{"id":10928,"date":"2016-09-15T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2016-09-14T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T01:41:26","slug":"turning-the-page-to-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/turning-the-page-to-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning The Page To Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"baseballs3\"<\/a>Major League Baseball released their tentative 2017 schedule yesterday. \u00a0While the local squads have differing goals in mind as 2016 winds down, with the Cubs currently sitting pretty with a magic number of 1\u00a0and the White Sox playing out the string while trying to avoid their 4th straight losing season, it’s time to turn our attention to next summer for both teams.<\/p>\n

The White Sox open their season at what will then be known as Guaranteed Rate Field on April 3 against the Tigers, with 28 of their first 34 games coming against AL Central foes. \u00a0Given their lack of success in this arena over the past few years, it will be a tough test to start the new campaign.<\/p>\n

The interleague schedule pits the White Sox against the NL West, with trips to Arizona, Colorado, and Los Angeles and home series against the Padres, Giants, and the Dodgers. \u00a0The rivalry with their north side foes continues the last week of July, with Monday and Tuesday games at Wrigley Field before moving back to the south side for Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n

The season ends with a 7 game homestand against the Royals and Angels before heading to Cleveland for the final weekend. \u00a0Assuming the team finds itself in contention, it could be an interesting last week.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on the north side, the Cubs open the season down in St. Louis, for the first time since 1986, on April 3. \u00a0They kick off the home portion of their schedule the following week against the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

The interleague schedule pits the Cubs against the AL East, with trips to Boston, Baltimore, and Tampa Bay\u00a0and home series against the Yankees, Blue Jays, and the Rays.<\/p>\n

The Cubs end the year with a 4 game stint against the Cardinals in St. Louis before returning home for the final weekend against the Reds. \u00a0One can only assume they will be celebrating their second straight NL Central crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Major League Baseball released their tentative 2017 schedule yesterday. \u00a0While the local squads have differing goals in mind as 2016 winds down, with the Cubs currently sitting pretty with a magic number of 1\u00a0and the White Sox playing out the string while trying to avoid their 4th straight losing season, it’s time to turn our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[110,119,57,120,122,116,256,6917,115,2244,50,231,255,258,53,257,126,230,49,595,51],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-angels","tag-blue-jays","tag-cardinals","tag-cubs","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dodgers","tag-giants","tag-guaranteed-rate-field","tag-indians","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-padres","tag-rays","tag-red-sox","tag-reds","tag-rockies","tag-royals","tag-tigers","tag-white-sox","tag-wrigley-field","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10931,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/10931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}