-CO>     I also like to add, that the Cardinals have took a 11
-CO> to 12 hour
-CO> plane trip which is pretty long.  To have a game against a
-CO> team that i
-CO> forgot just now.  But they play a team in honolulu which
-CO> will happen on
-CO> Sunday night or tonight i think which is a saturday.  A
-CO> double header
-CO> and i just wanted to know what reason they are playing down
-CO> there.
-CO> Because does this mean that baseball is going to move teams
-CO> to far off
-CO> places like honolulu and who knows where else?
 
This is an attempt to broaden baseball's popularity - and also
to bring it to places where fans do not get an opportunity to
see MLB.  Last year the San Diego Padres played some "home away
from home" games in Monterrey, Mexico.  This year they are doing
it in Honolulu.
 
It is not unprecedented.  In the mid-1950s, the Brooklyn Dodgers
played some "home games" in New Jersey.  I don't know if the 
Giants did.  If my memory is correct, the Chicago White Sox
played a handful of games in Milwaukee.
 
The NBA has done it throughout its history.  In the sixties,
the Celtics, 76ers, and Knicks always traded off home games
with each other to create NBA doubleheaders.  This reduced
the number of games on the home schedule, making it easier
to sell season tickets.  It also reduced some traveling 
expenses for visting teams, particularly the west coast
expansion teams.  Example - the Celtics might have played
Seattle in the first game of a doubleheader in New York,
and Phoenix played the Knicks in the nightcap.  The next
night, the Knicks would play Seattle in the first game of
a doubleheader in Boston, and Phoenix would play the Celtics.
 
Teams often played "home away from home games".  Up until 
two years ago, the Celtics would play three or four games
a year in Hartford.  The Washington Bullets still return
to Baltimore once in awhile.  
 
Don't know why baseball doesn't do this.  In fact, in lieu
of interleague play, they could have a doubleheader involving
four different teams.  Then again, they don't play too many
doubleheaders anymore.
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