Global Series

[jersey cubs fan]

If you want to get there though, you have to start somewhere. The U.S. and Japan have the two best professional leagues, with the U.S. certainly a very large step above. Why not start with a series between the two?

 

The answer is very simple, baseball is already huge in both countries. Forcing a series between the two (when I believe their seasons don't even matchup timewise) does nothing to grow the game globally. If you want to do that, have other Asians leagues play each other, try to get teams in Europe, or deeper into South America and the Asia Pacific region.

 

If the Yankees played the Yomiuri Giants in November, where would that have been played, first off, and how would that grow world wide interest in the game?

[TruffleShuffle]

plus what's the point??? congratulations you just won the championship of your league! many of your pitchers are tired and it has been a long grind of a season! let's go play a series against a japanese team where the winner receives nothing!

[USSoccer]

Instead of doing this stupid crap, if you want to "grow the global game" shorten the season by two weeks and pressure the IOC into making baseball an Olympic sport, OR use the extra 2 weeks to hold the WBC in July every 4 years. That makes it an event, something that comes along not every year, players are in season and in shape, puts the stupid patriotism card in play, it only affects 25 guys, and in the non WBC/Olympic years the World Series doesn't go into November.

[TruffleShuffle]

mlbpa would never go for that either, since shorter season = less revenue = less pay for players. shortening by two weeks would be about 12 games, or about 7.5%. players aren't going to want to lose something like 5-7.5% off their salaries just so that a small handful of them can play in an unpaid exhibition after the season.