Pursuit games schedule

The excitement of seeing all that green grass and that field that was always a beautiful sight to these eyes. Had they opened the gates four hours before the game and not, I believe, 90 minutes before first pitch, I would have been there then. The sooner, the better. The sooner I could get into Memorial Stadium, which felt like home to me, the better. The anticipation for the chase in batting practice was just as strong as that for the game.

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Steve Melewski. In pursuit of a baseball, the real fun is in the chase. By: Steve Melewski. View Comments. Yep, only 81 behind and my days in the stands hoping to catch a homer are pretty much over. Not that is still bothers me or anything. When do the NFL playoffs begin? Sunday, Jan. Monday, Jan. Divisional Round Saturday, Jan. TBA, p. ET TBA vs. ET Sunday, Jan. One could argue that is ultimately a bad thing for the Lakers.

They'd probably prefer to know where their weaknesses lie early on as well as just how severe those weaknesses might be. Beating up on the worst teams in the NBA might not tell them much. It might even give them a false sense of security.

Necessity is the mother of invention. The Lakers won't be able to solve their problems if they don't believe they have any.

An absolutely brutal stretch in late January and early February could prove to be a blessing in that sense. At least the Lakers will have seen themselves against elite competition before the trade deadline. By that point, the Lakers will have had plenty of time for lineup tinkering and will have a sense of who's going to hold significant playoff roles and who won't. The end of the regular season is going to be a nice test drive for them from that perspective. If top seeds are still up for grabs at that point, those final regular-season tests will carry postseason intensity.

NBA scheduling is never as simple as it looks in the offseason. Some of those early opponents will be better than expected. Some of the later ones will be worse. Injuries will impact both sides of the equation, and even an extremely favorable schedule is unlikely to net a team more than a few extra wins over the course of an entire season.

The Lakers are ultimately going to be as good as they were going to be regardless of who is in front of them. Teams with their talent control their own destiny.

But that doesn't make their schedule any less fascinating. It's almost impossible to build such a gap between the first half of a team's schedule and the second in a high-sample game season. If it wasn't by design on the league's part, it is one of the stranger scheduling quirks in recent league history. Please check the opt-in box to acknowledge that you would like to subscribe.

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