Posted on 05/18/2004 6:36:14 PM PDT by Mmmike
Keep your eyes on Atlanta folks as it's shaping up to be a *really* quick night for the Diamondbacks... Johnson did it once in 1990 but he's never done it like this.
Go to the source URL and click his mug shot on the left.
Thanks for the post of the pix's.
Baseball Rules!!
Wow! Randy Johnson still packs heat with his pitches! If he could maintain his skill level to smoke hitters for a few more years, then he should surpass Nolan Ryan's strikeout record.
I was gonna go there and suggest that...for that is truly my thought as to what a perfect game is...but I toned it down a bit because I figured someone would get on me for figuratively poo-pooing Randy's accomplishment.
Would like to be seen as a radical now, would I?
GO D-BACKS!
Randy hangs out with Alice Cooper a lot here in Phoenix. Apparently they jam in the Unit's basement.
I have 2 methods for screencaps.
1. Posting from my ISP webspace.
For this, I use SnagIt, which saves sequentially and auto uploads (FTP) to my ISP webspace. I have open a text file which has a bunch of pre-scripted HTML links. Thus, when I cap, the cap is auto uploaded, so I just cut the HTML and paste in the post block, preview, and post final to FR.
2. Posting from Photobucket.com, a free image server.
I have an account. Photobucket.com doesn't support FTP. So, for this, I screencap to a special ScreenCapUpload directory on my hard drive. I then upload to the photobucket.com upload command on my account webpage. It auto creates the HTML code. I copy the code and paste it in the post block, preview, and post final to FR.
Photobucket allows 100 meg of storage, but their bandwidth use is comparatively low. Earlier this month I posted about 30 caps over a couple of days and got "bandwidth exceeded" for the remainder of the month.
If the web isn't running slow, I can usually go from cap to post in 10 to 15 sec per image.
And then comes along 'ml/nj' in reply # 76. WhatdidItellya?
I believe the game length was 2 hrs 14 min.
LOL
I wasn't aware that I'd been assigned the task of deciding what a perfect game is. Just offering an opinion. That's still allowed around here isn't it?
It's about time :-) I'd like to see them shutout on 75 pitches with 25 ground outs, Greg-Maddux style ;-)
Umpires have nothing whatsoever to do with scoring a hit or an error. The official scorer has that responsibility.
I once got a TV sportscaster I knew to make a Vince Coleman joke on the air -- it was just before July 4th, and I got him to say something about how the Mets were bringing Coleman back just for the Fourth of July. :)
My family was split in our loyalties. I was the Mets fan and inherited the Giants lore from my mother. Most of my remaining baseball cards are Mets--I even have a Marv Throneberry card from when he was with KC--and a Pumpsie Green! However, I learned to like the Yankees because of Torre as I became increasingly disgusted with Fred Wilpon and that shrine to kickbacks called Shea.
Even so, I came to like the Mets again. Then they traded their outfield for that loser bum from SF and that was it for me.
Very fickle, aren't you?! I come from a family of Yankee-haters (Brooklyn Dodger fans), so voila!, I am by default a Mets fan...
This was pretty to watch.
Totally serious. Alice and Randy are one lanky looking duo, that's for sure!
Here's one for you. My great-grandfather started the ball rolling as a Highlanders fan. My grandfather (born 1896) went back that far with them. Mom was beaned by a Gehrig foul back. The family still has the ball, signed by both Ruth, Gehrig and some others from the 1931 team. We also have one from the 1927 team. My grandfather and uncle pulled for the Yanks, as does my cousin (uncle's youngest daughter). The wimmin folk backed the Giants. Mom used to go to the Polo Grounds--when she lived in LA, went to Dodger/Giant games. The Dodgers? I think their dislike was due to the horrible teams of the 1930s.
Typical NY family from Staten Island, though the football loyalties were even more, shall we say, "livid".
Mom and her sister dreamed of playing for Notre Dame. The entire family (after they moved to Texas) were rabid, obsessive Cowboy fans.
good for Randy...
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