It's Offical: the Schedulers Hate San Francisco

The Giants have opened at home in only 5 of the last 21 seasons, the forth fewest in MLB, and the fewest among teams who don't play in cold weather cities or domes. Only the Cubs, White Sox, and Red Sox have fewer home openers over that span. The A's have opened at home in 15 of the last 21 seasons.

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I heard the giants generally request to open on the road because of weather.

by capn on Apr 2, 2011 5:13 PM PDT reply actions

What weather?

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by Bhaakon on Apr 2, 2011 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions

I've heard this as well

And because they prefer to close the season at home (apparently you can either open or close at home but not both).

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by quincy0191 on Apr 2, 2011 6:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah there was a note on this in either Schulman or Baggs blogs or both recently. The Giants FO actively lobbies MLB to play fewer games at home in April because its colder and suppresses attendance.

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by Roger on Apr 2, 2011 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions

I’ve also heard this. I like to believe that they do it as a favor to me so that the home opener always fall on my birthday weekend. Thank-you Giants.

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by Merope on Apr 2, 2011 7:56 PM PDT up reply actions

this indeed

It’s not an accident, I’m sure they try to avoid rainouts taking away revenue.

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by natteringnabob on Apr 2, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

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by Kitspool on Apr 2, 2011 6:47 PM PDT reply actions

It is cold

I was at the first series last year on Tims start and it was absolutely freezing cold. There was a three hour rain delay and the winds blew like Candlestick.

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by ptizzy on Apr 2, 2011 7:57 PM PDT via mobile reply actions

Compared to other baseball towns, not really. Cincinnati, New York, St Louis, Denver, Pittsburgh, Philly, Kansas City, all colder in April. And SF only averages 1.25 inches of rain in April, while Cinci gets 3.96, New York 4.28, St Louis 3.69, etc.; excluding domes, only LA and San Diego are drier in April than the Bay Area. If the Giants are requesting to open on the road due to the weather, MLB should be telling them to shut up and host some teams with actual bad conditions to deal with in April.

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by Bhaakon on Apr 2, 2011 8:21 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, I don’t get it either. Sure, April is the most likely month for S.F. to get rain (since the percentage chance in other baseball months is somewhere around 0%), and the weather definitely isn’t colder than in Midwest or Northeastern cities. Essentially what they’re saying is that Bay Area fans are wimps about the weather (which is probably true).

by sycasey on Apr 4, 2011 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions

That game was awesome.

I will never regret sitting through that delay.

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by capnk on Apr 3, 2011 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions

Us either. Especially the whole torrential downpour thing right as the game ended. It was magic inside.

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by Merope on Apr 3, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Nah its about being cool

how can I resist a bad pun?

My 2 cents is ont eh fact the league tries to avoid both bay area teams being home at the same time. If the A’s are homes odds are the Giants are a way. That is just he way it is. With April being mostly an division play month and the NL West haveing SD & LA it is bit easy to schedule the Giatns away in April. You look at the AL West you have the Angels and whom else with better weather..the Rangers, M’s?

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by daveinexile on Apr 5, 2011 8:03 AM PDT up reply actions

Funny thing is

If they had opened the season at home, the Giants would have played with record temperatures in San Francisco on Thursday and warmer than normal Friday.

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by SFGuy on Apr 2, 2011 8:44 PM PDT reply actions

About the vs. A's...

I thought they tried to have only one or the other in town for an extended time period.

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by WalrusMan on Apr 2, 2011 8:47 PM PDT reply actions

The Giants might have requested they open on the road, but I doubt they asked for 22 of their first 31 there. That’s pretty rough.

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by rxmeister on Apr 3, 2011 4:17 AM PDT via mobile reply actions

We’ve been to Opening Day, and up until this year Opening Sunday every year for the past 4-5 years and every year there has been some sort of rain event.

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by Merope on Apr 3, 2011 6:51 AM PDT reply actions