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Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles(Sendai's team) in the US?


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Heard an interesting, not neccesarily serious, plea on NPR this morning. Basically, they noted that Fullcast Stadium has suffered damage and they wondered why doesn't MLB bring those guys over here for a few weeks fill some stadiums and raise some money. I liked it! It's probably a logistical impossibility but, hey, it's wonderful to think about. Sendai's my team since I lived there for years and I have been to a number of games. I've heard no accounts of the actual stadium but it's well away from the coast so would not have been hit by the tsunami.

I'm just curious what kind of reception an idea like this would get. Taking aside the NPB season and stadium problems here, I think they could fill stadiums in CA, NY, and maybe some others for the idea of seeing the team and raising some money. Either way I'd sure love to see MLB use this an opportunity to create unity amongst MLB and NPB.

I say bring the boys over...and slip Iwakuma a contract for the Brewers amongst the autograph seekers!
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Fill stadiums? Who would they play? And, the MLB season is about to begin, so no exhibitions allowed.

Perhaps they play some of their regular season games. I have little doubt that they could fill some stadiums in CA for few days since there happens to be a few people with connections to Japan there and that's beside the whole raising money or novelty angle.

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