Running 2017 MLB regular season thread

I'm going to go ahead and put this evil out in the world: Kershaw pitches a no-no tonight.

 

I'm sure many fans back then didn't see much in Six-Inning George.

 

After our freshman year in college, a bunch of us visited our friend in central Jersey. Our plan during the week was to hit NYC one day (and take in a Yankees-Mariners game), and hit Philly the next day. A lady friend of our Jersey buddy wanted to join us for the NYC day, but couldn't on the day we picked.

We decided to switch days, hitting Philly first and NYC the next. And instead, we took in a Phillies-Giants game at the Vet (Schilling was pitching; we thought that was a good Option B).

We get back to the car after the Phillies game and turn on the radio. Dwight Gooden is 3 outs away from a no-hitter.

I hate that bitch.

 

Similar thing happened to me, but I ended up hating myself.

Friend had an extra ticket to the Braves game where Randy Johnson pitched a perfect game. I decided not to go because I was studying for finals - or at least that is what I was supposed to do. Ended up drinking and watching the game and yelling "Don't you fucking do it, Randy!" a lot.

 

My great regret was while I was in a ballpark. My friend shoved his phone in my face while an unassisted triple play happened.

"What just happened? What'd we miss?" he asked me.

"SOMETHING THAT'S ONLY HAPPENED LIKE SEVEN TIMES IN HUMAN HISTORY YOU TURD SHRAPNEL!"

 

I took the train from Trenton to D.C. to meet up with some SJ'ers to watch Randy Johnson go for 300. It fucking poured that day.

I had to work the next day. Johnson got his 300th.

 

Drove me to the calculator as I remembered the '84 Tigers started 35-5 (.875). The 30-4 records are .882. Good note.

 

Come on, how sick could he actually be?

 

I am going on a date with a real girl tonight instead of going to the game, so this is pretty much all I've been thinking about for the last couple of days.

 

If he does put up zeroes, she better be the one. Then you could have a cool "I gotta see about a girl" Robin Williams backstory to tell your kids one day.

 

I'll have to catch him at Wrigley, but the fact that the Cubs are, you know, good, cuts back considerably on the odds that something special might happen. Plus, the Cell/Guaranteed Rate is my ballpark. And we had great seats, because you can reasonably afford great seats there.

 

Uh-huh, sure you are, Lars.