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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Like most people I pretty much ignored this, but after seeing some of the insane ratings from Japan I mostly came away wondering how long before we have MLB expansion into Japan. It's obviously a declining sport in North America, so the long term growth prospects here are bleak, but if you're getting 50 million people in Japan to watch glorified spring training, how many could you get for a Yomiuri Giants/New York Yankees playoff game? How much gate money could you get from that?
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Maybe an invitational tournament yearly between the WS winner and the respective winners of a sub tournament for Asia, South America and Europe? Expanded Memorial cup style. I don't think you could just plop 1 or 2 MLB teams into Japan, that'd be deadly travel on an MLB schedule