So When There's a Zero In the Other Team's Hit Column...

A no-hitter, how frickin' sweet! And to think, I was back home in Ypsilanti for a week, but came back out to Wisconsin just yesterday....I was remarking to my brother how it was too bad I had to go back just before the Brew Crew came to Detroit.

I was busy today, so I couldn't watch the game, even though with the Tigers playing the Brewers, I did have the opportunity. I was running to this store and that, and listening to bits of the game on the radio, and in the third inning of the game, the Brewers announcer whose name isn't Bob Uecker, whose name I haven't really figured out even though I've listened to a fair bit of Milwaukee baseball over the past 4 years out here, well, he said something along the lines of, (and I'm totally paraphrasing here, it seemed like a throwaway line at the time)

'Verlander has the kind of stuff that makes you keep an eye on the hit line until it moves off zero.'

I wasn't paying too close attention to what he was saying, because just afterwards, Billy Hall got on base, and I thought he'd got there via a hit. An hour and change later, I'm in Best Buy and I get a call from a friend, saying, "it's gonna be a long and happy marriage!" and I didn't know what he was talking about, other than the Tigers must have won.

Reason I knew that was because this guy was the emcee at my brother's wedding reception on Saturday, and when the Mets had come back from 8-3 to make it 8-7, he was predicting dire things, and talking stuff about how the success of my brother's marriage depended on the outcome of the game....of course, the Tigers held on, and we all celebrated the close call, and drank a toast to the suddenly assured long and happy marriage that my brother would now enjoy.

I guess Verlander just put an exclamation point on that thought....so on behalf of Soumya and Swagata Mukhopadhyay of Dearborn, and to cap a nice long rambly post, thank you, Justin.