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Post by Jason Giambi on May 17, 2010 10:09:19 GMT -5
On this date, May 17, 1998 my daughter Megan was Christened.... and David Wells pitched a perfect game vs. the Twinkies.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 17, 2010 10:48:00 GMT -5
Ah, that perfect game....I was there. I should pull out the scorecard. I was there and almost left the game as it was starting, as it was freakin' BEANIE BABY DAY, and I was hung over, and it was loud and annoying. The kids were causing a ruckus. Funny thing is there WERE people who left the game early, after collecting their Beanie Babies.
Good day all around, with a happy family memory for you to boot, though you missed the game live!
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Post by 4dogg on May 17, 2010 10:53:50 GMT -5
i was there also...my daughter was 9 and wanted to leave early,and when i tried to explain to her how rare a perfect game was,she answered with"so ,this could happen any game?"....luckily we stayed...and im still in possession of the beanie baby and the collectors card which came with it
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Post by Jason Giambi on May 17, 2010 12:15:20 GMT -5
Yeah, my timing has never been good. I had the opportunity to go to Yogi Berra day the next year, when a buddy of mine had his friends back out on tickets. I missed it because I had to work. The guy I caddied for lost his match, and I missed the perfecto.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 17, 2010 12:40:25 GMT -5
Your timing was not as bad as that of Walkman John, who missed one game the entire season of the Cone perfecto.....and that was the Cone perfecto.
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Post by jwmcc on May 17, 2010 13:20:10 GMT -5
Wrong.
I missed one Sunday game in a four season span, and that one was the WELLS perfect game.
I was at the Cone Perfect game.
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Post by heartybooooo on May 17, 2010 13:46:22 GMT -5
If memory serves, your brother was being ordained a priest. That was mean of God.
I missed the Wells game, but Lindsay was there. At the Cone perfecto, there was a group of four people who left after the 7th inning. We were all beside ourselves and I thought Larry was going to explode.
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Post by jwmcc on May 17, 2010 14:16:46 GMT -5
close it was my first cousin celebrating his 25th anniversary of his being ordained a priest.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 17, 2010 14:18:19 GMT -5
I managed to not only not be in attendance for Gooden, Wells and Cone--I missed them on TV as well.
I was channel surfing with Gooden, saw the Yanks were up 2-0, did NOT notice the zero in the hit column, and missed it.
I went to see the movie Deep Impact when Wells pitched his--missed the game. Went the day before though!
I was on a bus riding home from a road trip while Cone was pitching his perfecto--missed the whole game.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 17, 2010 15:21:17 GMT -5
close it was my first cousin celebrating his 25th anniversary of his being ordained a priest.
Hate to alert you to this, but the going story out there is you missed the game cause you were at the opera. No joke.
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