Before using his rifle as a club and dying at the Battle of the Alamo, which we as a society go to great lengths to remember, Davy Crockett gained something of a reputation for, among other things, allegedly being able to stick an axe into a tree trunk and fire a bullet at the edge of the axe with such precision that he could split the bullet in two. This, from a guy who literally moved to Texas in order to avoid the impending presidency of someone with whom he disagreed, Martin Van Buren.
Wednesday night, in front of a similarly disdainful crowd in Flushing, Madison Bumgarner performed the baseball equivalent in pitching yet another complete game shutout in a do-or-die playoff game, this time against the New York Mets.