It makes sense to schedule as many division matchups early in the season because there are more opportunities to make them up later on. Actually, any opportunity to make them up without flying out to make up one game and losing an off day.
On Thursday’s game, I’ve seen a lot of folks on twitter begging the Sox to change it to Friday. To me, it would have been common sense to make the change today with 48 hours notice. It’s going to suck Thursday for the people that are there. Have fun though.