You guys are not going to appreciate hearing this, but what a great game baseball is. Harvey is just yet another example.
Why? Because baseball is unpredictable; baseball is humbling; and baseball is exalting. It's not just talent, as we know. It's also guts and luck.
I am saying this because just after I posted above, I hopped over to MLB.com to start up my MLB.tv for the evening and they are talking about Kerry Wood over there. 20 years ago this Sunday, in his rookie season, Wood threw that 20 strikeout, one-hit shutout of the Astros in Wrigley Field "which some have argued may be the greatest single-game pitching performance in MLB history." The highest game score in history according to
this source.
Yet Wood was another guy felled by injuries, humbled and made mediocre by baseball. What a great game. Sorry, you Mets fans. I feel your pain a bit.