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4.25.2003
Notes on tonight's action... - Very interesting nationally broadcast game on right now on TBS...not because it's particularly competitive, but because John Vander Wal has a pair of home runs for the Brewers and teammate Richie Sexson has three. And it's the seventh inning, so there'll likely be at least one more opportunity for each of them. Shane Reynolds got crushed tonight, not a good sign vs. an offense like that of the Brewers. - I posted something about Shawn Chacon's brief perfect game bid earlier in the year, and how it was jinxed by Kurtwood Smith, notably of That 70's Show. Well, it just happened again. Joe Mays had been cruising through five no-hit, no-walk innings (he had hit a batter, so it wasn't perfect), prompting the YES Network to break into the Yankees-Rangers game with an update. The guy at the YES update desk, Fred Hickman, commented that Mays' effort was a no-hitter thus far. Yankee broadcasters Michael Kay and Ken Singleton laughed, jokingly accusing Hickman of having jinxed the game by mentioning it, with Kay noting the ridiculousness of such superstitions and saying that during the perfect games of David Cone and David Wells, he and then-radio broadcast partner John Sterling uttered the phrase "perfect game" countless times. Of course, the next pitch Mays threw was promptly hit into left for a single by Sandy Alomar, the Junior. - |