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Here's the White Sox's tentative 2008 home schedule. I stress that this is tentative, but in a season like 2007, there's nothing wrong with looking ahead to next year:

 

April 7-10: MINNESOTA

April 11-13: DETROIT

April 14-15: OAKLAND

April 22-24: NEW YORK YANKEES

April 25-28: BALTIMORE

May 6-8: MINNESOTA

May 20-22: CLEVELAND

May 23-25: LOS ANGELES ANGELS

June 3-5: KANSAS CITY

June 6-8: MINNESOTA

June 13-15: COLORADO

June 17-19: PITTSBURGH

June 27-29: CHICAGO CUBS

June 30-July 2: CLEVELAND

July 3-6: OAKLAND

July 18-20: KANSAS CITY

July 21-23: TEXAS

August 5-7: DETROIT

August 8-11: BOSTON

August 12-14: KANSAS CITY

August 18-20: SEATTLE

August 22-24: TAMPA BAY

September 5-7: LOS ANGELES ANGELS

September 8-11: TORONTO

September 12-14: DETROIT

September 26-28: CLEVELAND

 

What a terrible draw in Colorado and Pittsburgh for interleague play this has to be the worst in MLB. How many years in a row are we playing the Pirates. JR go ahead a charge your great premium seat charge for those games good luck!

 

 

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I like interleague play. I like the idea of seeing Colorado -- a team that we don't see (in the regular season!) that often. I do agree with the above exasperation over the Pirates.

 

Maybe MLB should allow a team like the White Sox to have two natural rivals. Give us one series with the Brewers every year instead of one with the Pirates. I don't think anyone would mind seeing the Angels visit just once in order to sub the Brewers. As for the Brewers, their natural rival is the Twins. I don't think they would mind one series against the Twins and one against the Sox.

 

Just a thought

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QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 27, 2007 -> 12:09 PM)
I do know they are going to Cali - San Fran is at least one of the teams. Not sure who the other NL road team is.

 

I like interleague play. Just sucks we keep getting the Pirates over and over again.

 

I wish they would have played the Brewers up in Miller Park instead of the Pirates. Closer to my neck of the woods (Rd Lake) and that park is really fun to go to.

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Goddamn, I'd love to see the Sox at Chavez Ravine.

 

It's a great place and interestingly Dodger Stadium is now one of the oldest parks in baseball. Let's see, after Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium go by the wayside at the end of 2008, which parks are older? Wrigley and Fenway, I think that's it.

 

Actually, thinking about it, Dodger Stadium predates Shea anyways. Dodger Stadium was 1962 and Shea 1964.

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QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 27, 2007 -> 10:08 AM)
IMO, no.

And FYI neither MLB or individual teams make the schedule.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1936328

So a company in Pittsburgh seems to constantly pick the Pirates to play the Sox? Interesting.

 

And I am sure MLB has some influence. Its not like they just say OK, pick a few teams to play each other. They have requests I am quite sure, as to what interleague teams play each other.

 

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QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 27, 2007 -> 09:15 AM)
So a company in Pittsburgh seems to constantly pick the Pirates to play the Sox? Interesting.

 

And I am sure MLB has some influence. Its not like they just say OK, pick a few teams to play each other. They have requests I am quite sure, as to what interleague teams play each other.

 

 

I have no idea what happens beyond the computer picks. Just wanted to clear up the misconseption that the owners make the schedule.

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Is Yankmee stadium worth a trip?

 

Yes of course, it's baseball history. It is cramped, the seats are uncomfortable, the corridors are dark and damp but if you have an appreciation for old ballparks go see it.

 

Or you could wait until new Yankee Stadium opens the following year. Either way NYC is worth a visit without question.

 

Maybe if you can't get to a game in person, take a tour of Yankee Stadium, it goes behind the scenes, you get to visit Monument Park out past CF, very interesting.

 

Also if you are near the top and are able to look west across the Hudson River at 158th Street you will see the former site of the Polo Grounds. I went with my old college roommate on an NIU alumni trip for an overniter to see the Sox/Yankees and we checked out the old Polo Grounds site, it is a bunch of high rise low to middle income housing buildings but there are a couple of placques and markers and such. Also there is an old staircase coming down from the subway station and street at the top of Coogans Bluff, it is the same staircase people used to use to walk down to the Polo Grounds ticket office and main entrance.

 

I was never much into that kind of stuff but it was kind of interesting to walk around and think that once there was a venue which hosted all sorts of prominent sporting events.

 

Also you can take the subway over to Brooklyn and see where Ebbets Field was, it too is a bunch of apartment buildings and there is one small sign on one of the buildings which says it is where the ballpark was. And then you turn around and get back on the subway and go back to Manhattan :P

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San Fran in May? Yuk, windy, chilly and rainy probably.

Where exactly will the new Yankee stadium stand?

 

Los, the new Yankee Stadium is being built right now. The foundation is placed and the skeleton is going up, it is located directly across the street, to the north, of the current Yankee Stadium.

 

From what I read, some of the current Yankee Stadium will be saved, in the form of a park and possibly some architectural elements staying in place. That will play out over the next 12-15 months.

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QUOTE(StatManDu @ Sep 27, 2007 -> 02:26 AM)
I like interleague play. I like the idea of seeing Colorado -- a team that we don't see (in the regular season!) that often. I do agree with the above exasperation over the Pirates.

 

Maybe MLB should allow a team like the White Sox to have two natural rivals. Give us one series with the Brewers every year instead of one with the Pirates. I don't think anyone would mind seeing the Angels visit just once in order to sub the Brewers. As for the Brewers, their natural rival is the Twins. I don't think they would mind one series against the Twins and one against the Sox.

 

Just a thought

 

That's what I've always thought..interleague should be about geography. On the Sox schedule should be a rotation of (always the Cubs) St. Louis, Milwaukee, and possibil Cincy.

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QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Sep 27, 2007 -> 10:41 AM)
Is there a website that has the Yankees and the Red Sox home schedule, i'm going to Yankeee Stadium and Fenway Park next summer and the sooner I can plan ahead, the better.

im gonna try to get to yankee stad. and shea next summer too before they tear em down......fenway is a cool park, but i personally think its overrated, dont get me wrong its definitely a place baseball fans should go, but i guess i just dont get why people love it so much and think that its the be all end all of stadiums....i guess cuz its old

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