CC Sabathia Was Awesome!!

Last night’s YANKEES/SEATTLE game was emotionally draining in more ways than one.

Our ace CC Sabathia was on the mound and he was awesome. He flirted with a perfect game through 6 innings and didn’t give up a hit until the top of the 7th. That was the only hit he gave up. he went 7 innings, giving up 1 run on 1 hit and striking out ... gasp ... 14 batters.

The 14 strikeouts was a career high. To add to the emotional drama unfolding before our eyes, the weather suddenly turned bad and there were two rain-delays, the first for 34 minutes and the second for 14 minutes. Each time the ground crew unrolled the tarp on the infield. It was really nasty.

As you know, my seat is in the open, so each time it began to rain Billi Pod scurried to find a seat under an overhang. Fortunately he found one each time.

Would CC have pitched a no-no but for the rain delays? I, of course, don’t know, but I do know that he was as sharp as I have ever seen him. The crowd was really into the game, pitch by pitch, standing and clapping. It brought back memories of being present when David Cone pitched his perfect game and Billi Pod (not known by that then) was there.

The final score was 4-1 and the game was over at 10:31. The Mariner’s struck out a total of 18 times and they have now lost 17 in a row.

This afternoon their ace King Felix Hernandez will be on the mound and he will be facing Phil Hughes, who desperately needs a good outing.

Billi Pod’s entertainment event for tonight is ...

8:00==>THE RAP GUIDE TO EVOLUTION. Well, I guess the title pretty much says it all, but this is the press blurb: “Baba Brinkman creates an entire hip hop show about evolution, combining the wit, poetry and charisma of a great rapper with the accuracy and rigor of a scientific expert.” (Off Broadway - complimentary ticket)

Yeah, I know ... Billi Pod ain’t into rap music at all, but the show has gotten excellent reviews so he thought he would give it a crack (pun intended).

I am fed-up with the fiasco in DC. This is why the average person hates politicians and why government isn’t trusted. It is politics over reason and it just makes me want to puke.

GO YANKEES AND GO GATORS!!

Billi Pod

“Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.”