Good that your all got your complaints and questions in, so now I can completely ignore them. (OMG HEEL)
Holy crap do the Arizona Cardinals have ugly uniforms. I’m totally lost in my train of thought now. Salisbury’s facial hair is crazy as well.
As a result of being forgetful and “Exchange Unused Tickets Night (2 of 3)”, I had a couple seats to tonight’s epic Kane County Cougar/Beloit Snappers pennant race showdown, my second game this week. (Maybe I’ll scan my box score from Friday?) I was going to bring a camera and shoot pictures to entertain myself due to lack of conversation, but the person I would’ve borrowed it from wasn’t around. I was gonna ‘score the game, but I neglected to grab my template from the printer before I left, and they weren’t selling scorecards for some reason. No big deal, because at least I wasn’t stuck choosing between taking a bathroom break and missing a couple batters on my scorecard, which seemed like a dumb debate when the games have been kinda noteworthy lately.
Which means, of course, the game went into the 9th inning with a no-hitter. Even though it would’ve been a neat to have a physical record of being there, I’m not dumb enough to be picky how I get a no hitter, since I’ll be lucky to ever be there for one.
It wasn’t to be tonight; Starter Joe Scott struggled mightily early with control and upped his pitch count, so they were forced to take him out after 7 no hit innings. Trent Peterson went 1-2-3 in the 8th and got the first in the 9th, but Deacon Burns got a bloop hit to RF, and David Winfree got a legit line drive single to rub it in. It was still pretty neat to see those double zeros (Beloit gave up 2 errors, so it was 0 0 2 on the board) for as long as they lasted.
It was weird, because it didn’t feel intense like a no-hitter and I didn’t realize it was actually going on till the 6th becuase he was so off early, but then the bottom of the 7th went on forever, building the anticpation. It’s minor league ball and a family/group outing audience, so there were a lot of people off the 5000 who came who left early even before it got out of hand, either not realizing or not caring, and I’m used to it enough by now that I’m not surprised by it any more. Those that did stick around were into it in the 9th, and gave the team a “sorry you lost your no-hitter but you’re still awesome” ovation after the hit.
It being Dog Night and Clapper Night wasn’t nearly as annoying as I thought it might be. People making me get up every two minutes so they could leave the aisle and come right back did make up for it, however.
Win moves KCC to a tie for the last playoff spot, with a couple weeks ago. They’re only back in town for one more 4 game homestand, I’ve got tickets to the series opener and the season ender; hopefully at least some of my late season tickets will pan out as meaningful.
Taking Wednesday off to go to the Cubs day game against the Braves. Mike Hampton vs Mark Prior should be pretty fun.