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OT: Philip Humber Throws Perfect Game

Philip Humber of the White Sox just threw the 21st perfect game in MLB history vs the Seattle Mariners. Congrats to him.

Practice makes perfect. Unless you're the Buckeyes. Then you have to cheat.

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:29 PM | Hah, you barely beat me, (Score:1)
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Hah, you barely beat me, still pretty awesome.

Blank.....Blank......You're not looking at the big picture here.

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:32 PM | Haha yeah (Score:1)
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By about half a second. I'm trigger happy.

Practice makes perfect. Unless you're the Buckeyes. Then you have to cheat.

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:30 PM | The best part about this perfect game? (Score:5 Normal)
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Hawk Harrelson didn't get to call it.

I put up a tough front, but deep down I just want to be held.

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:33 PM | You mean to tell me that, "HE (Score:4 Normal)
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You mean to tell me that, "HE GONE"?

Blank.....Blank......You're not looking at the big picture here.

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:41 PM | Unfortunately not, it was a (Score:1)
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Unfortunately not, it was a Fox national broadcast today so the local announcers got the day off.

I put up a tough front, but deep down I just want to be held.

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April 21st, 2012 at 11:41 PM | Oh the irony... (Score:1)
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The world's biggest homer doesn't get to call the biggest individual player achievement of his long tenure on the South Side. Just too funny.

"... never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word."
-Bob Ufer

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April 22nd, 2012 at 9:08 AM | If I recall correctly... (Score:3 Normal)
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Hawk called Beuhrle's perfecto a few years ago

 

"The straightest line from A to B is straight: From A to B"

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April 22nd, 2012 at 3:24 PM | Yeah, realized it was a pg after. (Score:1)
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Thought It was only a no-no at the time I wrote it. Still doesnt change the fact that he must be chapped that he didn't get to call two pg's for his beloved Sox.

"... never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word."
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April 21st, 2012 at 6:31 PM | Awesome game! (Score:1)
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Congrats to Philip Humber! Go White Sox!

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:31 PM | Go White Sox (Score:2 Normal)
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Just had to.  WOO now I get to make fun of Tigers fans for a little while until they win the division!

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:35 PM | I know who I will be avoiding (Score:2)
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I know who I will be avoiding today.

USING GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS OF CAPS LOCK SINCE APRIL 2011

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:33 PM | You mean the 22nd Perfect (Score:5 Normal)
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You mean the 22nd Perfect Game.

#stillbitter

If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:37 PM | That was the best (Score:1)
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one-hitter I've ever seen!

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:39 PM | Galarraga in all honesty got (Score:5 Normal)
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Galarraga in all honesty got 28 outs that game.  So he should be credited with 1.03703 perfect games.

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April 21st, 2012 at 7:15 PM | I don't understand why the (Score:2 Normal)
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I don't understand why the MLB can't credit Galarraga for the "perfect game".  It was the ninth inning with two outs.  Just put an asterisk next to it in the history books.

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April 22nd, 2012 at 12:37 AM | Because Bud Selig is the (Score:1 Redundant)
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Because Bud Selig is the worst commissioner in all of sports, slightly worse than Gary Bettman Crosby

 

 

"All I've had today is, like, six gummy bears and some scotch"

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:35 PM | Tiger fans count this as the (Score:5 Normal)
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Tiger fans count this as the 22nd perfecto in history.

"There is no such thing as 'TMI'. The more I know, the better I can react to the situation around me." -me

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:36 PM | Now (Score:2 Normal)
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The question is do you pick him up in fantasy?

HE16MAN

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April 21st, 2012 at 7:34 PM | I think what this means (Score:1)
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is that you stream all pitchers facing Seattle in Seattle.

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:37 PM | Congrats Philip.  Boo White (Score:1 Normal)
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Congrats Philip.  Boo White Sox.

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April 21st, 2012 at 7:01 PM | How about this? (Score:2)
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I'm not an ump; however my reactions were a) I don't think he went, and b) it was close enough that I don't think that's a call the home plate ump should be making.

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April 21st, 2012 at 7:03 PM | What would have made it very (Score:2)
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What would have made it very interesting is if Pierzynski didn't get to the ball quick enough, and the runner was somehow able to make it on to first.  It's very unlikely, but not impossible.

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April 21st, 2012 at 7:36 PM | If he hadn't stopped to argue the call (Score:0 Flamebait)
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he possibly could have. I think he still would have been out but it would have been close.

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:58 PM | He did it against Seattle? (Score:5 Normal)
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Me fail English?  That's unpossible!

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April 21st, 2012 at 11:45 PM | Because of your grammar. (Score:0 Trolling)
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"... never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word."
-Bob Ufer

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:57 PM | Your point? (Score:0 Offtopic)
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Because it's not fair if a 14 year old is pitching in little league.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Almonte
 

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:55 PM | I'm sure the first thing he (Score:-1 Trolling)
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I'm sure the first thing he did was go on MGoBlog to see what people were saying about it.  Douche.

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April 21st, 2012 at 6:58 PM | GO SOX! (Score:2 Normal)
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GO SOX!

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April 21st, 2012 at 7:00 PM | M's fan (Score:5 Normal)
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I was cheering for him to get perfection, even though I am a Mariners fan.  Congrats

You can sum up this sport in two words, 'You never know.'

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April 21st, 2012 at 7:15 PM | Just dropped him from my (Score:0 Offtopic)
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Just dropped him from my fantasy squad the other day, shit.

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April 21st, 2012 at 10:36 PM | Perfect games, rain in april, pizza with red sauce, yada, yada (Score:0 Flamebait)
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That's nothing. I saw Gary Matthews Jr. hit for the natural cycle in September 2006 in Detroit in  a torrential rainstorm.

It's been done 14 times, and like 4 times in 33 years.  Perfect games are way more common. 

The critical difference is I'll bet very few people knew it was happening that night because it was a visiting player and the Tigers were in an intense pennant race at the time. I didn't learn until a few days later.

Unbelievable day for Humber. Probably baseball's greatest individual one-game accomplishment, pitcher or hitter.

 

 

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April 22nd, 2012 at 9:20 AM | uh, what? (Score:2)
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According to the ever-reliable wikipedia, hitting for the cycle has been done 293 times since the 1880s. Hitting for the cycle is more common than perfect games, but less common than no-hitters, IIRC. 

On the other hand, perfect games are starting to be much more common than they used to. About half of them have occured within the last 20 years, which is roughly one every two years. That's why they aren't as "special" as they used to be. I wonder why that is. It probably has something to do with the fact that there's almost twice as many teams (30) as there used to be (16) in the majors, but that doesn't fully explain it. 

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April 22nd, 2012 at 9:29 AM | Actually, it pretty much does (Score:2)
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Actually, it pretty much does considering that there are now almost twice the amount of games played throughout a season and now there is a dilution of talent throughout the MLB because there are more teams.

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April 22nd, 2012 at 6:37 PM | Respectfully disagree (Score:2)
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If anything, there's MORE talent in the bigs than there way years ago because the scouting system is way better so talented players don't get overlook and end up playing for some semi-pro in North Dakota. The most important source of talent, however is international players who are coming to the bigs in ever-increasing numbers. Plus, if the talent was really getting watered-down, we'd see a few good players among a sea of mediocrity. That would be reflected in a greater disparity between the elites and the normal players in, say, batting average. But if you look at it, the standard deviation of batting average has been on a pretty steady decrease since the early 1900s. Hence the argument that there's less talent isn't really substantiated.

If, then, we take the remaining issue, more games, let's again examine the numbers. When there were 16 teams each playing 154 games per year, there were 1232 games played per year. During those years (1901-1961), there were 4 perfect games, which means that there were 18,480 games played per perfect game. During the past decade, there have been 5, for a total of one perfect game per 4,860 games played. Obviously this is not a rigorous statistical analysis, and I've forgotten too much stats to actually do so, but it seems to me that despite there being more games played, the numbers would seem to indicate that it's disproportionately more frequent than it used to be. 

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April 22nd, 2012 at 9:30 AM | He was talking about the (Score:2 Normal)
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He was talking about the natural cycle.  Single, Double, Triple, Home Run.  In order.

I put up a tough front, but deep down I just want to be held.

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