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Baseball has started!

This year, the Major Leage Baseball season started with a pair of regular season games (not just exhibition games) in Japan. The two teams featured are the Oakland Athletics and my favorite Boston Red Sox. Japan is 14 hours ahead of Minneapolis, so the night games in Tokyo started at 5 a.m. yesterday and today local time. Fanatic that I am for the Red Sox, I set the alarm yesterday for 4:30 so I could get in to work in time to listen to the live feed of the game starting at 5. I was running a bit late, but luckily so were the Sox. I sprinted from my parking place to lab and just got the computer booted in time to connect to the live feed at 5:10 and hear the first pitch of the new season.


Yesterday's game was thrilling. I was down in the mouse room for most of it. We fell behind, but tied the game in the ninth inning and then won the game in the tenth. What a great way to start the season!

Sadly, this morning's game ended in a loss. I feel partly responsible because I didn't actually get up at 5 a.m. this time. I listened to a replay recording of the broadcast while working on my computer starting at 9 a.m. I'm sure that if I'd gotten my sorry butt out of bed four hours earlier, my additional fan energy would have worked its way to Japan (fan energy travels at the speed of light, of course) and the Red Sox might have found a way to win. I was just too tired after depriving myself of sleep the night before! I'm sorry, Red Sox Nation!

Comments

  1. Anonymous5:10 PM

    Don't blame (just) yourself: Ekrem got up yesterday but not today, too. I slept in both days, so I'm sure it had nothing to do with me.

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  2. Anonymous9:47 AM

    I see I can't keep any secrets.

    Indeed, it was likely our fault. By the time I turned on the TV they were already four runs behind and could never recover.

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  3. MT1:23 PM

    I think the only time I've gotten up ridiculously early to watch TV broadcast from another country was for Princess Diana's funeral! -liz

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