The Cubs’ schedule nightmare: 30 games in 30 days

Over the last week there has been a lot of discussion of the weather and I’ll admit I learned more about hurricanes and their trajectory than I ever thought I would from a baseball site. However, the bigger problem with the Cubs‘ schedule wasn’t a hurricane or even the chance of rain. The biggest problem is how did the Cubs wind up with a September schedule that had them scheduled to play 30 games in 30 days in the first place?

The answer is a lot more complicated than you’d think.

Scheduling Shenanigans

Full disclosure, when I originally pitched this article to Al I wanted to look at the longest stretches of games in 2018 and prove that the Cubs had it uniquely bad. Then I immediately began…