3:00 AM

The Major League Baseball regular season started today. Notice that it's almost 9:00 AM and I said "started." This is because the opening game was played at 3:00 AM PDT in Japan. I don't object to broadening the world audience, but it seems that MLB's doing this is a big digitus infamis to the fans in the US and especially those of Oakland and Boston (I won't discuss the ethics of torturing Red Sox fans or say "what Oakland fans?"). Also baseball is already very popular in Japan. Will playing a major league game there increase interest and, in the long run, revenues to MLB from Japan? I'm guessing maybe, but not much.