Comments on: A Perfect Game, Made Imperfect

By: Paul Horn

Paul Horn — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:01:42 +0000

Please don’t let any such revelations darken my cherished memories of Sandy Koufax and his great triumphs with the Dodgers. He was my hero as as a pre-teen and beyond….

By: Rich Frantz

Rich Frantz — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:27:11 +0000

Growing up in NY as 10 year old Brooklyn Dodger fan, I always recall this day as one of the bleakest, most humiliating days for my team, surpassed only by the Pedro melt-down in 2003. This is no way diminishes Don Larson’s accompishment, however, it’s another reminder of Yankee arrogance and domination – only back then in NY, the Yankee fan was the kid next door!

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:58:32 +0000

It figures. Remember Chuck Knoblauch’s phantom tags in the 1999 ALCS (which the umps confessed were bad calls after the fact)? Remember how Rodger Clemens was inexplicably not ejected from the game after throwing a bat at Mike Piazza? It makes one wonder how many championships this “storied franchise” would really have if they didn’t have the umpires help, not to mention all the PED’s.

By: tamoroso

tamoroso — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:31:43 +0000

Seriously? No. A child’s illusions must, in the fullness of time, be replaced with the hopefully truer sight of an adult. I don’t think my parents are infallible anymore (not that that feeling lasted very long), nor my teachers, nor that perfection is, in any way, achievable by mortal men or women. Perfection is an aspiration, not a goal. In its pursuit, we can, on occasion, become more than we once were, and having stretched that bit, we never quite relax into the shape we once had. But “perfect”, as a description of any human achievement, is one I reject. And when it is found that an achievement once so described is, in fact, imperfect, I want to know.