Though a lifelong fan, there was no way I could watch the opener as it happened on live television, because the game started at 3am Pacific U.S. time, as I get up around 6am every Wednesday for my weekly early day at the library (I start at 8). Gina and I later found out that a re-broadcast of the game would be on a 7:30pm, sixteen hours after it actually happened. I tried so hard not to find out who won the opener, because I wanted to see it without knowing the outcome beforehand--told everyone at work not to tell me who won, I avoided the radio sports channel, baseball websites, etc.
We made it to 7pm and started to watch "The Charlie Rose Show" on the Bloomberg Business network as we waited for 7:30 TV baseball broadcast. And with only 20 minutes to go, the business blurbs at the bottom of the screen read: "Seattle beats Oakland 3-1 to start baseball season in Tokyo." I had been able to avoid that info
for thirteen hours, but no more. Pretty weird to see the A's tie the game at 1-1 and then
be able to say, "well, that's the only run they're going to get!"