The NFL, NHL and NBA always have a “schedule day”, a day and time where they release their entire season schedule all at once. Ditto for the AHL.

But not so in Major League Baseball. Each of the 30 teams releases their schedule at a time of their own choosing. Scroll through the team websites and you will find that a few teams have posted their entire 2008 calendars, others have posted just their home games, while still others have yet to make any announcement.

So how does this all affect us? Well basically we have identified four weekends next season which tie around Pete’s three days off work schedule. Now we are attempting to get the full list of who is home and who is not on those weekends so we can make plans. And interestingly, even if a team like, let’s say the Nationals, don’t have their schedule posted yet, sometimes we can still find out where they’re at on the dates in question just by backtracking through other team schedules that are up.

The USRT has three Major League Baseball venues in the plans for next season - of course the new ballpark, Nationals Park in DC is at the top of the list; then there are plans for farewell visits to both Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium. Oh yeah, the new IL ballpark in Lehigh Valley, Coca Cola Park deserves a mention as well, we have set a date for that visit next June.

But alas, neither the Mets, Yankees or Nationals have announced their schedules as of yet, and we have not culled enough info from other sites to put any reasonable plans together. For whatever reason, the New York teams are always among the last to announce their calendars, this we have learned from past experience.

So we wait, and check the websites every few days. Lots of fun, this road trip planning, but when it comes to MLB, a bit exasperating as well.

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