I post too many times in this thread. But I just like baseball. I looked back through this years posts because I was sure that I had posted about the ridiculous season ending Tiger schedule earlier. I've been railing about the schedule all year but I guess it was to only my family and friends. Jim Leyland spoke about it yesterday.
"I think it's totally unfair for an American League team to finish in a National League city for the last three games of the season," Leyland said. "I don't mind Interleague play at the end of the season, if that's what you want to do, that's fine. But in my opinion, if you're going to have an American League team play a National League team the last three days of the season, it should be in an American League park."
If Detroit makes the playoffs, and Martinez doesn't start any of the games in Miami, he could potentially go a week without playing in a full game. There is a four-day break between the end of the regular season and the playoffs for division winners.
"I don't try to open up a can of worms, or upset any of the people who make the schedule or anything like that, but it's ridiculous, plain and simple," Leyland said.
Now, anyone that knows Leyland will know that he would never say anything bad against the MLB, so for him to say this backs up what I've been saying all year. How did the schedule makers take a possible Playoff contender and make them play the final 3 games in a NL park? It's bad enough that you have a 4 day rest after the final regular season. But add in 3 more days of your DH spot missing and now face teams that have used the DH for those 3 days. I see that 2014 schedule has the Astros playing the Mets next year in a AL park. Which I don't mind. Neither team is expected to be in contention.
I also like the looks of the 2014 schedule for all the teams I've looked at. Much better job. I like the Idea that the Yankees have to play the Red Sox the final games rather than the Astros like this year.... Really? The 2013 schedule pitted the perennial AL contending Yanks against what everyone considered the weakest team in the AL for the final 3 games....