Boston Red Sox in Tokyo

The Red Sox played their first game of the year in Tokyo this morning. I rather enjoyed the 6AM pre game special. It was a nice pre work activity. The local Portland bars were open early and seemed full. That is either cool, funny or perhaps a bit sad. Baseball is huge in Japan, Korea and perhaps someday China. The World Series is coming closer to living up to it's name every year. I like the touches Japan has made to baseball. Oddly it is almost exactly the same game as it is here in the States. Technically Japan has had baseball almost as long as we have. I believe they started playing in the 1870's back when they were hiring U.S. engineers and military to modernize Japan.

Anyways the game was good. Street blew a save, Manny was being Manny with his 4 RBI's and the Sox looked like they did last year. Veritek is showing some age however.