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Perfect game!!!!
Matt Cain -- cornerstone pitcher for the SF Giants, my favorite player of all time, and all-around great guy -- just threw the first perfect game in Giants baseball history, and only the 22nd one in Major League Baseball.... ever.
I literally cannot think of anyone more deserving.
We turned on the game in the 7th inning, and I was on the edge of my seat for the rest of the night. It was beautiful, it was brilliant, the crowd was on fire.
T had almost gotten tickets at the last minute, too, but then it didn't work out. Curses!
Still, I am thrilled just to have seen it real-time on TV. I had long expected that Cain would throw a no-hitter someday, and I feel fortunate to have even been in proximity.
I literally cannot think of anyone more deserving.
We turned on the game in the 7th inning, and I was on the edge of my seat for the rest of the night. It was beautiful, it was brilliant, the crowd was on fire.
T had almost gotten tickets at the last minute, too, but then it didn't work out. Curses!
Still, I am thrilled just to have seen it real-time on TV. I had long expected that Cain would throw a no-hitter someday, and I feel fortunate to have even been in proximity.
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I know Cain's been a steady hard worker for you guys. Good pitching is beautiful.
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Cain is not only a workhorse, he's a brilliant strikeout artist and would be the #1 guy on almost any other team. But since we have Lincecum, he ends up as #2 (although Timmy is having a truly wretched year, so Cain is really more like #1 right now). He's also been supremely unlucky, getting terrible run support throughout his career, which has keep his total win count lower than it ought to be. So when I say that no one deserved this more, I mean that quite literally. So happy for him.
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Well, congrats to him!
And, yeah, team rivalries are social constructs; good pitching performances are not. While I certainly want my team to win, I'm more able to get into the latter than the former. ;)