I remember July 23, 2009,very well. We were out with our friends Kevin and Kelly in our boat that day and cruising the Chain O' Lakes here in northeastern Illinois. And, it was a perfect day in the morning and part way through the afternoon, but we had warnings of a major storm hitting the area around mid-afternoon.
We were all the way up in the upper lakes and we decided to stop at one more place called Chopper's on Channel Lake in Antioch before heading home before the storm hit. We were going to have just a drink and be on our way.
The White Sox game was on and I was kind of watching it until I saw a stat that here in the 7th inning, the Sox pitcher, Mark Buehrle, had not given up a hit. Even better than that, no Tampa Bay batter had reached base. In other words, A PERFECT GAME!!
Well, a perfect game is just something I had to see, especially since the one I was at back in 1983 where the Tiger pitcher, Milt Wilcox, had a perfect game until Jerry Hairston pinch hit a single with two outs in the 9th to blow my chance of being in attendance at a perfect game. (To see their pictures and read about this game, go to my Down Da Road I Go blog. By the way, even though I am a Sox fan, I was pulling all the way for Wilcox.)
Well, we would just have to stay and watch. Storm or no storm.
Tomorrow. --Cooter
By the way, congratulations to Mr. White Sox, Minnie Minoso, who was indcted into baseball's Hall of Fame today. It's about time.
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