The trading deadline came and went and as expected, the Red Sox didn't do anything and the Yankees did everything to get more players. I scratch my head on the decisions, much as I used to do back prior to 2004 when the Yankees would do whatever they could to buy players at the deadline, and even more, this one makes no sense to me.

I understand this isn't the 1989 World Series, but it is still a damn earthquake that rattled through Petco Park last night. No one is making a big deal of it though. Sure ESPN Sportscenter tonight will do a top 10 segment for top 10 earthquakes at sporting events, which I doubt that there is even more than 3, and #1 will be the 1989 World Series, but these fans last night were treated to something special.

Jim Joyce prevented Armando Galarraga from doing something that has only been done by 20 other players in MLB and yet two other pitchers this year. But before we jump on Jim Joyce, maybe we should break it all down and at the end, thank him.

I wrote a story about bad pitchers throwing perfect games when Dallas Braden threw his a month ago. I think a perfect game is something sacred and guys like Armando should not be throwing them. It would be more of a testament of luck if 3 guys did it in one year and one of them was Galarraga. Armando has been shuffled back and forth from the minors throughout his career and this season. He has a career record of 21-18 with an ERA of 4.50. If he throws a perfect game then it is just as likely that anyone can hit the lottery….

Dallas Braden threw the 16th perfect game on Sunday, a tremendous accomplishment by an unlikely pitcher against an unlikely candidate of a team. Maybe it was all of that foul territory that enabled Braden to pitch the perfect game. Braden's career record of 18-23, needless to say, the worst record of any pitcher who threw a perfect game, or is it?