I had to stop for a day on the drenched chroncicles to write about Mark Buehrle's next pitching outing which got exciting as well. Imagine pitching back-to-back perfect games. Well, it didn't happen, but wow, wouldn't that have been something!
To set the story, we had remained at Chopper's (bar and grill) up on Channel Lake in Antioch, Illinois, to see if Burehrle would get the perfect game despite knowing that a nasty storm was blowing in. (We were in our boat, School's Out... Forever!) Had we left in the 8th inning, we might have made it home, but we stayed. Hey, how often do you get the chance to see a perfect game?
It hadn't started raining yet, but there was plenty of lightning and thunder off in the distance and getting closer.
We, (Kevin, Kelly, Liz and myself) decided to make a run for it. We left and walked rapidly to the boat, cast off and started on our way. It started drizzling about half way to the Illinois Route 173 bridge and got steadily harder until a downpour. (At this time we decided we probably should have just stayed at Chopper's. But, too late.)
The wind also picked up as well. We ended up taking cover under the bridge until the worst had passed over about fifteen minutes later. The rain let up some, but was still coming down enough to soak us pretty well on the rest of our way home.
So, as you can see, it was all Mark Buehrle's fault we got drenched.
And, he never apologized.
Thanks A Lot, Mark. --RoadWet
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