White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle threw the 18th perfect game in Major League history Thursday night. A perfect game is when a pitcher retires every batter he faces while pitching at least nine innings: no hits, no walks, no errors, no baserunners at all. All such games are dramatic, but this one was especially so [...]
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Driving up Mopac the other day I saw a bumper sticker, “The beatings will continue until the morale improves around here.” Typical whacky Austin humor. That’s up there with “Somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot”, which I always assumed was a jab at George W. Bush, although a (Republican) friend of mine [...]
At about 11 o’clock MDT on July 1st, the odometer on our trusty Honda van, packed to the gills with Harts, turned over 100,000 miles. We had intended to follow a longstanding tradition that was established circa 1978, when Dad pulled our 1971 Ford station wagon off the interstate somewhere in Arkansas so as to [...]