Also feeling pangs of regret must be the San Francisco cab driver who drove Murphy and Kamal from the airport to their hotel. Hoping to get out of the $55 fare, they told the driver that if they caught Bonds' record home run ball, they'd give him a couple thousand dollars.
"He turned me down, man," Murphy said.
--Yahoo! Sports
I think the actual probability that Bonds would hit his record-breaking home run that night, AND that one of those guys would catch it, was a good deal less than 55 in 10,000.
"What do you do for a living?"
"I drive cabs... AND I chase inside straight draws."
Posted by Matt Bruce at August 9, 2007 02:29 PM...and that the guys would try to find him, and that given that they actually would find the cabbie...
Posted by: Nate at August 9, 2007 02:56 PM