Happy 5th Anniversary Of The Impossible Happening With Bartolo Colon's Shot Heard Round The World
I'm not a big anniversary blog guy, but when it's an anniversary of the greatest moment in the history of baseball if not sports, exceptions can be made. Especially if it's an anniversary that's a factor of 5 since those always hit different for some reason.
In fact, May 7th should just be known as Bartolo Colon Day so we don't have to be reminded it happened based on the hundreds of tweets that start in the morning. Everything about that moment was perfect. The call, the fact it was a no doubter in a pitcher's park, The 7 Line being there to celebrate it live. Baseball perfection.
The Spanish broadcast was just as great as you would expect it would be:
HASTA LA VISTA, BABY!!!
The Big Sexy Big Fly instantly being immortalized in The Natural was internet art:
The Topps card was just good old fashioned art art:
Even the advanced stats were numerical art:
I remember when Bartolo signed with the Mets and everyone immediately got excited about the entertainment that would come out of watching his at bats and boy did he not disappoint.
However, he started to make some solid contact, we would hear stories about how Bart could actually swing the stick in BP, and occasionally got an unreal athletic moment from the big fella.
It got to the point where Mets fans were almost expecting a Bartolo Colon home run because it was so preposterous it seemed like destiny. Every at bat we would tune in, hold our breath, and wait for Bartolo to go YABO. It was just a matter of who the sorry son of a bitch would be to give it up, with James Shields being the sacrificial lamb and him knowing instantly he would be haunted by this moment forever.
No offense to the #SonsOfUribe, but trading ANYBODY for James Shields after he gave up that bomb was crazy. But giving up Fernando Tatis Jr. for Shields was downright criminal. #FireReinsdorf
P.S. I forgot how cute Jake looked with his long hair. I love that we can actually tell if deGrom was a really good if not super underrated pitcher or the best pitcher in the entire sport based simply on how long his flow was.