Comments on: Pedro Gomez Nearly Missed It

By: allonthefield

allonthefield — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:02:17 +0000

Had never seen that video before now. Amazing. Granted, they are nine and ten year-olds he’s juking out of their socks, but the kid has moves. Hope he doesn’t blow out a knee or get messed up in drugs.

By: jay The Most Hated

jay The Most Hated — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:26:49 +0000

You’re welcome.

By: s1rweeze

s1rweeze — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:13:03 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, jay

By: jay The Most Hated

jay The Most Hated — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:49:14 +0000

Another meaningless post…

By: Cousins of Ron Mexico

Cousins of Ron Mexico — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:52:28 +0000

I was at an Expos game a long time ago with my family and my father took my brother to the bathroom and missed what was like the 7th Triple Play in Expos history. Does that count?

By: 7thpostman

7thpostman — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:18:05 +0000

Didn’t a SportsNight character miss Bobby Thomson’s homer because he was in the can?

By: RomanWarHelmet

RomanWarHelmet — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:52:31 +0000

NDub…it was poorly written…but apparently he was taking off on the next day for a whole week because his wife was going out of town for work. So he was going home to watch the kids. So thats how he almost missed it…I was expecting to hear that he was dropping a deuce or something and got back to the press box in time which would have made for the better story.

By: Mike B

Mike B — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:51:00 +0000

The headline embellishes the point a bit. It makes it sound like PG went to the bathroom and made it back just in time to see it.

What really happened was that, had the homerun been hit the next day, he wouldn’t have been there:

“No matter what happened, Gomez was flying home to Phoenix on Wednesday morning for a week off to take care of his three children while his wife traveled for work.

“I’m glad it worked out the way it did, because in a selfish, perverse way, I had invested so much time into this that I’d be disappointed if I didn’t see the payoff,” Gomez said Thursday.”

By: ScottVanPeltStyle

ScottVanPeltStyle — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:27:00 +0000

ESPN deserves an asterisk for hanging PG out to dry like that.

By: NDub

NDub — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:21:22 +0000

Maybe I’m just a moron.

But I don’t see anywhere in that story where it says he nearly missed 756. The title of the dailybreeze.com story says that he nearly missed it. I didn’t read it anywhere.

It was an interesting piece, yes, but nothing about the near miss.

Did I totally read over it?