How that feel: you watch in wonder. You watch and wonder. What's it like to get hit in the eye with a puck? Almost throw a perfect game (twice)? Be a long snapper?

We're here to show you, to bring you to your senses. Read this, our second annual "How's that feel?" package, and see, hear, taste and smell the sports experience through those who've lived to tell these tales.

... to just miss a perfecto?

By Mike Mussina Yankees pitcher

There are lots of different emotions. It's one moment in the game. I guess it's like losing a shutout, or even losing a close game on one pitch. You think, "If I had thrown something else, would it have changed it?" But you throw 100-some pitches in a game. Everything goes right. Do you sit there and second-guess yourself on one pitch? Eventually you just let it go.

I don't remember much of anything in both games until the last inning. In the first one, I remember Sandy got a hit to left. I struck out the next two guys. The one in Boston, Clay Bellinger made a diving play at first for the first out. The second out I don't remember. Then Everett got the hit. The third out was a ground ball to second. But everything else went so smoothly. I picked the pitch. I threw the pitch. It worked out. I didn't log it in as something worth remembering.

Probably the second one was more disappointing, having been there once before, then getting to two outs and two strikes. That was more frustrating. But after a little while, you realize how difficult it was to even be in that position in the first place.

The one in Baltimore, after the sixth inning, the crowd started to get into it a little bit. After the seventh inning, they were absolutely into it. In Boston, ironically, when I went to the mound in the ninth, I thought the place was buzzing quite a bit. But we didn't score until the top of the ninth. It was 0-0 in Fenway. After we had scored, the perfect game was still there and all this excitement started going on in the crowd.