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Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2
Sorry if I'm missing the point, but it is an exhibition game. It doesn't count. It allows the team to play a few more ST games after the return from Japan to stay sharp. Also, they're playing 3 with the Dodgers, and just one is at the Coliseum.
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I think that's the point here, going to Japan to start the season IS a disadvantage (at the risk of starting that whole argument again), so the traveling teams get to call a lot of the shots. If I'm the Red Sox, I want some exhibition games back here before I start up the regular season.
And it's good for MLB, in that they'll be able to encourage teams to take these crazy trips in the future. If the Sox started the regular season right away, and went 0-3, it'd be blamed on the Japan trip, whether that was the reason or not. That would make teams more reluctant to go in the future.