Major League Baseball released its full schedule for 2012, and the Mets’ kind of sucks. I’ve come to be something of an apologist for Interleague Play even if I think it lasts too long every summer. It’s a good way for fans to get to watch great players we don’t often see in person, like Jose Bautista and Kevin Youkilis and… Nolan Reimold?

The Mets will host two Interleague series in 2012: One with the Yankees and one with the Orioles. With the NL East and AL East due to match up, the Mets drew the one team in that division that’s not really at all compelling. The Orioles have a bunch of young players so there’s some chance they start to turn it around by June 18, 2012, but I was really hoping to get to watch Bautista tee off in Citi Field.

Of course, the Blue Jays are one of only six big-league teams I haven’t seen in their home park, so perhaps a road trip is in order. The Mets are ticketed for Toronto the weekend of May 18-20. Are there any notable sandwiches there? The Wikipedia tells me that one of the city’s nicknames is “Hogtown,” so that sounds promising.