The ride I short and pleasant. As an added treat renown knuckleballer, Tim Wakefield, is on the mound for the Sox tonight. He's older than I am, throws a 75 mile/hr fastball and is only a few wins away from two major milestones.
The first is 200 career wins, the second is 193 wins as a Red Sox player. That would surpass two pitchers you may have heard of, Cy Young and Roger Clemens. Not bad for a failed minor league first baseman.
The knuckle ball is mystical, no one really knows where it's going. That's why he can get away a fastball with such low speed. He only became a pitcher after a minor league coach said he would have no shot at the majors with as a position player.
A former bullpen catcher with Red Sox described catching Wakefield as, "Trying to catch a butterfly with chop sticks."
Another rough summer day.
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