"Safeco."
While admirable, there's no way this feat is as a perfect game. Jenkins gets hours of rest between innings, whereas starters who throw a perfect game have only the time between innings.
Already have my ticket. Plus it's bobblehead night!!
I fixed "SafeCo." Cute little Chicago fan...
There's still another glaring homonym typo in that post that our Ph.D blogger should have caught. ;-)
i betcha i could get to first base with bobby jenks.
@ 1: If this feat is not as a big a deal as a perfect game, why hasn't it been done before, while there have been 17 perfect games thrown? Getting the batter out is always a challenge, regardless of whether you get four days rest or four minutes.
@3, Thanks for fixing the Co, Amy Kate
But @ 4, I don't see another homonym typo. Who's? That's not "whose," it's a contraction for "who is," and is, I think, correct.
My favorite spellcheck typos in recent student work: the Beat Generation being largely "queen" instead of "queer"; and a character who need to "qualm" her fears.
I see the typo...
Y'all ready for football season? Keep lettin the Mariners tease you into thinkin they are good.
Fuck that fatboy.
Also, he tied the record against us. You mean the ChiSox haven't used him in a week?
Pitching a perfect game in 3 hours is more impressive than pitching 13 perfect innings in 4 weeks. No one is saying it's not impressive, but it hasn't been done before because it's an endless streak where as a perfect game does end.
Also how long have we had relivers and closers going regularly in baseball? 30 years? Not the same as 110 years.
Also, would you say that George Sherrill is better than Johan Santana cause Sherrill's ERA is lower? He's also only given up 1 ER in 17 IP at Safeco Field this year! Johan gave up 3 Er's in 7IP! He sucks!
Yes, it's impressive, I look forward to watching him pitch and the pressure would be incredible. But it's not as impressive as a perfect game.
@6: The fact that this record is more obscure and less common than a perfect game doesn't make it less impressive.
I would argue that it's more of a challenge to get a batter out if you've been pitching for 1-2 hours already. Endurance isn't something that should be discounted here.
It's not just the physical aspect either: individual batters get to face a pitcher more times during a perfect game (or would-be perfect game). This gives them more of an opportunity to figure out the pitcher's game plan.
By contrast, Jenks faces three individual batters once a game. By the time he pitches again, the Sox may not even be playing the same team. From a strategic standpoint, he has the upper hand each time he enters a game.
I don't mean to belittle Jenks' accomplishment, but I don't think it's comparable to a perfect game.
Sorry, meant MORE impressive.
@6 - Let's just say that the slog could use a more affective proofreader.
Bring on Ichiro!!
It didn't impress us when he came in against the weakest part of our order at a point in the game when the M's could have cared less.
PS: "positively affected" not "effected"
As the resident English MA, I shall proceed to attempt to defend "effected":
"Postively affected" would mean to affect in a positive direction. Clearly that is true, but as a closer one is also bringing about a desired result, ie, the score at the end of the game; therefore...
"Positively effected" I take to mean "brought about in a single swoop," with "positively" as an intensifier, like "totally" or "completely."
I have the power to edit the Slog, but I'm not gonna, unless someone persuades me that this (rather creative) interpretation is false.
Sincerely, with kisses for robespierre (but not maurice),
Annie
annie- He clearly meant the first definition, and not your second, rather tortured one.
robespierre - it's "couldn't care less" not "could care less".
@17: Feeble! Try again. No recourse to intentionality.
@16,17: note we are non-severable. you love us or leave us as a unit. and the real enemy here is not bad grammar, but bobby jenks. who (forgive me) jinxed his shot when he doffed his cap at tying, rather than surpassing, the record.
@19, know your enema.
we are very familiar with our enemas-- coffee and cigarettes, specifically. what has this to do with baseball?
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