With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going past them into the impossible.
August 24, 2009 - 12:59 a.m.
Most often when I go to a Met game I don't devout that much space to writing about it. Today is going to be the exception. It is all that I'm going to write about. Even if you aren't a baseball fan, don't run away. There is something of interest here for you. I promise. Just skim till you get to it.
Chris and his brother went to today's game too and when I discovered that they was sitting in the same section that I was we arranged to meet early. It was an 1 O'clock game and we planned on meeting at 10:40. Some transit problems made me late but I was there before 11:00. We met at the Shake Shack. I haven't eaten there since early in the season. It is good but overpriced and I had a service problem. I'd normally devote the entry to that but not today. I have bigger fish to fry.
Chris is usually the friend I see the most often but we haven't seen each other much since FRFF. It was good to see him. Now on to the game.
My favorite pitcher went for the Met's today, Oliver Perez. He was bombed. The unheard of happened. He was taken out in the first inning in the middle of an at bat, by the opposing pitcher, Pedro Martinez. It is never a good thing when the opposing pitcher gets up in the first inning. He was relieved when he fell behind 3-0 on the count. By the time the top of the first was over the Mets were down 6-0 nothing. That's not the point though.
Angel Pagan, the Mets' centerfielder hit a ball that hit the base of the wall in left. It got wedged underneath the padding. By the time the fielders realized what happened and go the ball out Pagan had an inside the park home run; the first ever at CitiField. But that's not the story.
The scoring didn't stop there and the Mets entered the bottom of the ninth down 9-6. There were some errors. Pretty soon it was 9-7 with Luis Castillo on second and Daniel Murphy at first. Recently acquired Jeff Francoeur was at the plate facing Brad Lidge. The Phils regular second baseman, all-star Chase Utley wasn't playing. Instead it was his sub, Eric Bruntlett. Bruntlett made one of the errors and failed to make a play that was called a hit. He was a big part of the reason the Mets were still in the game. Met manager Jerry Manuel put the runners in motion. Bruntlett went over to cover second. Francoeur hit a line drive to center, right to where Bruntlett had just moved. He caught the ball, stepped on the bag doubling off Murphy and tagged Castillo coming into second. It took a second for us to take it in, an unassisted triple play. How rare is that? It's rarer than a perfect game. It's rarer than four homers in a game. It's been done only 14 previous time in major league history. It was only the second time that it ended the game. It was perhaps the only time it ended the game with the tying run on base. The Mets lost but I saw history. I'll never forget it. After the game people on the subway were disappointed. I told them not to be. The game was meaningless. If the Mets came back it would have been great but in the scheme of things inconsequential. Instead we had witnessed something we'll probably never see again. But that's not the story.
The papers will tell you all about the unassisted triple play. Bruntlett's name will be on everyone's lips. That's because that's what they want you to be thinking about. You won't read about this anyplace but here. Wise Madness is the only place to learn the truth they don't want you to know. I don't know how to tell you this. I think I better just show you. Good thing I had my camera.
Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. After the game CitiField was invaded by dinosaurs! I spotted an ankylosaurus, triceratops, trachodon, tyrannosaurus, and apatosaurus. There may have been more. They were afraid of panic and censored the mainstream press but they could not censor your humble diarist. The truth is out there! You deserve to know it.
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