Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Baseball begins... March 25... in Japan?!?!

As I awoke this fine morning to greet the day, I turned on the television to see “MLB Baseball” on ESPN2. Interested, I clicked select and magical on-screen guide took me to Japan where the Boston Red Sox were playing the Oakland Athletics.

Surely this must be preseason baseball.

Oh no, it wasn’t, and please don’t call me Shirley.

Yup, our National Pastime started playing games — THAT COUNT — in Japan on March 25. I understand we live in a globalized economy, but there is no need to export Major League Baseball to Japan. For a preseason game, fine, but this is embarrassing.

At least the Japanese play baseball. Who were the geniuses that decided the NFL needs to play a regular season game in London, England?

Anyway, the baseball season has started in the Far East and it looks as if the locals were ready to welcome MLB with open arms. Those open arms were holding appropriate signs like this:

3 comments:

Z said...

Lay off the Asians, Lou

Rusty Shackleford said...

Me love baseball long time.

boom ornery said...

The sad thing is that shipping the Red Sox off to Japan sounds like a great idea, until you realize they just get talked about more. Regardless, this is the third time (I think) that MLB has played in Japan - once every four years since 2000, so it's hardly something new. And why is Matt Leinart there?