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Should MLB Start Its Season On A Sunday?

It's a legitimate question, since in 2016 the Sunday opener won't be the only game that day.

It's Sunday, so I thought this might be a good discussion topic.

Major League Baseball, for the last several years, has scheduled an exclusive Sunday-night opener to the baseball season. Last year the Cubs and Cardinals were involved, this year, thanks to a quirk of the schedule (which was released a month before the postseason), it'll be the defending league champions, the Mets and Royals, on ESPN's Sunday night opener.

But next year will also have a twist added to this Opening Day schedule -- two other games played on Sunday afternoon, April 4, both involving playoff teams from 2015.