As usual - my A's get NO respect...

Never mind 4 World Series titles, never mind they've won more games since 2000, never mind they're the ONLY team not named "Yankees" to win 3 STRAIGHT World Series, Japan's only interested in the damn Red Sox:

(03-24) 04:00 PDT Tokyo -- Perhaps they aren't quite the Washington Generals of the Tokyo Dome, but the A's open the season Tuesday night as the anonymous foil to their opponents, the Boston Red Sox. That has been abundantly clear since Oakland arrived in Japan last week.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/24/SPGJVP781.DTL

Well, boys, time to kick some bean-eatin' ass...