Last Night In Florida...

Most of us know that Anibal Sanchez threw the first no-hitter in major league baseball in nearly two years. What many of you don't know is the reason why and the Ivy Chat connection.

See, last night, one Geniene Miller sang the National Anthem in the pre-game ceremonies. Mrs. Miller used to live in Chicago and used to work with the writer of this little exercise in meaninglessness. Prior to her time in Chicago, she used to gallivant around Los Angeles with the woman who would become The Wife.

Figuring that this writer would be unable to find a suitable spouse in Chicago, Mrs. Miller arranged to have a prospect flown in from LA. Twelve years and three Murtons later, Mrs. Miller found herself singing to a sparse Marlin crowd. Her singing was the only hit of the night, at least for those of Diamondback persuasion.

I'm sure there are a few nasty jokes one could make at this time about how her singing must have had some numbing effect on Sr. Sanchez's cochlea and allowed him to concentrate better on the batters. But that would be a cruel thing to say about the person who married me off.

Instead, we'll close with a gratuitous shot of Mrs. Miller and the women she was going to introduce me to if the first fix up didn't take.