The National Football League likes to make a spectacle out of its schedule release date, teasing the moment as must-see TV for months and generating enough hype to actually squeeze some ratings out of the ordeal.

Major League Baseball, meanwhile, just dumps the thing on a random weekday while the current season is still taking place.

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It's a decision. We can say that all right.

In any event, considering that schedule release came on an aforementioned random weekday, it's possible you didn't have time to lay out the calendar and analyze everything that made an eyebrow or two rise around Boston. Fortunately, we can fix that.

In theory, having a historic franchise like the Red Sox open the season in Cincinnati, whi

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