Are the Lords of Swimming competing for some mysterious "Worst Oversight Ever" award with their bizarre decision to ban the high tech new swimsuits later, but not now? What is the promotional pitch - "You can't take the records seriously, you can't take the new champions seriously - Enjoy!".
Oh, well - at least the "Worst Oversight" award may not go to the Mets. Psych! It will.
JOHNNY VANDER MEER WATCH: Mark Buehrle of the White Sox follows his perfect game by being perfect against Minnesota through five. 61 pitches? I bet they leave him in a while.
CAN TOUCH THIS: Minnesota breaks through! Span singles with two outs in the sixth.
TM-
There's a reason there are only eighteen perfect games, teamwork and circumstance.
Good for Mark, because he IS the best in the leagues right now.
And a nice guy, to boot.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | July 28, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Nice going, Buehrle.
(Happy Jim Rice Day.)
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | July 28, 2009 at 11:12 PM
There have been 7 perfect games pitched since my son was born. He was at the game for 2 of them (Rogers and Johnson). Weird factoid of the day...
Posted by: Stephanie | July 29, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Stephanie, he should contact his favorite pitchers for free tickets.
Posted by: Ralph L | July 29, 2009 at 01:00 AM
Heh. His favs are retired now... Maddux & Glavine.
Tommy Hanson is a possibility...
Posted by: Stephanie | July 29, 2009 at 01:22 AM
Well, Buehrle did set a new record for consecutive batters retired. Boy, they keep track of everything, don't they?
I wonder though, will 45 consecutive batters retired be as hard to break as hitting in 56 consecutive games?
Posted by: JorgXMcKie | July 29, 2009 at 01:43 AM
Heck Phelps had last years suit and he couldn't win the 200M.
Posted by: Gerald | July 29, 2009 at 05:36 AM
I forgot. The winner, the German Ber???? said that the new (this year's suit) took 2 seconds off his time.
Posted by: Gerald | July 29, 2009 at 05:37 AM
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.
Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him, Sgt. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Posted by: pop | July 29, 2009 at 07:03 AM
Pretty good article on our current financial state and it's links to personal Debt.
LUN.
Posted by: Pofarmer | July 29, 2009 at 08:37 AM
Once the suits are banned next year, the current records could last a long time, something I'm sure the current record-holders don't mind.
Posted by: jimmyk | July 29, 2009 at 09:22 AM
The obvious solution is to make everyone swim nude. The secure men will all use an ice bucket before each race.
Posted by: Ralph L | July 29, 2009 at 05:33 PM
I know of at least one high school in Chicago which had nude swim classes. Dad of one of my classmates, so the era would have been 50's, maybe early 60's.
Posted by: cathyf | July 29, 2009 at 08:07 PM
Cathyf, it was quite common at YMCA's to have separate swimming times. I think the East German Olympic practiced nude for a while in the 80's. With all the 'roids, they had difficulty telling the men from the ...men.
Posted by: Ralph L | July 29, 2009 at 09:33 PM