This Is Gonna Be So Easy
ESPN’s Jayson Stark has an interesting take on the Sox kicking off their 2008 season:
Anybody taken a good look at the Red Sox’s early schedule? We’ll sum it up for you. They open with a late-March visit to conveniently located Tokyo. Then it’s back to L.A. for three more jet-lagged exhibition games. Followed by a leisurely Oakland-Toronto road trip. Followed by a homestand against the Tigers and Yankees. Followed by a pair of two-game road series in Cleveland and New York. Followed by a homestand that includes a visit by another AL powerhouse, the Angels. So that’s 16 games against arguably the five best teams in the league by April 24. The Red Sox were 12-7, and four games up on the Yankees already, by last April 24. Think that will happen again?
On one hand, it will be nice to have a lot of those difficult matchups out of the way from the get-go. On the other hand… HOLY CRAP.
“Holy Crap!” was my exact reaction when I saw the April schedule too. It’d be wholly unsurprising if the Sox are below .500 that month.
The good news is that May looks considerably easier, though it does include a West Coast swing and more games with Detroit.
they end the season w/ a three game series at fenway with the yankees too. didn’t know about the beginning of the season either….nice idea to go to japan…lets hope it all works out..
Whoa… think that could be a LITTLE more challenging? (Yes. But anyway. Not realistically.)
Ah, well. It’ll be fun to watch big games again, though.
I’ll be in Oakland at least once to cheer our guys on, but yes, what a schedule! The travel will not be fun.
ahhhhhhhh!
You know the scene in Liar Liar where Jim Carrey becomes incapable of uttering anything coherent, and he just starts blurting out a bunch of random noises. That’s what I did when I saw that schedule.