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Opening Day: Stupid Question  
User currently offlineseb146 From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9800 posts, RR: 17
Posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 1342 times:

What dictates where opening day games are played in any given league? I live in the Bay Area and the Giants were out of town on the first day of baseball. My partners mom loves the Red Sox. They were in Fenway for the first day of the season.


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User currently offlineWhappeh From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 1560 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 1330 times:

The schedule is generally randomly generated. 2 years ago the Red Sox were in Japan, which is about as far away from home as you can get.


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User currently offlineEMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9286 posts, RR: 13
Reply 2, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 1299 times:

Quoting Whappeh (Reply 1):
The schedule is generally randomly generated

I think the MLB Offices also like to have an exciting match-up on opening day... like this years Red Sox-Yankees on Sunday Night Baseball. As far as the rest of the teams, it's just a random draw.......but cities with more then one team would never have both at home and opening the same day. NYC, SFO, LAX


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User currently offlineAirframeAS From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 14150 posts, RR: 26
Reply 3, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 1294 times:

Most Opening Days, if not all of them, the leagues generally have the teams playing their division rivals during Opening Week/Day.


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User currently offlineBMI727 From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 14315 posts, RR: 26
Reply 4, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 15 hours ago) and read 1248 times:

Quoting EMBQA (Reply 2):
like this years Red Sox-Yankees on Sunday Night Baseball.

Well, what do you expect from the East Coast Sports Network?

Quoting AirframeAS (Reply 3):
if not all of them

Not all of them, the Cubs started in Atlanta.


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User currently offlineAirframeAS From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 14150 posts, RR: 26
Reply 5, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 14 hours ago) and read 1217 times:

Quoting BMI727 (Reply 4):
Not all of them, the Cubs started in Atlanta.

Correct, that is why I said......

Quoting AirframeAS (Reply 3):
Most Opening Days, if not all of them..............



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User currently offlinebhill From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 841 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 14 hours ago) and read 1207 times:

Simple, money..and how the networks have scheduled them to get the most ad revenue for the given time slot....it's not "randomly generated". It's one of the reasons why most games are played during the evening hours during the workweek.


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User currently offlineEMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9286 posts, RR: 13
Reply 7, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 12 hours ago) and read 1176 times:

Quoting BMI727 (Reply 4):
Well, what do you expect from the East Coast Sports Network?

MLB set the schedule.... not ESPN


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User currently offlineBMI727 From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 14315 posts, RR: 26
Reply 8, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 1113 times:

Quoting EMBQA (Reply 7):
MLB set the schedule.... not ESPN

And if MLB decided to have the Indians and Royals as their Sunday night opener ESPN would have no problem with that right? It is all about money, and MLB and ESPN make sure to scratch each others' backs.


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