I can’t decide which aspect of Saturday’s Dodgers/Red Sox bout at Los Angeles Coliseum is more absurd: the fact that 115,300 people wasted their time at an exhibition baseball game or the fact that the distance from home plate to the lef t field foul pole was 201 feet.

The Little League World Series has fences 225 feet away, for gods sake. Dodgers manager Joe Torre used five infielders at a time to combat the field’s peculiar dimensions.

As a Red Sox fan, I don’t know if I should be encouraged that Kevins Cash and Youkilis hit home runs or discouraged that the balls they hit were probably routine fly outs.

The answer is neither. Because it was an exhibition game. So who cares? And why do 115,300 people in the Los Angeles area care?

Real baseball resumes tonight in Washington. I’m guessing both the attendance figure and the distance to the wall at  spankin’ new Nationals Park are both a bit more realistic.