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The Dugout: A Perfect Game

Jul 23, 2009 – 11:30 PM
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B. Thompson Stroud

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This morning, White Sox pitcher Mark Buerhle drank sangria in the park. He fed animals in the zoo, then later, a movie too, and then home. Just a perfect day. And he finished it with a single pitch. Do they give peabody awards for sports blog intros? They should, because the next line is going to be presented by itself, so that you know it is more important.

A perfect game.

The 18th in the history of Major League Baseball.

Tonight's perfectly reasonable approach to a Dugout about these events is after the jump.

The Dugout

WordUpThome: SO THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU ANYMORE
WordUpThome: YOU SLID A SLIDER TO JOHN OLERUD IN THE SIXTH, AND YOU FELT A POP, AND THOUGHT "OH NO I ROUGHT TOO FAR AND BANGED MY GRABBERS ON JOHN'S EXPOSKELETON"
WordUpThome: WHICH'D BE TRUE, ON ACCOUNT OF HOW RUDY WEARS SO MUCH ARMOR AT THE PLATE YOU COULD TOSS HIM OFF THE SEARS TOWER AN ALL IT'D DO IS BUST UP YOUR PAVEDMENT
WordUpThome: HE WAS STRUCKEN OUT, BUT YOU TORE YOUR LABRUM, WHICH YOU SAY IS PART OF YOUR SHOULDER, AND NOT WHAT SCIENTISTS DRINK
WordUpThome: YOU REHABBED FOR TWO YEARS, AND FOR WHAT
WordUpThome: A 75 MILES TRAVELED-PER-HOUR FASTBALL, A BELOW AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL CURVED BALL, AND A CHANGE-IT-UP WHAT LOOKED LIKE GRANMAW BOLWING
WordUpThome: WOW I NEVER KNEW THAT TEARING YOUR LABRUM COULD MAKE YOU PITCH LIKE JOSE LIMA
WordUpThome: YOU COULD NOT MAKE IT BACK TO THE BIGS, AND THAT IS WHAT CAUSED YOU TO START JUICING
margarine: parkay
WordUpThome: PEER PRESSURE CAN BE HARD, I STARTED JUICING BECAUSE JACK LALANNE'S DRINKS LOOKED SO DELICIOUS
WordUpThome: YOU BEGAN TO TAKE HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE, PRESUMABLY FROM A WINDOW SILL WHERE THE LADY OF THE HOME HAD PLACED IT TO COOL
margarine: parkay
WordUpThome: YOU KNEW THAT TAKING HGH WAS EVEN RISKIER THAN EATING AN ENTIRE TUB OF BUTTER SUBSTITUTE
WordUpThome: SO YOU ONLY TOOK A FEW INJECTIONS, AND THEY HELPED YOU TO FEEL BETTER, BUT YOU STOPPED
WordUpThome: ETHICALLY DO YOU FEEL YOU MADE THE RIGHT DECISION
margarine: parkay
WordUpThome: MY NAME ISN'T EXTREME AKEEM SO I AM IN NO PLACE TO JUDGE YOU
margarine: parkay

WordUpThome: THE DRUG THAT YOU TOOK AND PUT INTO YOURSELF WAS NOT BANNED BY BASEBALL, MERELY "FROWNED UPON"


BUD SELIG FROWNED AND RESTED HIS SWEET HEAD UPON A BED OF HGH BOTTLES

WordUpThome: YOU TOOK THE DRUGS, BUT YOU STOPPED QUICKLY. YOU STOPPED FOR YOUR FAMILY, BUT TAKING MORE DRUGS WOULD'VE GOTTEN YOU BACK INTO THE BIG LEAGUES, WHERE YOU COULD'VE HELPED YOUR FAMILY EVEN MORE
WordUpThome: YOU COUNSEL TROUBLING YOUTHS ABOUT DRUGS, EVEN THOUGH YOU BARELY DID THEM
WordUpThome: YOU ADMITTED TO USING, BUT ONLY WHEN MITCHELL'S REPORT CAME OUT
WordUpThome: YOU FESSED IT UP TO THE CHICAGO SOME TIMES, BUT YEARS LATER, WHEN YOUR CHANCES WERE ALL GONE
margarine: parkay
WordUpThome: ARE YOU TRULY A GREAT MAN IF YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW IT WITH "I GUESS?" /removes hat, wipes brow
WordUpThome: IT MAKES PHILOSOPHICAL JIM HIT CONTEMPLATIVE DINGERS, THAT IS FOR SURE
margarine: parkay
WordUpThome: WE ARE ALL REPLACEABLE COGS IN A MODULAR MACHINE -- THIS IS A BASIC CONSEQUENT OF HOBBES
WordUpThome: IS THERE A REASONABLE PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO THINKS THAT ETHICS AND LEGALITY ARE COEXTENSIVE, EITHER TERMINOLOGICALLY OR IN PRACTICE
WordUpThome: DO YOU THINK THIS IS SOME PROFOUND DIVINATION, CAN YOU CONCISELY SUMMARIZE WHAT THE HECK YOU DID WITH YOUR LIFE
margarine: parkay
WordUpThome: AHHHH WHAT IS THE MIND
**Online Host**
YerMainGuy has entered the chatroom.
WordUpThome: HEY JI
WordUpThome: JIM, IT'S GUYS
YerMainGuy: Mark Buehrle is pitching a perfect game, you should get out here and watch this.
WordUpThome: I CAN'T RIGHT NOW, I AM HAVING AN EXCHANGE OF TOUGH GUY PHILOSOPHICAL RIGHT AND WRONG WITH FORMER PITCHER JIM PARQUE
YerMainGuy: You aren't talking to Jim Parque, you're reading what he wrote in the newspaper
WordUpThome: THAT EXPLAINS WHY I WAS TALKING TO JOHN ARBUCKLE THIS AFTERNOON
YerMainGuy: and that isn't Jim Parque, that is an empty tub of margarine, because apparently you have been eating breakfast for the last 12 hours
margarine: /sits emptily on table
WordUpThome: HE TELLS ME THAT MR. AND MRS. COUNTRY CROCK HAD A BABY, WERE YOU AWARE
YerMainGuy: I don't know who those people are.
YerMainGuy: Gah, whatever, you should come out and watch this, it only happens like, nine to fifteen times in a lifetime
WordUpThome: BUT I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS LEFT TO ASK
YerMainGuy: to the margarine
WordUpThome: .... POSSIBLY
YerMainGuy: uhhh, all right, but make it quick, after the game we're going to have a pizza party and Ozzie's going to slur and possibly attack us
WordUpThome: OKAY CATCH YOU LATER BILL AND TED /returns to paper
**Online Host**
YerMainGuy has left the chatroom.
WordUpThome: HOW DID THE BOSTON CELTICS PLAY BASKETBALL WITH YOU ALL OVER THEIR FLOOR
margarine: parkay
WordUpThome: I CANNOT BELIVE THAT THIS PRODUCT IS NOT BUTTER
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