>Once again, the Doc shows what class really means.

It takes guts to retire when you no longer have it rather than dragging it out. He also paid for a full-page ad here thanking the fans and the city. I assume he did something similar up there?

And fwiw, the most exciting ballgame I ever attended was his no-hitter in game 1 on the NLDS. I was looking for something else earlier in the week (before he announced) and ran across some messages I wrote at the time. Among them that instead of being nervous in the final innings, we just considered completion of the no-hitter inevitable.

Tamar