Big Deal, Move On

What’s the big ruckus over all the stuff that went on this past weekend? Some guy throws a no-hitter for the first time in the team’s history, the Mets and Cardinals play a twenty inning game, and the New York friggin’ Yankees are being compared to Jesus again. The no-hitter? Yeah, it was special and what not, but it was no as special as all those yutzes make it sound. To no hit a team means no one on the opposing team gets a hit. However, the pitcher walked six guys in the game! Congratulations on making it a risk for your team to lose. Now a perfect game is what is amazing. There have only been eighteen total perfect games. That’s right, eighteen, with a big fat 1 followed by an even larger 8. That is 27 men up, 27 men down, no one reaches base. Compare that to the 264 no hitters in baseball history. That averages to almost two no hitters per season. That equals out to about one perfect game every ten or eleven years. Pop quiz hot shot, what’s a more amazing feat, the no hitter or the twenty inning game? The correct answer is the twenty inning game. There have only been 42 games to ever go into twenty innings. Five of them ended in a tie. Even more amazing, or sad depending on how you look at it, both teams were scoreless for the first 18 innings. The no hitter? Pssh, I spit on that. The never ending game, it is more impressive, but went way past my bed time.