Brutal interleague schedule

The Pads have the tentative schedule for 2008 up on their website.
For the interleague games, in addition to the usual Mariners, they get
the Tigers and Twins at home, and the Indians on the road.  So, it
looks like they're playing the AL Central, right?  Not exactly.  No
games against the fourth place White Sox or the last place Royals.
Instead, they get to go on the road and play the Yankees.

At least when an NFL team gets a tough schedule, we know why.  It
annoys me the way MLB just seems to pull schedules out of its ass.