30 teams, 162 games — I can’t even image the headaches that go into scheduling in Major League Baseball. The Freep has noted a couple of anomalies in recent days: the current crop of two-game series and the “squeezing” of division rivalries that has the Cubs and Cardinals finishing their season series about the same time the Tigers and White Sox are starting theirs.

Baseball has traditionally divided its weeks with three- and four-game series, I suppose to cut down on travel. But this week seems filled with two-game turnarounds. Maybe the flights are shorter, I don’t know.

As for those divisional rivalries that are supposed to be heightened withthe unbalanced schedule (teams play the others in their own division more than other teams in their league with a selection of games against teams in the other league), it would seem that not having late-season meetings, especially between longtime, probably contending rivals like the Redbirds and Cubbies, would kind of dull some of that excitement.

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