Yesterday White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle pitched a perfect game. A perfect game is one where no one reaches base – not on hits, walks, hit batters, anything. (“No-hitters” are much more common in that they allow for walks.) Perfect games have only happened 19 times in major league baseball history.
Even for those who don’t appreciate baseball, I recommend checking out this video montage of all 27 outs of yesterday’s Chicago White Sox game. Especially noteworthy is the ABSURD catch by Wise in the ninth at 4:25. He leaps up and snags a ball as its about to sail out of the park, and then drops it on the way down, only to catch it with his bare hand and keep it high for the officials. Amazing!
Side note: It really really annoys me that the announcer says “he gone!” whenever a player is struck out. Ugh.
That’s their schtick and I find it impossible to watch the White Sox on TV for that reason. Those announcers also consistently refer to the White Sox as the good guys throughout the broadcast.
My dad will often choose to dislike a sports team if their announcers are obnoxious.
I find it kind of interesting that you don’t like the white sox for that reason because you love LOLcats, and I kind of seem the two in a similar light.
Example.
Hmm…
See, that I don’t mind at all, in fact I think it’s both cute AND hilarious.
What video montage?
Ooops! I forgot to make the link.
It is now fixed.
This entry is really interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_game
I find all of the stuff like: 27 innings of perfection, perfect games broken by the 27th batter, no-hit, no-walk, no-HBP games to be fascinating. For example, the no-hitter that the Giants threw a few weeks ago…. the pitcher threw a perfect game, but there was a fielding error!
Thanks, that was a good video. I only like the White Sox because of the movie Eight Men Out, but it’s still neat to see some baseball history.