Well...I got up and watched the game this morning (6am start). I
hate waking up early!
But...it
is baseball.
Both teams were wearing advertising patches on their sleeves.
A Pepsi patch for the Athletics and E=MC(2) for the Sox. AND..."Ricoh" stickers on both teams' batting helmets.
**Brandon Moss just tied the game with a HR in the top of the 9th inning! Woohoo!
In an in-game interview, Bud Selig said "it's great" that people are up early watching baseball on opening day. He's smokin' some bad stuff. It's bad enough that east coasters are up @ 6am and tuning in for baseball...but it's 3am on the west coast! It's stupid. He then went into some spiel about the internationalization of MLB. Apparently his master plan is based on an improvement in air travel. He's either been watching too much science fiction or I couldn't comprehend what was being said because it was too early in the morning!
Selig also complained--at least TWICE--about being tired because of his traveling to Japan. I would think maybe that would give him some kind of clue as to why it might, then, be a bad idea to have the ballplayers make that trip at the beginning fo the season.
**The game just went to extra innings! Woohoo! Bonus baseball in game #1!