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Do the teams make more combined when they play each other or when they each play other teams?

 

the Cubs won't make any more, but the White Sox probably make more by having people actually show up

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Ugh....the Cubs play the White Sox as many times this year as 6 NL teams (Phillies, Mets, Marlins, Padres, Dodgers, Rockies)
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Do the teams make more combined when they play each other or when they each play other teams?

 

the Cubs won't make any more, but the White Sox probably make more by having people actually show up

This year? I bet the Cubs make more than they would against a random team. Certainly more valuable to the WS, though

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Jayson Stark has an inside look at how the interleague schedule is supposed to play out. He says that apparently the plan is likely to be 4 "rivalry" games played during 1 week, 2 games at one stadium follow by 2 at the other one. Not bad, but I'd rather just have the 3 games.

 

Other info:

 

• 20 interleague games per team.

• No more than one interleague series per day in April and over the last five weeks.

• No more than one road interleague series per team in the final five weeks.

• Division-by-division matchups rotate annually.

• Every team in a division will play the same five teams in a corresponding division in the other league, plus four "rivalry" games.

• Only four "rivalry" games per team, likely played home-and-home and back-to-back in this format: Monday-Tuesday in one park, Wednesday-Thursday in the other.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/rumblings120518/mlb-2013-interleague-schedule-huge-step-right-direction

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He says that apparently the plan is likely to be 4 "rivalry" games played during 1 week, 2 games at one stadium follow by 2 at the other one. Not bad, but I'd rather just have the 3 games.

 

I think 2 and 2 for those makes a good deal of sense. They are all very close in proximity.

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He says that apparently the plan is likely to be 4 "rivalry" games played during 1 week, 2 games at one stadium follow by 2 at the other one. Not bad, but I'd rather just have the 3 games.

 

I think 2 and 2 for those makes a good deal of sense. They are all very close in proximity.

 

Well the problem that he points out is that there are 10 teams that don't have natural rivalries, so we're bound to get Padres-Mariners or something.

 

Plus HOW ARE THEY GOING TO DECIDE WHO WINS THE BP CUP??

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Jayson Stark has an inside look at how the interleague schedule is supposed to play out. He says that apparently the plan is likely to be 4 "rivalry" games played during 1 week, 2 games at one stadium follow by 2 at the other one. Not bad, but I'd rather just have the 3 games.

 

Other info:

 

• 20 interleague games per team.

• No more than one interleague series per day in April and over the last five weeks.

• No more than one road interleague series per team in the final five weeks.

• Division-by-division matchups rotate annually.

• Every team in a division will play the same five teams in a corresponding division in the other league, plus four "rivalry" games.

• Only four "rivalry" games per team, likely played home-and-home and back-to-back in this format: Monday-Tuesday in one park, Wednesday-Thursday in the other.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/rumblings120518/mlb-2013-interleague-schedule-huge-step-right-direction

 

good enough.

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wait, so teams like the mariners are still getting rivalry games with the padres?

 

That's what stark indicated...they are probably going to do a rivalry week where everyone matches up with their natural rivals and do the 2 and 2 thing. Obviously there are some teams that lack natural rivals so they will be screwed. Not sure if it will actually be Mariners and Padres since they are so far apart, but I can't think of any other team except maybe Colorado who they could play that's closer (and I'm pretty sure Denver is still just as far away as SD)

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wait, so teams like the mariners are still getting rivalry games with the padres?

 

That's what stark indicated...they are probably going to do a rivalry week where everyone matches up with their natural rivals and do the 2 and 2 thing. Obviously there are some teams that lack natural rivals so they will be screwed. Not sure if it will actually be Mariners and Padres since they are so far apart, but I can't think of any other team except maybe Colorado who they could play that's closer (and I'm pretty sure Denver is still just as far away as SD)

 

You can't really do the rivalry week thing because you have to spread everybody's IL games over the entire season.

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wait, so teams like the mariners are still getting rivalry games with the padres?

 

That's what stark indicated...they are probably going to do a rivalry week where everyone matches up with their natural rivals and do the 2 and 2 thing. Obviously there are some teams that lack natural rivals so they will be screwed. Not sure if it will actually be Mariners and Padres since they are so far apart, but I can't think of any other team except maybe Colorado who they could play that's closer (and I'm pretty sure Denver is still just as far away as SD)

 

You can't really do the rivalry week thing because you have to spread everybody's IL games over the entire season.

 

In the Stark article linked above he says that they do actually plan on doing that. But only for about a week instead of 2-3 weeks. It seemed a little fishy when I read it but apparently they have a way to pull it off.

 

There is roughly 30 weeks in a MLB season and lets say 2 series in a week. So if only 2 teams played each other at once for a 3 game series, that accounts for 12 games for each team right? The plan is to play 20 so there will be an opportunity for everyone to play interleague games at the same time.

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Natural Rivalries:

 

Mets - Yankees

Marlins - Rays

Nationals - Orioles

Cubs - White Sox

Dodgers - Angels

Astros - Rangers (but they'll both be AL now)

Brewers - Twins

Giants - A's

Cardinals - Royals

Reds - Indians

 

Teams without a pair:

 

Braves

Diamondbacks

Phillies

Pirates

Rockies

Padres

Blue Jays

Tigers

Red Sox

Mariners

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Natural Rivalries:

 

Mets - Yankees

Marlins - Rays

Nationals - Orioles

Cubs - White Sox

Dodgers - Angels

Astros - Rangers (but they'll both be AL now)

Brewers - Twins

Giants - A's

Cardinals - Royals

Reds - Indians

 

Teams without a pair:

 

Braves

Padres

Mariners

Tigers

 

I'll guess...

 

Red Sox - Phillies

Rangers - Rockies

Astros - Diamondbacks

Blue Jays - Pirates

 

And then by process of default you are stuck with Braves - Tigers and Mariners - Padres. None of those matchups make much sense.

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