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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.

Comments (6)

[ mouse ] says:
on January 30, 2008 2:10 PM

"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.

[ kate ] says:
on January 30, 2008 2:46 PM

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..

[ Liza ] says:
on January 30, 2008 3:23 PM

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.

[ jules ] says:
on January 30, 2008 5:00 PM

I'll be in Oakland at least once to cheer our guys on, but yes, what a schedule! The travel will not be fun.

[ Jaymers ] says:
on January 31, 2008 1:13 PM

ahhhhhhhh!

[ Casey ] says:
on January 31, 2008 5:10 PM

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.

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