{"id":1654,"date":"2009-07-24T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2009-07-25T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T17:00:26","slug":"perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfection!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do Mark Buehrle and Pete Rose have in common?<\/p>\n<p>They both <em>threw<\/em> the perfect game&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Too soon?<\/p>\n<p>The temperature was 75 degrees, and sunny in Chicago. For those of you living in a cave, Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle threw a perfect game yesterday!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/buehrule-perfect-game.jpg\" alt=\"buehrule-perfect-game.jpg\" height=\"181\" width=\"271\" \/>(Meh, it&#8217;s <em>OK<\/em>, I guess)<\/p>\n<p>Only 17 other players in the history of baseball have done that. It was something I&#8217;ve never seen in my lifetime, and will mostly likely never see again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/mark-hurls.jpg\" alt=\"mark-hurls.jpg\" height=\"362\" width=\"269\" \/>(He likea to throw the balls)<\/p>\n<p>A perfect game in baseball is a lot like getting an amicable break-up in dating. One side&#8217;s always bitter, or both are, or one&#8217;s passive aggressive so they won&#8217;t give you back your Florida State sweatshirt that you love because they&#8217;re a lying, thieving, evil bitch. Julie, I&#8217;m looking in your direction. But that&#8217;s not the point&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wise-catch.jpg\" alt=\"wise-catch.jpg\" height=\"348\" width=\"270\" \/>(Re-diggity-god-damn-diculous!)<\/p>\n<p>The <em>play<\/em> that made it possible was Dywane Wise&#8217;s catch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it, you should&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=By_WxVN0gzQ\">Click me<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With everything at stake, it&#8217;s the best regular season catch I&#8217;ve ever seen in baseball. Screw it Buehrle doesn&#8217;t owe Wise a watch, or a car, he owes him a house&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boners&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friendly reminder to wear bigger pants, or stern warning not to dance so close?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/slwo-dancing-sowrd-fight.jpg\" alt=\"slwo-dancing-sowrd-fight.jpg\" height=\"204\" width=\"271\" \/>(Slow dance sword fight!)<\/p>\n<p>I choose the 1st one. Boners happen. Sometimes in the morning, sometimes at night, sometimes because the wind just blows the right direction. A mystery for sure, but they happen, and when they do, you best be ready or have a back up plan&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/baggy-pants.jpg\" alt=\"baggy-pants.jpg\" height=\"203\" width=\"270\" \/>(Recommended for function not fashion)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be the kid with a &#8220;jeans boner&#8221;&#8230;I was the kid with &#8220;jeans boner&#8221;. It looked like a had a stiff left leg chasing after my date on the dance floor. Don&#8217;t be me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Mark Buehrle and Pete Rose have in common? They both threw the perfect game&#8230; Too soon? The temperature was 75 degrees, and sunny in Chicago. For those of you living in a cave, Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle threw a perfect game yesterday! (Meh, it&#8217;s OK, I guess) Only 17 other players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}