After today's game against Cleveland we play 4 games against Toronto to close out our home stand. Then we go on a road trip to play 3 against Baltimore and 3 more against the Jays again. Then we come back home to wrap it up with 3 more against the O's.

 

Why must they schedule the same opponents back to back for two weeks straight? It gets really dull watching the Sox face these teams over and over with very little break. Can't they find a way to spread it out so we play them once early in the year and once later in the year to keep the matchups fresh?

 

It can also make it very unfair if someone is injured or if a team is just not playing well at the time and could skew the team's records.

 

This is just one example this year as it happens a few other times as well and really annoys me. I've noticed it in the past and I think it has become worse since MLB decided to go with an unbalanced schedule.

i agree. they went from one extreme to the other. there is no reason why we have to play 18? games against each team in our division. it should be 12 or 14 at the most in my opinion. variety is the spice of life!

A lot of people complain about the unbalanced schedule and when you think about fans having the opportunity to see players from the Yanks, etc, and we only have an April series the entire year it does raise the ire. I guess the idea that you play more within your division becasue you are competing against those teams for the playoff spot makes sense, but 6 games against the yanks and 18 versus the Twinks is far to out of whack.