Oakland A’s vs the Boston Red Sox in Japan
Well the MLB season will officially start off on Tuesday morning (American time) in Japan as the Boston Red Sox take on the Oakland Athletics. Why Japan? MLB is trying to expand baseball beyond America, just like the NFL is playing one regular season game every year in Europe.
If you want to watch the Red Sox take on the Athletics Tuesday, then you will have to be up at 6 or 7 AM central time to see it. The game will actually be taking place at night in Japan but because of the time difference, it will be morning here as the two cities try to start off their season off with a win.
Boston hopes to use the momentum from their World Series sweep against the Colorado Rockies last October. The Oakland A’s hope to ruin their season opener.
To be honest, Boston is filled with fake fans because back about six years ago when the Red Sox wasn’t winning much, they couldn’t get enough people to come to the games in which their stadium holds just over 30,000 people. Now look at them now. They are arrogant and cocky because they have won two championships in the past four years. Most people would agree that Boston does a good job at traveling and Oakland does not. It will feel like Boston is playing a home game in their home stadium.
Being a true fan isn’t easy because it’s always easy to desert a team when they are playing embarrassing ball but you’ll feel much better if you tough it out through the thick and the thin.
Oakland is expected to be a strong contender in their division because of their pitching. Even though the game in Japan is expected to be primarily Red Sox Nation fans, Oakland will have at least a few hundred fans (maybe a few thousand) but that’s it. You will have to look extremely hard to see the Oakland Athletics merchandise or the Oakland A’s merchandise that is in Japan.
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