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The Big Unit looks like an extremely tall version of Pips' half-brother.

I'm always missing perfect games and no-hitters and the like. Fess up, you all make sure this stuff happens when I'm not around.

Actually, this couldn't have happened to a more deserving player. Go, Randy!

If it's any consolation, I've never seen anything like this either. A stolen base here and there is about the extent of the drama I've seen on the diamond.

This reminds me: we should go watch some minor-league ball.

When Tom Browning pitched a perfect game for the Reds in 1988, I heard it on the radio but I wasn't there. I saw him pitch a lot of really fast games, though - he was always my favorite pitcher to watch because he never hung around, he just played ball.

And Jason Schmidt of my beloved but dubiously talented Giants pitched a one-hitter on the same night.

If it's any consolation, I've never seen anything like this either.
Are you sure, not even a legend hit a ball. A player you knew would be a hall of famer one day hit a home run...nothing?

I once caught a HR ball to right at vets stadium that was hit by mike schmidt.

ok, so it wasn't really mike schmidt, it was john kruk.

and my dad caught it, by gave it to me right afterwards.

it was vets stadium tho. it was ugly there.

Oh my gawd, Kruk. He used to be my Most Hated Player. I have no idea why - I was just fixated on him as the Ultimate Baseball Evil.

He's probably a teddy bear now, since the operation and all.

(that was mean.)

It's written in plain English, by friends of mine I'm used to reading, the vocabulary is familiar and yet, no matter how many times I go over the various comments, I cannot bloody understand a word of it!

Who the hell are these people? You Americans, you're cocooned - you know that, don't you? You've cut yourselves off from the world; you're living in a private fantasy-land of obscurity and pathological quirkiness! Repent! Stop calling your parochial passions "The World Series" - and don't give me that guff about the World referring to a newspaper, coz it's been debunked, see?

*sniff*

You guys really know how to make a furriner feel left out

*primal bawl*

*starts mumbling*

Because deep down, Doctor, really deep down - and I do like being a Portagee, I do - what I truly actually wanted to be was not a lumberjack, not a Canadian no, but an American... from Connecticut...or Maine... somewhere nice but wild along the Atlantic coast...Manhattan...

*fade out*

Oh my gawd, Kruk. He used to be my Most Hated Player.

I loved Kruk. How can you not love personal style like that. I loved the Wild Thing, Dutch Daulton, Schilling, Lenny Dykstra and all the rest of those reprobates. That was when ballplayers were ballplayers, man.

Whadaya mean, Miguel? The Blue Jays and Expos aren't good enough for ya?

C'mon over across the pond and join us on a nice sunny afternoon. We'll get you some Cracker Jack, Beer Nuts, a cold one, and a hotdog. We'll enjoy the summer breezes, the crack of the bat, banter with the people siting nearby. We'll get peanut shells all over our trousers. We'll explain the sacrifice fly, the seventh-inning stretch, the bunt, and the knuckleball. We'll do the wave, and high-five the mascot, and taunt the batter. You'll have a good time.

And it's way more interesting than cricket.

And somewhere I have an autographed picture of a seven-year-old me with Robin Yount, at the Brewers' Picture Day in 1982. It was cool.

And Jason Schmidt of my beloved but dubiously talented Giants pitched a one-hitter on the same night.

I have a coworker that just returned from a trip to St. Louis & Chicago. Turns out he was at that game. He said that the one hit was awfully close to being an out. That'd been sweet to have two no hitters in one night.

Man, I have to say Kruk really really sucks on Baseball Tonight.

And Miguel, this is how we Americans feel when Euros talk about "irony".

And, finally, I beg of you, no "wave".

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