CHICAGO–Baseball is back at Wrigley Field, and with it comes 1:20 p.m. first pitches. With that, comes the Chicago masses sitting at “work” watching live, pitch-by-pitch updates of the game over the internet.

For many Cubs fans, though, Opening Day was ruined by MLB.com’s “GameDay” feature, which allows visitors to track in real time the events of the game.

“GameDay totally sucked [gonads] yesterday,” longtime Cubs fan Marty Turik said. “The guy a couple cubes away from me was listening to the game on the radio, so I could hear him groaning or cheering, like, 5 minutes before something actually happened,” the exasperated Turik explained. “It totally bit.”

Turik’s co-worker, Amy Rastov, had a similar experience. “I was trying to time my lunch so that I’d get to see some of the middle of the game,” Rastov said. “I had been watching the game on GameDay, so I thought I left my cube in the middle of the second inning. By the time I got to the bar downstairs and ordered a drink, it was, like, the bottom of the 6th!” Rastov complained.

“Dude, I don’t even know what happened to the Cubs yesterday,” annoyed Cubs fan Willie Barton said. “I had to shut that [expletive] down because I couldn’t take it anymore. I didn’t know what the situation was, who was up, nothing. At one point, GameDay said Lilly was pitching to Soriano. I don’t watch a whole lot of baseball, but isn’t that impossible?”

“I had the game recorded on my TiVo, so I was all set to watch it when I got home from work,” Barton continued. “I avoided the internet on my computer once I stopped watching GameDay so I wouldn’t hear the score, and I almost made it out of the building before some [expletive] from accounting says to me, ‘Too bad about those Cubs, huh Willie?’ After she ruined it, I just went home and deleted it. [expletive][expletive].”

The Cubs lost the home opener to the Astros 5-3. Barton filled the space he cleared on his TiVo by deleting the game with two old episodes of King of Queens and the film Another 9 1/2 Weeks.