Perfection

Today was one of those days, a special and unique day.  Especially if you enjoy baseball.  Today Felix Hernandez of the Mariners threw a perfect game, 27 batters retired without reaching base.  A magnificent performance.  I was lucky enough to be at today's game with Cicely and the boy.  We now can say what only about 575,000 can ever have said, "I saw a perfect game."  There have been only 23 such games in the 150+ years of professional baseball.  Since the founding of the National League in 1876, there have been approximately 400,000 games played.  So this is a very rare thing to see.  I remember going to a game with Cicely some years back and saying, you know you just never know what you will see at the old ball yard.  That night we saw the Mariner's finest pitcher, Freddy Garcia lit up for eight runs in less that three innings  Not quite what I was hoping for, when I made the statement.  Today's game wasn't exactly the way we would have liked it, it was hot and the boy was hot and a bit bored and wanted to play more than watch.  So what if we didn't sit in our seats for the whole thing.  We saw the important bits and years from now, the pitches and at bats we did not see will not matter, what will matter is that we were there.