Set Your Alarm Clocks
The Sox released the official announcement on the Japan trip they’ll make to open the season – and you’re going to need to plan to stay up late and get up early to catch the action.
Red Sox vs. Hanshin Tigers (exhibition) – March 21st, 11:07 pm ET
Red Sox vs. Yomiuri Giants (exhibition) – March 23rd, 6:07 am ET
Red Sox vs. Oakland Athletics (in Tokyo) – March 25th, 6:07 am ET
Red Sox vs. Oakland Athletics (in Tokyo) – March 26th, 6:07 am ET
Per the official release:
The general public will have the ability to buy tickets for all four games in Tokyo on Feb. 9. Information is available by calling 011-81-3-5777-8600 between 6 p.m.-10 a.m. ET. More specific ticket information is expected to be available through Major League Baseball in the near future.The Fenway Sports Group, through its Red Sox Destinations program, has also put together a unique travel package for fans who want to attend the series. It includes seats for three games, including the two against Oakland, as well as round-trip private charter airfare from Boston to Tokyo and four nights hotel accommodations.Standard Red Sox Destination packages to Japan start at $4,999 and are available now.
If I had friends around my house who were big fans, I’d definitely plan a bit overnight w/ the Sox Opening Day Spectacular with them. Stay up all night, talk baseball, watch the WS DVD, hope for a pregame show, the usual.
Oh and speaking of NESN related goodness, apparently they’re upping the ante with teh Spring Training coverage. How so?
http://news.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/media/view.bg?articleid=1067063&srvc=home&position=also
Apparently 2-hour live(LIVE!) coverage of a few selected workouts and probably some other good stuff too mixed in. I’m all for it, this winter can’t be over with soon enough and come February 13 I will be amped and pumped and amped for Spring Training(the 11th is the real beginning for me for Spring Training because that’s when the truck leaves Fenway for Fort Myers and usually early arrivals are there by then)
Thanks for this info! I wonder if the exhibition games will be televised (esp. on ESPN). I’m going to have to get the directv sports package for the baseball season so I can watch NESN (in addition to the mlb extra innings package). I know that NESN doesn’t show a lot of the Sox programming to people out of area, but I’ll have to see how lucky we get ;-).
3am home opener. That’s early, but I can do it. I’ll have to add it to the days I need to take off. (Now if the A’s will start selling single game tix I can get some to opening day in Oakland!)
if only i had an extra $4999 lying around …
Piney–thanks so much for the link! That sounds so awesome. 120 minutes of undiluted Sox… as if I was there. :D
Now, why can’t we just skip the next month or so?
sigh… $10K is ALOT for 2 people, to Japan, for only 4 days…. damn my mediocre paycheck and the slumping housing market!
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr