What's with all the perfect games?

[SandraC]

Ok, so forgetting the rhetoric of whether last night was an actual perfect game or not for the sake of this thread,...what the heck is going on? Something that happened like 18 times in 130 years is now happening twice a week? After it also happened last month? Huh???

Roy Halladay was obviously a perfect game waiting to happen, which you have to factor into the equation, but still, this is getting a little nutty. Have to assume it's just an aberration, and maybe we won't see another perfect game for a decade or two...or maybe we'll hear around midnight tonight that Carl Pavano is taking a perfect game into the eighth against the Mariners...at this point neither would surprise me.

Looks like the steroids policy is working!


Sandra

 

[Ira Lacher]

Perfect games are mixtures of good pitching and a lot of luck. While you have to have the stuff to keep batters from hitting the ball well, there's no way to chalk this phenomenon up to anything but a pure fluke.

Having said that, pitching is up and hitting is down throughout baseball. So either there's a rash of good arms out there or a whole bunch of players are off the juice. Or both. (BTW pitchers were juiced too.)

 

[Paul Wozniak]

I think you guys have hit it in the nose. Now lets raise the mound, expand the strike zone back to the rules, and get back to real baseball.

 

[SandraC]

I think you guys have hit it in the nose. Now lets raise the mound, expand the strike zone back to the rules, and get back to real baseball.

...and we'll go back to all day games, so that the stands are always half-empty!


Sandra

 

[yaz96]

...and we'll go back to all day games, so that the stands are always half-empty!


Sandra

Maybe not that, but how about REAL double headers where you only pay one price!


ON topic - Less juice, and better pitching, as everyone else is saying.

 

[Ramy]

It has to be that all the steroid freaks are unable to lift the bat anymore without thier steroids.

 

[salsadancer7]

Perfect games are mixtures of good pitching and a lot of luck. While you have to have the stuff to keep batters from hitting the ball well, there's no way to chalk this phenomenon up to anything but a pure fluke.

there it is in a nutshell.....and ALOT of bad teams and so-so teams that are nothing but smoke and mirrors.....