The 2004 baseball season got underway in Japan at 5 AM (EST) this morning, as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays beat the New York Yankees 8-3 on a homer by ex-Yank Tino Martinez, to drop the Yanks a half-game behind the Red Sox in the closely contested AL East.
If you'd told me a year ago that the Devil Rays would be in first place, a game ahead of the Yankees, in late March, I'd have laughed in your face.
The Japan trip has given the New York papers all sorts of opportunities to make feeble “Lost in Translation” jokes, though the rest of the major league teams don’t begin play until a week from now. At any rate, I’ll have predictions and everything else prior to the weekend…
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