Mark Buerhle Throws No Hitter by Pretending He's Pitching for the Cardinals

In what was certain to cause Zuch to have a sudden and powerful "no-touch orgasm" last night (that's right, that's the image I want in your head for the rest of the day), Mark Buerhle threw a no-no for the Sox against the Rangers, the only blemish a walk to Sammy Sosa that he later erased by picking Sosa off of first base.

There isn't really much to say about this, but what the hell, I needed to make that Zuch/orgasm joke and since I put my two weeks notice in at work, it's slow goin's.

One thing, though -- Doesn't Buerhle seem like the absolute prototype of a pitcher that would throw a no hitter? I mean, he's not all that spectacular overall, but he's just one of those guys with the kind of above-average strikeout stuff that it seems like this isn't much of a huge surprise. To me (and I believe Vinnie agrees on this), no hitters are kind of inherently overblown by the fact that 9 times out of 10 the guys that throw one (emphasis one and not guys like Nolan Ryan) are the guys with pretty much only above average stuff that get some breaks one night and everything seems to fall into place. Look at the kid that threw one last year, Anibal Sanchez from the Marlins - though he's still young and could probably go on to have a great career, at this point he just looks like a pretty decent pitcher with a good K/9IP rate. It's kind of a microchosm (there's no way I spelled that right) for the concept of small sample size in baseball, much like the guys that hit for the cycle (Chad Moeller!).

No real point to this post, just thought I'd get that out there. What do the rest of you think?

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