Fun topic!
The first Opening Day I remember caring about was Mets-Cubs in Japan, 2000. I didn't watch a minute of either game due to the start times and me being in elementary school but I remember waking up to anxiously check the box scores.
The first Opening Day I remember actually following was a few years later: 2003, Tom Glavine's Mets debut. I was so excited that the Mets signed him, and his career ended up taking an immediate downturn because the league was starting to implement K-zone to judge umpires, resulting in them cutting out the super wide strikezone that Glavine always took advantage of. At the time I was too young to realize that this was the pattern of being a Mets fan: get hyped when the team signs a big name veteran, only for them to turn into a pumpkin within 1-2 seasons.
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