We'll wake up to a baseball season tomorrow

[Frayed Knot]

A's & Mariners from Tokyo both Wednesday and Thursday. Both times it counts!!!

5:35 AM EDT on ESPN





Ichiro will be in the starting lineup for the M's, making him the second oldest player ever to do so on OD.

But I'm not going to make this into a quiz because you'll all instantly guess Julio Franco and you all will, of course, be correct.



Ichiro will be 45-149 by tomorrow's game (and be in the same time zone where he was born) whereas Julio was 47 y/o plus about 8 months when he manned 1st base (and played all 16 innings - going 1-for-6)

for the Braves in their opening day game in 2005.



Franco, I'm sure you'll all remember, had previously played for the Milwaukee Braves, the Boston Braves, but also (little known fact) for the Sioux Braves during the '76 season, the one which concluded with

their dominating four-game sweep of the 7th Cavalry team and their star hurler, George Custer.

[Fman99]

I'm watching, and then listening once I get to work. It's baseball and the games count so I'm in.