Perfection!

In the most recent championship series of my nineteenth-century baseball league, Haymakers starter Mickey Welch flirted with a perfect game. Welch retired the first 21 batters he faced before allowing a walk and a hit and then leaving with a series-ending injury. Yikes! Things unraveled pretty quickly. 

The perfect game is indeed a rare and special occurrence. It's true that the unassisted triple play is even rarer -- only 15 in major-league history! -- but it's more the result of being in the right place at the right time. The perfecto, on the other hand, is a grueling, full-game gauntlet where the pitcher and his fielders must be absolutely locked in and, yes, get some good luck along the way. In the long history of the major leagues (which I date back to 1871, but others prefer 1876), there had been only 23 perfect games.

Now make it 24.

Huge congrats to Domingo German of my beloved New York Yankees for twirling the fourth perfecto in team history!

Done!

For better or for worse, I finished painting all the 3D buildings that I printed out last year. It's a big milestone that gets us closer to the massive zombie apocalypse campaign that I've planned for Amy and the boys. It will be our first-ever all-3D campaign, with three fully-fleshed-out locations (a sleepy town in upstate New York, a military base, and a survivalist compound) and enough random odds and ends to create ad hoc wilderness settings as well. I'll share photos here on the blog as the players encounter each of the major locations. 

And now that Matthew and I have repaired our 3D printer, we can actually print more buildings. But that would be crazy, right...?

Free RPG Day

It's Free RPG Day! Enjoy some free gaming goodies!

Better Late Than Never

Back in the day, there was a recurring gag that Barry Allen, the second (and most famous) Flash, was chronically late. The Flash solo flick is arriving so long after it was announced that many DC fans thought it would never make it to the screen. Nonetheless, I have high hopes for this one...

Owlbear...Beard Oil?

Well, owlbears are my second-favorite D&D monster (right after hook horrors), so maybe I need to start growing a goatee again so that I have a reason to partake of this wondrous product.

Cup Champs!

Our team won the Cup last night! Huge congrats to the Vegas Golden Knights on their first Stanley Cup championship, and the first-ever major-league sporting title for our adopted home state of Nevada! I'm so glad that I got to share this experience with my family. (Even Amy was a little bit excited.) My boys aren't old enough to remember the last time one of our teams won a championship (hint: Eli Manning was involved), but they will definitely remember this one!

A (Sort Of) Dream Final

Hey, in addition to fantasy historical hockey, there's also real NHL hockey! My boys and I are pretty stoked for this year's Stanley Cup Final, which pits our beloved Vegas Golden Knights against the plucky Florida Panthers. Neither team has ever won a Cup, and both are competing for professional sports' greatest trophy for the second time in their respective histories. 

The last time the Panthers made it this far, way back in 1996, I was a hard-core fan. Scott "Rat Trick" Mellanby, the Beezer, JovoCop -- I mean, come on! That was a fun team to root for! I've followed the Panthers on and off in the years since, and although other teams (including the once-hated Islanders and Devils) have moved higher up my list of favorites, I'm still something of a Panthers fan at heart. My true dream match-up for the Final would have been the Knights against my all-time favorite team, the New York Rangers, but I'll take what I can get!