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Opening Day
March 25, 2008The Sox beat the Athletics today 6-5. Not a lot of people probably watched the game, or were able to do so. It started at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Another reason is because the sacred day in baseball, opening day, was played overseas in Japan.
Do I have a problem with internationalizing the game? Nope, I would just like to see the start of the MLB season start and end in the states.
It was the Red Sox, not the White Sox, for crying out loud. If you want to have a game in Japan throw them the Florida Marlins. People who live in Florida don't go to watch the Marlins.
In the NFL you don't see the Cowboys or the Packers playing in Mexico City -- no, you saw the Arizona Cardinals playing the San Francisco 49ers.
Granted the now NFL champion NY Giants played the Dolphins in England, but who thought that game would have mattered, honestly, when it was played?
And neither of those games opened the season.
The Red Sox should have been able to open their year up at Fenway. They earned it.
I understand there is marketing appeal because of Dice-K, but why play the game so early in the season if they must. I guess the shock will wear off as well as the jet lag.
I wonder how much complaining would come out of a MLB club if they had to play a three-game series overseas in the middle of an already too long 162 game season.
Regardless all major league sports are becoming more and more international. It's for the good of the game when it comes down to it, but if you want to send a team to Japan to play how about another go around for the the Bad News Bears.
Posted by Clayton Hein at 10:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
