May road trip (the first time they leave the Pacific time zone) features two games in Chicago, then two games in Colorado, then three games in LA, with no day off in between.
Here's where it gets tough for them. Most years there's one long road trip (10-14 games). This year there are FOUR. Amazingly, they have three 10-game road trips in a two month period (June-July) and then they have an 11-game road trip in August.
There's a random, WTF 3-game road trip to Houston in August.

I'm sure other teams have it tough, too, but what's scary is that April is, at least on paper, the easiest part of their schedule, what with the lack of long plane flights and the games against the supposed-to-be-the-weakest-division NL West. And they're already 2-7.

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It didn't seem to me that the sked was much different than previous years, but you might be right.

It’s a tough job, period. I think I remember hearing that the Mariners have to fly more miles per year than any other team, which makes sense because they are more miles from the nearest MLB team than any other MLB team. That would be unfun.

Forsan et heac olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.

by Mayor of 311 on Apr 17, 2009 9:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I know that two people used to do it by themselves...think the Times did a story on them

But I think computers do in entirely now. Which would account for the semi-freaky stuff that is now popping up.

2-4 - Losers of 6 in a row!

Adopted Giant: Daryl "Fat But Awesome" Maday - Scoreless 4 innings for first start in Norwich. Nice.

by rhys on Apr 17, 2009 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, even if computers generate the schedule’s now, there still has to be people to look over the schedule to find problems and whatnot.

by deuce deuce on Apr 17, 2009 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

xanthan?

by scout6 on Apr 17, 2009 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Katy Feeney used to do it. And she has long family ties to the Giants... yet we'd still get screwed regularly.

Forsan et heac olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.

by Mayor of 311 on Apr 17, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Seems like there's screwy stuff like that every year.

Last year they opened at LA and then didn’t see the Dodgers again until July 4, also about 3 months. And they had an April road trip with 3 in St Louis, 2 in AZ and 2 in SD, also without any off-days.

I agree with the mayor, it’s a tough job. It’s probably virtually impossible to put together a full schedule without a whole bunch of these quirks.

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by EliminateMe on Apr 17, 2009 10:25 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I know I’m going to get awfully sick of the Rockies.

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by Natto on Apr 17, 2009 10:26 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I already am.

by Dan from NM on Apr 17, 2009 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

other than being division rivials, what’s not to like about the lovable rockies?

"You ask for game winning hits, I give you Eugenio Velez"

by The Gene Hackman on Apr 17, 2009 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not winning any games against the Braves in ‘93
Getting swept in the last series of ’04, so the Giants couldn’t get the Wild Card
Also all that purple.

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by Natto on Apr 17, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don’t forget this one:

I still believe in Bowkermania.

by rightcenterfielder on Apr 17, 2009 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sigh.

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by Natto on Apr 17, 2009 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I just hit the wall. May have broken my hand…F’in Nefi.

by tyrannoman on Apr 17, 2009 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Only two games at Wrigley this year? FAIL

by Norm Median on Apr 17, 2009 10:32 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Kruk and Kuip were talking about that last night. They suggested we cancel that two game trip to Colorado and just make it a four game series with the Cubs.

Baggarly’s also displeased with the fact that there’s only two games in the Windy City.

by deuce deuce on Apr 17, 2009 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Another reason to hate interleague play

having extra division games means not playing the non-West teams in the league as much.

Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."

by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2009 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

2 games at Chicago and 4 vs. the Cubs at home.

by SFGuy on Apr 17, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

and for the 3rd time in 4 years, the Giants get to make two trips to Milwaukee.

I still believe in Bowkermania.

by rightcenterfielder on Apr 17, 2009 10:35 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

WHYY????!!!

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by Natto on Apr 17, 2009 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It’s almost like Chicago.

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by EliminateMe on Apr 17, 2009 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

feeding Bud’s secret obsession

I still believe in Bowkermania.

by rightcenterfielder on Apr 17, 2009 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Huh. And I always thought he was secretly obsessed with wearing a Martin Landau meat suit.

Stupid is as Ruben Rivera does...

by bkrhater on Apr 17, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you’ll look closely at their schedule you’ll see that the Brewers have 135 home games in 2009.

"Are we bad? No. But right now, we are." Boulderskull, 4.16.09

by Kitspool on Apr 17, 2009 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What is this crazy obsession with us and the Brewers?? And I remember Opening Day at home a few years ago was against the Brewers also, like this year.

by sfgiantsgirl on Apr 17, 2009 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bud just wants to give his team a chance to win openning day.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Apr 17, 2009 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

eight games against the Mets

why?

Proud new dad of Edgardo errr Edgar Renteria!!!

by rxmeister on Apr 18, 2009 8:09 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I actually think the schedule is a little kinder this year. I know people like to see games at Wrigley, but the Cubs are tough and it makes it easier to only have two games there. Also, I’ve always hated the six games against the A’s because they’ve always been so good, and now they’re more beatable than they’ve been in the past. When the interleague series first started, I used to complain because we would get Hudson, Mulder, and Zito (when he was good) twice a year, while other NL west teams got them once or not at all. After them it was Haren, Harden, Blanton etc. I used to check the matchups two weeks in advance because I knew the Giants couldn’t hit those guys. With the pitching staff they have now, it should be alot easier.

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by rxmeister on Apr 18, 2009 8:14 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I hate when the Giants go to Wrigley

Those games always seem to end up untelevised.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Apr 18, 2009 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

But

It’s been years since a game from Chicago hasn’t been televised. The only games that are not televised now (and the past several years) are the Saturday afternoon games.

by SFGuy on Apr 18, 2009 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs