Buehrle's 9th

[mrjohnchimpo]

ah cha cha cha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOi0Nky8gs0


http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/mlb/images/news/buehrle_nohitter/hdr_595.jpg


video here is the compilation of each out:

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070419&content_id=1918216&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cws

[False Alarm]

:cheers: burls

[JVO]

Something they have been talking about on the radio is the amount of luck involved in pitching a no hitter.

What do yous think? Luck, Skill or what kind of combination of the two?

I am going with 65% skill/35% luck

[False Alarm]

man why we always talkin luck JVO? :D

i dunno how i'd break it down. suffice it to say that to have a lineup full of major leaguers see your stuff three times each in one night and not hit safely takes an enormous amount of skill and an insane amount of luck.

that said, buehrle's got a 1-hitter where he took a perfect game into the 8th against the indians and at least another couple 1- or 2-hitters. motherfucker's good.

(his price just went through the roof.)

[False Alarm]

great story about buehrle and cotts. i love this guy.

No glitter: Drive showed Cotts essence of Buehrle

April 20, 2007

ATLANTA -- Watching the highlights and talking about White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle's no-hitter brought back Neal Cotts' favorite story about his old friend and teammate.

The Cubs reliever was in his rookie year with the Sox in 2004, heading home to southern Illinois for the All-Star break, and Buehrle, who lives near St. Louis, rode most of the way with him.

Buehrle's fiancee was supposed to meet them where the highways diverged in the directions of their homes, but she wasn't there when they got to the meeting point.

''I was like, 'I'll drive you,''' Cotts said Thursday. ''He was like, 'No, no. I'll just stay here.'

''I'm like, 'Dude, we're in the middle of nowhere.' There's nothing. A gas station and nothing around it. Nothing else -- no city, nothing.''

But Buehrle, already a former All-Star who would win 16 games that year, insisted. He handed Cotts a couple of beers off his freshly purchased six-pack and said, ''Go.''

''So I'm pulling out of there,'' Cotts said, ''and there he goes with his White Sox gear and everything that he had from the ballpark. And he's sitting there on the corner, just sitting on the curb, right in the middle of nowhere, with a beer.''

That might make Buehrle the most regular-guy All-Star ever to pitch a no-hitter.

''I got home and told my buddies, 'I just left a guy that's worth millions and millions of dollars, an ace on a major-league baseball staff, sitting on a curb waiting for his fiancee,''' Cotts said. ''And he made me leave. He wouldn't let me stay. It just kind of describes him.''

Gordon Wittenmyer

[andikay]

Buehrle's on my other fantasy baseball team and I'm still losing this week.

[hotfoot]

great story about buehrle and cotts. i love this guy.

good story.