boston and oakland open series in Japan

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From Yahoo! Sports this morning:

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics are lined up to meet in a Tokyo Dome opener next season.

Major League Baseball gave the players' union a draft 2008 schedule on Monday, and the Red Sox would open the United States portion of their schedule at Oakland, according to Gene Orza, the union's chief operating officer.

Baseball officials have spent several months formulating a plan in which the Red Sox -- with Japanese stars Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima -- would start the season in Japan against an AL West opponent, then return to the United States for a series at that same AL West team.

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Re: Boston and Oakland Open Series in Japan

[ Author: Tokyo Sox | Posted: Sep 11, 2007 10:05 PM | TYS Fan ]

Yeah, they first started talking about this in mid-July (see this thread), but each time someone reports it as a "done deal," Gene Orza or one of the teams denies it.

Many news outlets are reporting it again this time around, and I for one - despite the potential wear and tear factor on the teams - sure hope it happens!

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