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"Betting on your favorite Major League Baseball team? You might want to reconsider if it has to cross three time zones to play. A new study shows that MLB teams that travel such distances to play a game could have up to a 60 percent chance of losing."

I found this intriguing because since the beginning of May, the Mets have played:

3 games in the Mountain time zone
3 games in the Pacific time zone
14 games in the Eastern time zone
3 games in the Mountain time zone
7 games in the Eastern time zone
7 games in the Pacific time zone
6 games in the Eastern time zone
3 games in the Pacific time zone (now)
3 games in the Mountain time zone
and then back to the Eastern time zone, where they'll stay for a while. They've also made four shifts of two or three time zones without an off day and will make a fifth this coming Sunday night.

I don't know whether this is abnormal or whether it's a frequent occurrence since the MLB switched from a human-generated schedule to a computer-generated one. To me, though, it seems like frequent cross-country trips (especially combined with the long stretch without an off day between 5/20 and 6/8) could be a factor in the Mets' inability to find any kind of a rhythm or get any momentum built up in recent weeks.

about 1 year ago Sbnlogonew_tiny JoshNY 2 comments 0 recs  | 

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not just a while

After the COL series at the end of June, they only play 10 games out of Eastern, all in Central. 4 at StL, 3 at HOU, and 3 at MIL.

by mmxii on Jun 18, 2008 4:53 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Ah, nice

I only looked at the schedule up to the end of next month.

Nice to get this out of the way early, I guess, would be the flip side of my point.

by JoshNY on Jun 19, 2008 12:37 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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