Lost in the opening weekend of NFL football and a wave of news both in the NFL and in college football was the release of the Major League Baseball schedule for the 2015 season on Monday.
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There are relevant nuggets to each team around the league, but in the big picture there is one especially noteworthy item: the World Series will not conclude until November of next year.
"Major League Baseball’s 2015 season is scheduled to start with a Sunday night game on April 5 and the other 28 teams will be slated to open the following day.The regular season is to end Oct. 4, which means the World Series would be scheduled to start Oct. 28 if the current postseason format is maintained. A seventh game would be Nov. 5 under that format."
Many contributions have been made in recent seasons to the narrative that baseball is dying. Those sentiments emerge for a number of reasons, with the declining television ratings of the playoffs and World Series chief among them. One imagines, then, that having baseball overlap with football even later into the fall will not help in that regard.
The other issue that will get attention is the potential for cold weather at that time of year. That will be an issue in a number of potential venues, with the World Series potentially getting pushed out even later if games have to be postponed.
Stay tuned to FanSided for all of the latest news and analysis from Major League Baseball as the season winds down, with the postseason just around the corner.