Randy Johnson's thrown 26 strike-outs so far. You're the last dude. Do you take a dive? Do you try and screw up the perfect game on the very last out? I think some of these people, especially towards the end, are probably just letting him have his day. On the other hand, I know next to nothing about sports.

Is there a bandwagon/snowball effect on the psychology of batters when a pitcher has struck out 15 or 20 people straight before you? Or is it that the forces of baseball inevitability are so great and so unyielding that any attempt to rage agsinst what is destined to be a perfect game must necessarily fail?

Neil, Shankar, Patrick: what's the farthest a perfect game or a no-hitter has gotten before being screwed up?