I've been reading about perfect games and how baseball works, and now I think I understand a cartoon that I saw about 30 years ago but didn't understand at the time. A young man and young woman arrive at a baseball game late. The scoreboard is almost full, with perhaps an inning and a half to go. All the posted scores are zero. The young woman says haughtily to the distraught young man, "See, I told you we weren't missing anything."
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