Every Friday, without exception, is Cartoon Night at the David household. It began a couple years ago when Cartoon Network had THE premiere line-up of cartoons on Fridays. They had programs like “Ben 10” and “Symbiotic Titan” and “Young Justice” and lots of other cool programs. Over time they’ve either dumped them or relocated them to Saturday morning (although the frequently unwatchable “Clone Wars” remains), but the tradition has remained since Disney still gives us shows like “Phineas and Ferb.” And we fill in the rest of the night either with animation we recorded from earlier in the week, and the occasional offering from our DVD collection.
So last night, unaware that Johan Santana was making history, we were blissfully watching stuff off the DVR, followed by a DVD of “Waking Sleeping Beauty” about the resurgence of Disney animation.
To make up for it, I watched the “Mets Fastforward” recap show this morning and intend to watch the full rebroadcast today at noon. I’m bummed that I didn’t see it live; on the other hand, I’m superstitious enough to think that if I had, then the ump would have grown a set of eyes and that liner down the third base line would have been called fair. Personally, I’m not surprised. What ump wants to get the Jim Joyce treatment if he blows a call that goes against the pitcher in that kind of situation? If the replay shows it was a fair ball, well, the Cards had plenty of opportunities to score (including the five walks). If the replay shows it was a foul ball but he called it fair, he has to deal with angry NYC fans, which can’t be fun. So I figure if he has a shred of doubt, he’ll side with the pitcher, like a tie going to the runner. Besides, the Cards lost by eight runs, so it made no difference; I can’t begin to count the number of incredibly close games the Mets have lost because of blown calls.
So kudos to Santana for the game and the Mets fielders who made some spectacular plays.
Now if only I’d seen it.
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I remember the Kerry Wood 20-strikeout game in 1998 and the fact that I missed it because it was a day game. I’d just gotten home from school and stuff to hear about it. Thankfully, WGN replayed the game the next day. I think it was the first time I can ever recall them doing that.
But even though I knew the outcome, my heart was racing watching the replay of that game. It was perhaps the most dominate pitching performance ever in an MLB game. Yeah, I’m biased. 🙂
My wife and father-in-law were at that game. They still talk about it 14 years later…
Time with kids vs. some silly ball game. Really.
I’m really disappointed that the lack of toys attached to Sym-Bionic Titan led to its cancellation. It was one of me, and my grandsons, favorite CN series.
You know I spend too much time thinking about this blog when the first thing I thought of when I heard that Santana had thrown the no-hitter was “Man, I can’t wait to read what PAD has to say about seeing that game!”
Don’t know if this will make you feel better or worse, but after reading “unaware that Johan Santana was making history,” my first thought was “Who is Johan Santana?”
Not a baseball fan?
Nice to see that Johan still has it. It was a very dark day in Minnesota baseball (insert joke here) when they traded him away in 08′. It would be cool to see him get a world series win.
I still haven’t gotten to see the game for real (I live in Philadelphia), but the feeling of sitting in front of a laptop providing text updates as my roommates wonder what could possibly be so worried about and the joy of seeing the words “D Freese struck out swinging” crawl across my screen will never go away.
Just had to say congratulations..as a Yankee fan, I will miss being able to bust Mets fans about being o-fer 50+ years as far as throwing a no-hitter…but idf someone had to throw it, I’m glad it was someone like Johan Santana. He is one of the classiest guys in baseball and given his medical issues, and the fact they were playing the defending WS Champs – well, it was almost like a movie.