[Husker] re: world series

[Jim Dean]

Words of wisdom from my first wife when we lived in Cincinnati:

"How can you get excited about a game where the most exciting that can
happen is nothing?"

(NOTICE: Ex-wife)

Jim Dean
Wood River High School, 1964
UNL, 1964-66, 1968-71




> From: Skylar Dodds <Sklarbodds at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Sklarbodds at cox.net
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:52:38 -0500
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [personal] Re: [Husker] White Sox World Series Champs (fwd)
> 
> Hello Mike,
> 
> Thursday, October 27, 2005, 5:32:03 PM, you wrote:
> 
> MN> But the abilty to appreciate a pitcher's duel (despite a bad TV
> production)
> MN> is what separates baseball viewers from real fans.  My mother and I once
> MN> attended a game in which one pitcher had a perfect game for six innings
> MN> and a no-hitter going into the eighth, while the other pitcher had a no
> MN> hitter through the 7th.  By the 5th inning she was bored to death and I
> MN> was on the edge of my seat for every pitch.  When the home team scored
> MN> 4 runs in the 8th, she got much more interested.
> 
> I couldn't agree more here. I played college baseball as a pitcher and
> I can honestly say, there is nothing I would rather watch then a 1-0
> game. That's baseball at it's finest if you ask me. You have
> everything from the manager's doing everything they can to manufacture
> a run, ie. bunts, squeeze, sac bunts, hit-and-runs, stepping out of
> the box, whatever they can do to get the pitcher out of his zone.
> 
> I have to agree, in the before mentioned game, I'd have no fingernails
> left.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Skylar
> mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net
>