What a fucking joke. I thought the deadspin article I clicked on was a joke.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yeah, WTF is happening?

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I don’t follow MLB closely. Is Selig and now Manfred as a combo as bad as Bettman? Opening Day used to be everything. They fuck this up more every year.

Can’t wait til 2026 when two random teams play in Australia in February for no reason and everyone else starts a month later.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Something is up. MLB is gonna trot out the fucking As and Ms to open the season? Push the opener back to May 1 and open with Yankees Red Sox. Srsly.

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It’d be funny if the NFL copied this. Let the Jags and Titans go play in Beijing in early August while everyone else is in early preaseason mode and make it count.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yea a fucking 4:30am game isn't going to cut it!!!

Dumbest shit ever

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

They've been doing this for years. Yankees and Mariners opened in Tokyo in 2004.

Silly but no big deal.

Opening Day is still Opening Day.

This is an okay appetizer.

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“They did it before so it’s fine now” sound logic peeps. Your waters must run deep.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Having it so far before the rest of the games starting is stupid.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

It would've significantly shortened the blackface thread.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I guess I don't think about it too much.

Still waters, man.

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Fucking this all up so you can use Ichiro as a prop cuz he’s older than WWN but willing to go out there for a PA. Shameful.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

True. But it's still dumb on MLB's part

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

It reminds one of a couple of early October days in 1980.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I enjoyed watching this morning, and I will enjoy watching tomorrow.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

I think it's cool to host major league baseball in Tokyo. I remember them doing this in 2008 I think? Red Sox were involved? What I don't understand is (after looking at the schedule) the Mariners go from Spring Training in Peoria to playing real games in Tokyo and then to Seattle next Monday and Tuesday to play MORE EXHIBITION GAMES against the Padres -- then back to real games starting Thursday.

I'm guessing MLB does this so players can vacation and see Tokyo and then have enough time to get re-acclimated to the time change/jet lag when back in the U.S.

7HR combined thus far in a game and a half. Ryon Healy and Mitch Haniger have gone yard today. Standing ovations for Ichiro groundouts... They're saying he might retire after the game today.

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Who knew?

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Yep, they started doing this 20 years ago knowing Ichiro would retire setting it ALL UP for the big 2019 pay off.

Its also stupid that the A's and Mariners play meaningful games, then have to travel back to the states to play even more useless Spring Training Games.

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That is the part I don't get. If it counts then do it to start the season properly fly home and start another series in a couple days. Or make this one an exhibition series.

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Elections have consequences.

I'm sad we didn't get a whistler post asking if anyone went to opening day? What airline did you fly? How did you buy your tickets? Did you eat any Japanese food?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

There's a 162 games, no one would miss them.

Great game this morning!

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So Ichiro is retiring after a game no one is watching?

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Only about $50million Japanese are watching.

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That's like 1 trillion Yen.

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Whoops

What about all that money from the kimonos I wear?

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