I do think there have been cases where stars on the verge of setting world records have had the opposition kind of fold, especially when said opposition was already behind and had no chance of catching up. I'd vague this up a bit more, but I'm afraid that is as specific as my memory gets right now.

Well, my bathtub drain has moved from "slow" to "blocked" as in it's been about 36 hours since it was last waterfree. Landlord's handyman not coming round 'til Monday. It's going to be 87 degrees tomorrow.

This is NO FUN.

Last night we saw "Not the Messiah!(He's a very naughty boy)" at Wolftrap.

Cool! Eric Idle and all? I was in two performances of that last week.

Y'all, my friend Collin wins at the internets today.

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Weekend plans include pie tonight, brunch with folks and Cousin John from Texas, band practice for our show in VEGAS next week. Sat. night Dirtbombs! Sunday getting nails did. Hope some kind of exercise and cooking of healthy food and relaxing.

I was originally thinking of that awesome women's softball team that carried the opposing injured player around the bases, though.

Oh, the college team. I remember reading about that. In looking through the Way Back machine I came across this interesting stat with respect to Walter Johnson:

His earned run average of 1.14 in 1913 was the fourth lowest ever at the time he recorded it; it remains the sixth-lowest today. It could have been lower if not for one of manager Clark Griffith's traditions. For the last game of the season, Griffith often treated the fans to a farce game. Johnson actually played center field that game until he was brought in to pitch. He allowed two hits before he was taken out of the game. The next pitcher - who was actually a career catcher - allowed both runners to score. The official scorekeeper ignored the game, but later, Johnson was charged with those two runs, raising his ERA from 1.09 to 1.14.

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juliana, I don't remember too many specifics, but this kind of fits your scenario.

Some years ago (1970s?), two South American soccer teams were playing a World Cup qualifier. One team could advance to the next round if it won by some riduculous margin (maybe 5 or 6 goals), and the other team wasn't affected by the outcome. The team got its margin of victory, and collusion was argued.

Unfortunately, I can't Google anything about that game. But "soccer" and "collusion" will give you a couple other examples where that type of scenario has been argued.

I just went to the vending machine, and noticed that one of my nickels wasn't a nickel, but rather a 0.20 Swiss Franc coin. At current exchange rates, this represents nearly a 400% windfall!

Favre took a sack for...someone or other to break a record a few years back. People (I.e.) me and most folks I know are still a little pissy about that. (Also re Favre - how has his wife not killed him yet? This is crazy.)