I don’t normally hope that the closer for my favorite baseball team won’t get a save, but this week I’m doing exactly that. I really want Mariano Rivera to get only one save (or maybe have a game rained out) in the next two games so that I can be there when he hits 300. I’ll be there Thursday night, so that’s when I want it to happen.
Three hundred saves is a lot - it takes tremendous skill, a good chunk of longevity, and no small amount of luck to hit that kind of milestone. Great pitchers are at the mercy of the teams they play with to hit milestones, since it takes years of consistency to get there. It probably won’t happen on Thursday, of course—we usually manage to miss milestones by a game on one side or the other. But when it happens, it will be well-deserved.