Originally posted by MaryCas: Ya know, just when I was going to see what DHs are on tap for the weekend, they sneak them in on Thursday
Ya know, MC, this ain't the 60's anymore.
I can still hear the voice of Mel Allen (or maybe it was Rizzuto or Red Barber) saying
"Then the Detroit Tigers come to town...Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and a doubleheader on Sunday."
Thursday is usally a getaway day, so there is already a day game scheduled for which the have sold tickets. Makes it real easy to add a split twinbill night game to the schedule, rather than schedule a brand new day game, for which no tickets have been sold, on a day when a night game has been already scheduled.
Weekends, I guess they figure they'll draw a decent crowd anyway, and with a disproportionate number of day games scheduled on the weekends, DHs on Friday and Saturday are impractical, since the teams prefer not to play a day game after a night game.
Including today, of the 16 doubleheaders so far this season, seven have been played on a Thursday.
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Originally posted by Don Sicilia: I figured that Plaw... You usually don't make picks without giving it a lot of thought.
