#Chicago cubs baseball games professional#
Being young, single and a professional baseball player opens up a lot opportunities, and many of them are not good for those who wish to partake, going back to Baker's comment.įormer Cubs player and announcer Steve Stone added (per USA Today), "You're playing 51 day games a year, you'd better know what your players do at night. Chicago is a city with a great nightlife. That brings up another disadvantage of the day schedule. It helps to have a team with guys married with families so they go home." Most of the guys are swing-shift, three-11 type people.
To get extra work on the field, you have to be here too early."Īnother former Cubs manager, Dusty Baker, parroted Piniella, saying (per USA Today), "The day games do make it harder. In an article in USA Todayby Mike Dodd in 2010, Lou Piniella referred to the various starting times and said, "What makes it a little harder are the different start times, especially in the summer. Wood referred to it as "Being a shift worker in a factory." Other days, the starting time is like normal teams, but not enough to get into a rhythm or comfort zone. You have to wake up really early for the day games. The variances never allow for a normal schedule and routine that other teams have the advantage of enjoying. with the Boston Red Sox (coming up next weekend).
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