Matchups of:
Randy Johnson v. Mark McGwire
Randy Johnson v. Jim Edmonds

I won’t know what to do if I ever see Felix v. Pujols

Jeff Sullivan is an intelligent and emotionally troubled teenager who sleepwalks, and experiences visual hallucinations possibly because of his schizophrenia (which he takes medication for), and is in the medical care of a psychiatrist. One night, a jet engine from a commercial aircraft falls into Jeff’s bedroom. He avoids death only because prior to the accident, he had obeyed a voice in his head that led him to sleepwalk outside of his room. The voice is that of Gomez, an apparently imaginary friend in a man-sized rabbit costume. At midnight on October 2, Frank prophesies to Jeff that the end of the world will occur in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds.

Later, Jeff begins seeing “silvery plastic gel” spears that flow out from people’s chests. Such a spear indicates where a person will travel in the near future. In one example, Jeff sees one spear snake into the room, followed by his younger sister skipping through the room. Another spear leads Jeff to a pistol in his parents’ closet, which he takes and keeps.

Meanwhile, Gomez instructs Jeff to perform acts which provoke certain chains of events:

• Jeff is instructed to flood his high school, which ends up giving him the opportunity to court his new classmate, Brent Lillibridge.
• Jeff is intrigued by Gomez to pursue the question of time travel, so he starts a conversation with his science teacher. The teacher gives him the book “Juiced” by Jose Canseco, an old man known as “Grandma Death” among the neighborhood youth. The book explains the scenario that Jeff is going through.
• Jeff burns down the house of a motivational speaker he ridiculed at a school assembly, thereby exposing the speaker’s secret “kiddie porn dungeon”. The speaker’s arrest begins a series of events that results in Jeff’s mother chaperoning Jeff’s younger sister and her dance group on a flight to Star Search in Los Angeles.