What Kind of Idoit…

Today’s gripe session is dedicated to the folks who set up the schedule for Major League baseball. I haven’t looked at the entire season; not sure I could handle that all at one time. Sunday the Astros had a day game in Houston and then had to get on a plane for another day game with the Mets up in New York City on Monday. That would not have been so glaring had the game been a night game. The real issue comes up when there is a hole on Tuesday; no game at all, followed by a game on Wednesday. Can someone tell me the reasoning behind that? What, did they want to schedule some time on the Circle Line or a trip to the Bronx Zoo?

This may be a jump in deduction; maybe the folks who set up the freeway merges are related to the game schedulers. The freeway design folks had to have an engineering degree; tell me I’m right here. So why is it that there are four lanes of traffic moving at 60mph having to negotiate a chance at one lane in the middle of a curve? It makes almost as much sense as having the Astros catch a plane for a game that should have been a day later. I don’t think you have to have a degree in anything to schedule a ball game, not that it’s helped our engineers design freeways. Maybe they both used the “It’s five o’clock and Friday; just put it over there somewhere so we can get the heck out of here.”