2007 Schedule Thread - Officially Released! (Update 9/28)

[Guest]

I have a hard time believing the cubs are scheduled for a two game road trip - could be but I don't think I've ever seen that before.

[Guest]

Note: The NL Central supposedly will be playing the AL West in interleague play this year. On an A's blog, I found out that the A's will NOT be one of the teams that the Cubs play. However, according to the following link from a Pittsburgh paper, we will be playing the AL Central again: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06223/712802-63.stm

 

ARG. Why couldn't the Cubs play the A's this year (in Oakland obviously). Those would be guaranteed easy tickets to get.

 

no worries soccer - we'll take the train to Jack London and the ferry across to pacbell with a couple cases of beer . . .

[Drew Doughty]

I have a hard time believing the cubs are scheduled for a two game road trip - could be but I don't think I've ever seen that before.

 

didn't we open up this year with a 2 game trip to Cincinnati?

[otis89]

I have a hard time believing the cubs are scheduled for a two game road trip - could be but I don't think I've ever seen that before.

 

didn't we open up this year with a 2 game trip to Cincinnati?

 

Yep. Opening day @ Cincy, then an off day, then another game @ Cincy, then another off day, then the home opener.

[Guest]

I have a hard time believing the cubs are scheduled for a two game road trip - could be but I don't think I've ever seen that before.

 

didn't we open up this year with a 2 game trip to Cincinnati?

 

Yep. Opening day @ Cincy, then an off day, then another game @ Cincy, then another off day, then the home opener.

 

well, I can't remember that long ago! A little different situation though since its not surrounded by home games.

[kaseyi]

Actually the Atlanta one makes sense. If you run through the possible series for the entire season, you'll notice that we get 9 games for Atlanta and there is NO room for a fifth interleague series. We're only getting Seattle, Texas and the two White Sox for 12 games. Usually we play 15, but this year (as we did a few years ago) it's 12. The extra three are taken by the Braves this season.

 

http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/schedule/tentative.jsp?c_id=cle&year=2007#20060923

 

Cleveland released theirs. We're not playing them. Yeah you can pencil in San Francisco for the week before the Arizona series because we know it can't be Colorado. We know when we're going there and it's flanked by two known series. I've actually 'penciled" in the entire season for the sake of being very very bored at 2 AM in the morning and being a bit of an insomniac.

 

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f189/kctigers23/cubsschedule2.jpg

 

The white non-italicized games are locks with locations unknown. The italicized are guesswork, and they're educated - I think.

 

It gives us 34 games against the East. 81 games against the central, 35 against the west and 12 interleague. I actually want to revise something. One of the four game sets with the Pirates is probably a four game set with the Marlins (September) or Nationals (July). But oh well.

 

Well..the Giants released their schedule, and you got them wrong for at least 1 series (which would also mean that the SD series you have penciled in for 7/16-18 is also wrong).

http://giants.mlb.com/sf/downloads/sf_sched_07.pdf

 

July 16, 17, 18, 19 @ Wrigley

August 21,22,23 At SF

 

 

Kasey

[Mephistopheles]

ooh, the schedule also made a couple other choices easier. The Giants are playing the Mets the two weekdays I had the Mets playing the Cubs. So those were wrong. Now May 8-10 is going to be a Pirates series. All other teams are taken. Don't know where it is yet though.

 

I moved the Mets to the August 3-5 slot and gave the Marlins the June 26-28 slot. I couldn't move the Mets or Padres to the slot vacated by the Giants because both teams' schedules are already known. The Mets were unknown, so that makes it likely.

 

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f189/kctigers23/cubsschedule3.jpg

[kaseyi]

a couple of corrections that I have found. Pittsburgh is playing Milwaukee on May 3rd. That series probably will start on April 30th and run to may 2nd.

 

July 5th Pittsburgh is once again playing Milwaukee. THat means the 5th is either an off day or the Nats series goes from the 3rd to the 5th.

 

http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/schedule/tentative.jsp?c_id=mil&year=2007

 

Also, since the Cubs are playing the Rangers on the road, the Seattle games should be home games.

 

 

Kasey

[Mephistopheles]

Yeah the offdays are in question. Both of those series could be moved up a day. I didn't run through the exact days, Just broke the series down to mid week and weekend sets.

[Laura]

Excellent work!

[Mephistopheles]

The Marlins and Twins schedules have been released. We don't play the Twins as expected. Here's the Marlins' schedule.

 

at Wrigley: May 28-30

in Florida: Sep 24-26

 

By knowing their schedule.

 

April 31-May 2 are against the Pirates

June 26-28 are home games against Colorado

August 3-5 are against the Mets

September 21-23 are against the Pirates

 

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f189/kctigers23/vanished4.jpg

[Chris]

From the Cubs:

 

The Chicago Cubs today announced their tentative 2007 season schedule, which begins with Opening Day on Monday, April 2 at Cincinnati.

 

After a six-game road trip against Cincinnati (April 2-5) and Milwaukee (April 6-8), the Cubs will begin an eight-game homestand with the club’s home opener against the Houston Astros on Monday, April 9. The season-opening homestand will feature three-game sets with the Astros (April 9-11) and Reds (April 13-15) before a two-game series with the Padres (April 16-17).

 

The 2007 schedule features four Interleague series, beginning with a three-game set vs. the White Sox from May 18-20. The Cubs will host the Seattle Mariners’ first-ever appearance at Wrigley Field on June 12-14 before Chicago closes out the Interleague portion of their schedule with three-game series at the Texas Rangers (June 19-21) and the White Sox

(June 22-24).

 

Chicago is slated to host three holiday games, beginning with a Memorial Day contest against the Florida Marlins on Monday, May 28. On Sunday, June 17, the Cubs will host the Padres on Father’s Day, and on Monday, September 3, the Cubs will host the Los Angeles Dodgers for a Labor Day showdown.

 

The Cubs are tentatively scheduled to have two, season-high 10-game homestands, both coming after the All-Star break. The first 10-game stretch will pit the Cubs against Houston, San Francisco and Arizona (July 13-22) while the second 10-game homestand will feature Milwaukee, Houston and Los Angeles (August 28-September 6).

 

Chicago’s longest road trip of the season will come at the tail end of the 2007 schedule when the Cubs play nine-straight road contests against National Central Division rivals Pittsburgh, Houston and St. Louis from September 7-16.

 

The home portion of the 2007 schedule is tentatively scheduled to finish with a six-game homestand against Cincinnati and Pittsburgh (September 17-23) before Chicago finishes the campaign on the road against Florida and Cincinnati, September 25-30.

[Mephistopheles]

15 of our last 21 games are on the road. Meh.

[Laura]

I think teams that open on the road should close at home (and vice versa).

[kaseyi]

Here is the link to the schedule on the Cubs site

 

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/chc/downloads/2007_tentative_sched.pdf

[CaliforniaRaisin]

http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/schedule/tentative.jsp?c_id=ana&year=2007#20060923

 

We're not playing the Angels.

 

Not cool. Would like to see a Cubs game outside of May.

[soccer10k]

With my dad's birthday being August 21st that leaves me two days to attempt to see the Cubs next year when the come to San Francisco.

[Laura]

Since the tentative schedule has been released by the Cubs, I'm going to unsticky this.

 

Thanks for the research!