2015 Giants schedule released

The Giants will open the 2015 season on the road against the Diamondbacks, the sixth straight year they've celebrated Opening Day in someone else's ballpark.

This is obnoxious.

Opening Day a week after the real Opening Day is still cool. The entire roster stands on the third-base line. Jets fly over. There's bunting to frame the imminent bunting. But it's not Opening Day. It's not the day that separates the winter from the spring, the cold from the sun.

On the other hand, the Giants could have gotten Clayton Kershaw at home on Opening Day, and that sounds like a total drag. The Giants home opener is against the Rockies on April 13, and I'll take the Rockies at AT&T Park a week later over that Kershaw scenario. Every danged time.

Because MLB releases this schedule in one gigantic PDF that isn't sorted by team, I had to copy/paste into Excel and manually delete all of the dumb non-Giants games. Then the Giants put it up on their website minutes later. Appreciate my sacrifice, you jackals.

The full 2015 Giants schedule (provisional):

The biggest surprise: That late-season A's series. Suddenly it's not so cute, this mini-rivalry. One or both teams should be in the playoff hunt, and that series could screw all sorts of things up for one of the teams. Then, right after, the Giants have to host the Dodgers. Brrrrr.

The AL West is the Giants' interleague partner, so there will be World Series rematches with the Angels (boooo) and Rangers (yaaaay), along with games against the Mariners and Astros. The Giants go a full two weeks before their first off day on April 20, which would be the perfect setup for a Tim Lincecum joke that I'm not making right now.

According to my calculations, the Giants will play the Padres a lot next season.

The ring ceremony will be Saturday, April 18 against the Diamondbacks.

There you have it, the 2015 Giants schedule (provisional). That stupid A's series is freaking me out. It should freak you out, too.