Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game

We love reminders of just how old we really are. Newsweek informed us that it has been 10 years since "Seinfeld" went off the hair air, which is just jaw-dropping, when you think about it. But that's nothing like Friends Of The Program's revelation: It has been 10 years since Kerry Wood's 20-strikeout game against the Astros.

We were already out of college by then — as we said, we're quite old — but we, like everybody within shouting distance of a television, sat rapt while watching perhaps the greatest pitching performance ever. We can't imagine anyone ever improving on that. Twenty strikeouts? One (questionable) hit? No walks? Come on.

Even as a Cardinals fan, we find it a shame what happened to Wood; at this time, after this game, he seemed like Roger Clemens reborn, ornery, inflamed, terrifying. If the Cubs ever do make a World Series, it would seem fitting that Wood might be the guy to close out and send them there. Like that will ever happen of course.

Here's the highlight video, complete with old-school ESPN graphics: