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Boston Red Sox (0-0) @ Oakland Athletics (0-0)
Daisuke Matsuzaka (0-0, -.–) @ Joe Blanton (0-0, -.–)
6:05 AM EDT | Tokyo Dome (Tokyo, Japan)
TV: NESN | RADIO: WEEI, XM 177

GAME NOTES: Wow… I’m making a game thread again. Baseball’s back, baby! Today, Matsuzaka begins his sophomore campaign and a lot of people expect it to be a lot better than his 17-12, 4.40 ERA season last year. We’ll start finding out this morning, as the game starts at an impossibly early time. It’ll certainly be a strange feeling to wake up at dawn and flip the game on. (Quick aside to the community: As you can see, the chat function is also back this year for game threads. Last year, the chat was hit or miss… sometimes there were a decent amount of people in the chat, other times not so much. Should we continue making the chat option available?)