It is Monday, January 16, 2017, and the New York Red Bulls preseason schedule still makes no sense.
To be fair to RBNY, that is one man's opinion - and not the opinion of someone who had any input into the Red Bulls' preseason plans. The Red Bulls surely do have preseason plans: Jesse Marsch made mention of them at the MLS SuperDraft. (Around the 2:40 mark below)
And the Red Bulls surely do have reasons for those plans. But there is no published preseason schedule from RBNY just yet, and one cannot reasonably expect the club to explain its reasoning for a plan not yet made public.