Teletoon Friday Night Appreciation Post

I had a very nice evening last night. Sabrina and Will and I went to see Jussy who's still in the hospital :(. But things are slowly but noticeably getting better with him, so that's good. After that we had a little adventure. Sabrina and I decided we had a craving for some nachos, and the only place I knew had good ones (Town and Country) seems to be closed, at 9:00 on a Friday, which worries me. Did the place close for good and I didn't hear about it?

Anyway, we decide instead to just go to the grocery store and pick up the few ingredients we'd need to make our own. Sadly for me the Bulk Barn was closed so I didn't get a chance to get my sack full o' smarties.

Sabrina had to check in at work to make sure some beaker didn't explode or something, and there was of course a mix-up to do with scheduling and who was expected to be there, etc. She was on the way to driving us back home when, not a minute out of the parking lot, the car ran out of gas. Will tried some of his old knowledge from driving 20 year old trucks to try and get it going enough to get to the hill and coast into the service station, but no go. I blame fuel-injection.

So we had to push it to the side of the road and figure out what to do fro there. Fortunately Sabrina was close enough to her work that she was able to go back and get the help of her roommate, and they came back with a gas can and we were soon on our way again, after a small stop so that Will could wash the gas off himself with that scary pink soap, anyway.

But since Sabrina was free for the rest of the evening after that we ended up enjoying some really good nachos (feta cheese is surprisingly good when it's melted.) and M&Ms and watching cartoons on Teletoon. This is funny because there was a thread on a message board I read that day about what great shows Teletoon has on late at night. I definitely call an evening of nachos, South Park, Futurama and The Boondocks a good night. (Boondocks is a bizarre but compellingly hilarious new show, not a lot like the comic strip but good.) I also got to sneak in a few moments of Puerto handing Cuba their asses at the WBC, I think Fidel must be ready to let his players play in the majors now to avoid future such embarrassments.

Speaking of baseball, earlier that day there was the most improbable no-hitter I'd ever seen. A conflation of two rules that MLB brought in to appease the major league teams and let them use their players before Spring Training. Each pitcher is allowed to throw a maximum of 65 pitches in a first round game. Also , if a team is ahead by 15 runs after 5 innings or 10 runs after 7 innings, the 'mercy rule' is invoked and the game is over. So this young pitcher, Shairon Martis, is taking the Panama players to school for a few innings, and suddenly the announcers clue in to the fact that he's got a no-hitter going on. (after the manager goes out to talk to him, a baseball faux-pas during a possible no-hitter.) Unfortunately if he reaches his pitch limit and has to be subbed out then the no-hitter doesn't count. However, the Netherlands had such a commanding lead that it looked like the game might be over by the 7th inning anyway. Still, 65 pitches is not a lot, and he'd have to avoid getting deep into the count to be able to last the game.

In the last inning he had just 7 pitches left to dispatch 2 batters. Unfortunately Ivanon Coffi, the 3rd baseman, fumbled a bounce and let a guy get on base. Now, I think there was a little bit of prerogative taken on the part of the official there, but that was ruled as an error, so even though there was a base runner, the no-hitter was still alive. Unfortunately the extra batter to come up meant that Martis wouldn't have enough pitches left to finish the game.

Unless.

Yep.

Double play.

God Damn I love baseball.
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