Welcome to Snyder’s Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and most will be somewhere in between. The good thing about this website is that it’s free, and you are allowed to click away. If you stay, you’ll get smarter, though. That’s a money-back guarantee. Let’s get to it.
Have you ever heard an older baseball fan lament how the schedule is shaking out and say something like “bring back that one couple” or “go back to the mom and pop schedule?”
This isn’t just a saying. The husband-and-wife duo of Henry and Holly Stephenson built the MLB schedule from 1981-2004. I can only imagine back in the pre-computer days how many different sheets of paper they had laying around trying to fit things together in a working puzzle that would be the Major League Baseball schedule for the season. My hat is off to them.
And, boy, do I want that back.
Monday night, the Dodgers and Padres played a wild thriller in Petco Park. The Dodgers prevailed, 8-7, in 10 innings to hold onto their top spot in the NL West.
This was the first time the two…
