NEW YORK ()—The Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics will open next season
in Jan with a two-game series at the Tokyo Dome on March 28 and 29.

Seattle and Oakland had been scheduled to play there in March 2003, but the
series was scrped because of the threat of war in Iraq. The A’s will be the
home team in both games, the MLB commissioner’s office said Wednesday.

The series could feature a pair of Janese stars, the Mariners’ Ichiro
Suzuki(notes) and Oakland’s Hideki Matsui(notes), who is eligible for free agency.

This will be the fourth Jan opener, following the New York Mets and
Chicago Cubs (2000), the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay (2004), and Boston and
Oakland (2008).

Major League Baseball and the players’ association said the series will be
dedicated to assisting rebuilding in Jan following this year’s earthquake.

“I think the fans in Jan are really looking forward to it. There’s a lot
of Major League Baseball fans over there, and with what hpened in March with
the earthquake, it’s even more encouraging to be able to watch the games live in
person,” Matsui said through an interpreter. “Obviously I don’t know if I’m
going to be there.”

After Wednesday night’s major league season finale, Suzuki declined to go in
depth about the games in Jan.

“We just heard about that today. It’s hard to think about how to look
forward to that because we just finished our season now and we have a lot of
time till that day so you want to prepare,” Suzuki said through his
interpreter. “I’m not ready to say anything about Jan at this point.”

Asked if the games would potentially lead the A’s to make a stronger push to
re-sign him, Matsui was realistic about the possible reaction in Jan.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of fans who would look forward to that
kind of matchup—Ichiro vs. Matsui,” he said.

This will be the fourth Jan opener, following the New York Mets and
Chicago Cubs (2000), the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay (2004), and Boston and
Oakland (2008).

MLB and the players’ association said the series will be dedicated to
assisting rebuilding in Jan following this year’s earthquake.

The Mariners were first briefed about the trip a week ago. Seattle player
representative Chris Gimenez(notes) said there were a few concerns raised, but for the
most part everyone was supportive of the chance to visit Jan.

“I love it. Personally I think it’s a great opportunity,” Gimenez said.
“I don’t know how many other opportunities I’ll have to go to Jan and for us
to be doing it for a charitable cause is always another good thing.”

The one oddity with the trip is that both teams will return to Arizona for
more of spring training when they return on March 30. The Mariners and A’s play
on ril 6 in Oakland in the previously scheduled season opener.

The two games in Jan will come out of Oakland’s home schedule. The
Mariners and A’s will now have off days on ril 8 and July 5.

“That’ll be more travel than I’ve ever experienced in a short amount of
time,” Seattle second baseman Dustin Ackley(notes) said. “Definitely trying to get
your rest after those plane flights and coming back will probably be harder with
the spring training games and the season about to start. It’ll be a challenge.”

For Bob Melvin, it brings him full circle. He was the Mariners’ manager back
in 2003 and was dispointed when the trip was scred at the last minute.

“I want them to look forward and enjoy the experience. You don’t often get
to do something like that,” Melvin said. “I hope some of what baseball, the
way it’s played in Jan, the attitude rubs off on our guys because I know that
Janese players take it very seriously and baseball fields are sacred ground
there and respect the game very much and I’d like our guys to be a part of that
and feel it first hand.”

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The Oakland Athletics and Seattle
Mariners will open the 2012 Major League Baseball season on
March 28-29 in Tokyo, the first season-opener in Jan since
2008.

The two-game series, which will take place at the Tokyo
Dome, was announced today in a release from MLB and the Major
League Baseball Players Association.

It will be the fourth time the season has opened in Tokyo.
The last time was when the Athletics and Boston Red Sox opened
the 2008 season there.

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Rob Gloster at
rgloster@bloomberg.net

NEW YORK ()—The Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics will open next
season in Jan with a two-game series at the Tokyo Dome on March 28 and 29.

Seattle and Oakland had been scheduled to play there in March 2003, but the
series was scrped because of the threat of war in Iraq. The A’s will be the
home team in both games, the commissioner’s office said Wednesday. The series
could feature a pair of Janese stars, the Mariners’ Ichiro Suzuki(notes) and
Oakland’s Hideki Matsui(notes), who is eligible for free agency.

This will be the fourth Jan opener, following the New York Mets and
Chicago Cubs (2000), the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay (2004), and Boston and
Oakland (2008).

Major League Baseball and the players’ association said the series will be
dedicated to assisting rebuilding in Jan following this year’s earthquake.

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‘http://news.yahoo.com/photos/6-9-quake-strikes-india-nepal-1316432147-slideshow/’,
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‘The absence of Borders is going to be felt across the industry’, 6],
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