1.  I am very clearly insane, as I set my cell phone alarm for 3:30 in the morning and woke up for this thing. Who's with me? Who's with me, I say?

2.  Thank God there is someone else on this thread. I was prepared to talk to myself.

3.  Is this game televised? For some reason ESPN2 is blacked out...

4.  3
Yeah. You must live where you get a local feed of the game.

5.  I'm awake.

I'm getting ESPN2 just fine. Oh, boy, Steve Phillips. Yay.

6.  Park factor for the Tokyo Dome is 950, according to BP. Yay, baseball! Boo, my girlfriend for having issues with the 3:30 a.m. thing!

7.  5
At the very least, you will get a lot of Bobby Crosby commentary with Phillips in the booth.

8.  How long is Chavez out for, A's fans?

9.  8 Probably another month.

10.  Mark Ellis still has that last year power!

11.  Ellis! That's my guy!

12.  Barton showing the great eye as usual. He is my starting first baseman at the moment for my fantasy team.

13.  It feels really nice to be watching baseball again. Although the between-innings music they are piping into the T-Dome sounds unspeakably dreadful even in tiny servings.

14.  Good first inning for the A's.

15.  The little logo behind home plate reminds me of the Thunder Stix I received at an A's game in 2002 that say "JAPAN SERIES."

16.  11 : Even before the homer, the Red Sox radio announcers were identifying him as one of the most underrated players in the league, and I wondered if they'd been reading Catfish Stew.

Man, I'm tired.

17.  Blanton looking good so far, but I miss Haren. He lived in Walnut Creek just like me. I used to see him around town.

18.  I thought Sweeney got all of that for a second.

19.  Some of us are up in the Midwest as well...

20.  16 I feel like one of the little people in "The Sims." You can get them out of bed when their energy bar is at zero, but they ain't gonna like it. I particularly felt this way when drinking my first cup of coffee, I could imagine the little green arrows zipping my energy bar slightly towards full... for a second.

The bottom of the first inning demonstrated to me why the A's shouldn't crater this year: they're not likely to waste many at-bats this season on guys with no plate value whatsoever.

21.  That's Buck's hole: up the ladder.

22.  Billy Beane talking to Steve Phillips tomorrow. I cannot wait.

23.  Hey A's fans: did Joey Devine make the team??

24.  23
No.

That looked like a ball to me.

25.  24 I wasn't happy to see him go....here's hoping that Kotsay will do his part and put up a 220/310/330 through April so we can get Jordan Shafer up by mid May.

26.  Why is there a sign behind home plate that says "1 kg CO2"? Who the heck advertises carbon dioxide?

27.  Uh-oh. Blanton's running out of gas.

28.  Rick Reed has one tight strike zone.

29.  Woohoo! Hannahan!

30.  Ganbate, Hannahan!

31.  Good to see that Snyder still sucks.

32.  Hmm...I just realized that maybe 27 answers my question in 26

33.  Keith Foulke? Oh no! He's been awful so far.

34.  Keith Foulke is back!

35.  Well, OK then. I take it back.

36.  Dang!

Nice play, Jacoby.

37.  I can't believe we had 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. feedings and I couldn't get the game on. The weird thing is that most of our HBO is out too, but all the other channels seem to work.

38.  My 9-month-old woke up at 3am with me and wanted to play. I played with her for a couple innings, then she went back to sleep.

39.  Drat.

40.  Good God no! I cannot take extra innings.

41.  Big advantage Boston now. They still have Okajima and Papelbon to use;; the A's have burned their best relievers.

42.  Free baseball.

43.  I'm in Montréal. We don't have the Expos anymore, but hey, opening day baseball on TV, in the morning, before leaving for work, when it's about -15 Celsius in the morning, with about 5 feet of snow everywhere... That's not too bad!

44.  Street should have stayed in AZ.

45.  Terrible pitch selection. No reason to throw anything but sliders in the dirt. High fastball to Manny? Nuts.

46.  That was some pretty good Man Ramming.

47.  I take 45 back. That was a hanging slider.

48.  Now THAT was terrible. Just stupid baserunning.

49.  Dumb way to lose. Bah.

50.  God that sucked. I'm calling in sick to work.

51.  I actually woke up around 5:00 I think and had the TV, but then I went back to sleep sort of and had one of those states where you're dreaming, but the stuff on the TV is incorporated into your dreams.

The A's and Red Sox were actually playing in an outdoor stadium attached to a department store.

Eventually, my cat knocked something off of my dresser and then I woke up for good in the bottom of the 10th.

52.  It was a pretty cool feeling to watch the A's season opener live while eating breakfast this morning. (And Barton looks awesome)

Now the feeling is not so good as the game is over and I'm stuck at work for another 6 hours with a stiff neck from not sleeping enough.

Ah baseball, the things I do for you...

53.  At one point, I had a dream that a Sweeney was batting for a Sweeney. But that was no dream!

54.  I don't know which I'm more disappointed about ...

a) sleeping through the first game of the season
b) waking up to hear that the closer on one of my fantasy teams blew the save

55.  One of the closers on my fantasy team blew the save, and another one picked him up. That's what teammates do! We've got great chemistry.

56.  On the downside, I just woke up to watch the game, but my DVR blew it. I don't know what happened. I live in the Bay Area, but the Murky News doesn't list a local broadcast so I don't think ESPN2 should have been blacked out.

And the archive on MLB.tv wasn't up yet, and my best efforts to block the screen couldn't keep me from seeing the Sox won, so screw waiting. No way I can watch a recorded sporting event that I know the result to.

57.  I feel cheated for some reason

58.  I set the alarm for 3am, and had the TV on ESPN2, but I was in and out of sleep the entire game. Pretty much only heard audio. I'll try again tomorrow since I don't have a late-ending Laker game to contend with tonight.

59.  There's nothing scarier than having Steve Phillips inhabit your subconscious dream world.

60.  59

how about Joe Morgan inhabiting it?

61.  I guess it's time to go into intense psychoanalysis now. I think I will have to start with 8 sessions a week.

62.  In case anyone wants to read it, I stayed up and wrote a running diary of the game:

http://diablomag.com/D-blog/Best-Of-Editor-Picks/January-2008/Oakland-As-Opening-Day-Night-Fever-Dream-Blog/

63.  Or how about this:

http://tinyurl.com/388hkn