It's like GM and Ford during the go-go SUV years, with disaster lurking around the corner. Doesn't seem like they get it from a marketing perspective. This is the face of MLB scheduling by the way.

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Cuz she doesn't actually do the work, they have a consulting firm do it. She "makes adjustments" and is basically the PR person, which is probably not the best job for a horrible shrewish example of nepotism. I was thinking more Betty Childs 10 years out from her Pi Delta Pi presidency.

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Nothing says "marquee matchup" quite like two 60-win teams

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Cubs Sox is a marquee interleague matchup regardless of what their records are.

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A LOT

This has the stink of something freshly pulled from your ass.

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I thought Chub Feeney was dead?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

They don't have to worry about marquee matchups in the airline industry, nor do they have to worry about what times busses and trains are travelling. There's nearly limitless unique factors that sports teams have to account for.

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This has the stink of something freshly pulled from your ass.

The times are pretty much set by the venue anyways. If it's a day game it starts at 1:10 for the Cell, and if it is a night game, it starts at 7:10. The buses and trains don't matter because the venue already dictates the time. It's not like the system has to put a game on at 3am.

It's quite a trivial system, even when you start to add in advanced features like distance tracking to keep road trips short and putting in extra rules like (Chicago vs. Chicago needs to be after May 25th on a weekend). A summer intern at IBM could create the whole system in less than a month. There are companies all over Chicago that have more complex scheduling mechanisms than would be needed.

In fact, MLB could just drop $129 on this! http://www.galactix.com/tsss/leaguescheduler.html

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