From a soccer perspective, the upcoming Major League Baseball season-opening series between the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome feels like a glimpse into a parallel universe.
Two teams from a glamorous overseas sports league duke it out in a competitive, meaningful contest in front of an entranced Tokyo audience with money to burn.
If things had been different, this could have been the English Premier League.
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