The MLB’s Opening Seoul Series has been a complete disaster.

Most sports fans across the US woke up today with the crazy realization that a regular season MLB game took place today, and the fact that nobody knew until after the game happened is an all time blunder by the MLB.

For starters, I did not see a single advertisement, whether on TV or social media promoting this game, only tweets from fans, which is issue number one. How does a multi-billion dollar industry such as Major Leauge Baseball, not know it needs to market Opening Day? Aside from the playoffs and maybe the All Star game there is no bigger day than Opening Day in the MLB calendar, even if it's only 2 teams playing on that day. The lack of promotion on behalf of the MLB is just astonishing. But somehow not even the worst part about this mess.

For some unexplained reason the MLB decided to play this game at quite literally the worst time imaginable, 6:00am Eastern Time, or 3:00am on the west coast, where both the Dodgers and Padres are located. I can only question, who in their right mind scheduled this!??? I know the MLB likely wanted to draw more fans to the game on Korea, but alienating the fans of the actual teams playing seems like an all time blunder. What about the casual fan in San Diego who wants to start watching the Padres this year? What if he finds out that opening day already happened and he says "oh well it's too hard to find these games so I might as well not watch anyways"? Just insane.

And on top of all that, after these two games take place, both the Dodgers and Padres head right back to Spring Training until the 28th when the rest of the MLB starts it's regular season. I understand you have to build in Travel days for the teams traveling across the pacific, but creating a scenario in which there is more than an entire week between regular season games at the start of the season just kills all the hype around the start of the season.

Major Leauge Baseball really needs to get its stuff together if it really wants to continue to hold on to its old fans, as well as gain new viewers. Because disasters like this can kill a sport.