Here comes MLB 2007 with Opening Day this week and, as you might have expected, extensive coverage of games on Japanese TV featuring teams with favorite son players -- the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
NHK BS-1 plans to air a whopping 290 major league games this season, and will start the schedule on April 2, with the New York Mets and Cardinals playing ball at 9 a.m. JST.
On April 3 it will be the Devil Rays and Yanks on live, if you want to get up at 2 a.m. Tokyo time for a U.S. East Coast day game.