Weird Schedule

Is it just me, or does somebody at MLB need to get a memo saying that scheduling twelve Yankees v. Red Sox games between May 1 and June 8 is a little overkill. That's 12 of 36 - one game in three. Ridiculous. And for the Sox, 11 more in that stretch are against Baltimore and Toronto, against whom we played 9 in April. Is there still baseball west of the Alleghanies?