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Turn on Hahn ? Behind his wife's back ? ..... Sorry

Thanks guess we still don't know the real story.

I can't even find your reference abut Tim telling him not to wear glasses. Do you have a link to where I can find anything about that ? I tried goggling and get nothing.

That's why I said w/e works.Hell laser eye surgery is out of the scary stage now .. Just wondering if he ever wore anything to correct his vision before or if there is even a vision problem.

I had kept wondering if that was the case when somone brought it up months ago but thought no way in hell if his eyesight was bad do the Sox not tell him to wear glasses or contacts or goggles or w/e works. Common sense would tell you that at the highest level of sports your eyesight is likely your best friend. Despite being a hitting genius Ted Williams had better than 20/20 vision. Thats what really made him able to do what he did. Was he wearing glasses yesterday ?

Beautiful game. Tim dynamic tonight flying all around the bases. Some Earl Weaver specials aka 3 run HR's. Abreu doing his 2nd half thing and Nicky the D with 5 big RIB's.

Caught it better ? It was a fastball around a foot away from where he set up . Reaction time on that prevents a catcher from doing anything but lunging for the ball. Moving along now...

Still going with this I see even though several posters called you out about that pitch and how it wasn't on Narvaez It was mostly on the ump and even Rodon for missing his spot. In no way shape or form should Narvaez be blamed. That pitch couldn't even have been framed.

Palka

Have you contacted the negro league museum ? I think your film would be a great addition to what ss2k5 posted above, the la vida baseball exhibit. Also seems perfect for PBS . And as far as exposure goes have your tried a Wayne's World approach like public access TV ?

Exactly. Some posters just jump on the Narvaez can't frame bandwagon and blame him for every non strike call on a strike. I've seen umps miss calls like that many many times when a pitcher misses his spot and the catcher has to lunge to catch it.

I hope you were actually watching the game and not just watching game day. Any nitwit could just blame the catcher for that without actually using his eyes to see what happened. As i have said many times when talking about pitch framing you cannot frame a pitch that you are lunging for and many strike calls are missed when a catcher has to move from where he set up to where the pitch actually ends up. In this case Narvaez was set up inside and the pitch ended up on the outer half and a bit above the belt. ( not right down the middle but also not on the outer edge . The ball was all clearly in the zone. Narvaez had to do a quick lunge across the plate caught it of course in the zone but lunging causes momentum and his glove after he caught it continued out of the zone. It is nuts to blame the catcher on that.

Hey I don't make this stuff up . Ok yeah the birthday stuff I did. But seriously in todays game that's what they said about his uncle just paying the guy for the ball.

Turns out his uncle didn't catch it. Just paid the guy who had it .

Good job !

You earned a trophy though !

You didn't click the link I provided ?

Not only that it was his birthday too !

Hey some cluster luck . 3 hits in a row equaling 2 runs.

Now would be a good time for Avi to stop slumping.

Eloy RBI single with 2 outs.

I was fine with what you said as it was more about a movie character than anything else. I'm just reminding people of how really good he is. Before he even signed with the Sox he was called "the best player on the planet, and that's no exaggeration." by a scout.

I know I was being crazy with my comparisons but hell dream big if you are going to dream at all. The kid has tremendous speed and power. He has elite bat speed. He is a great defender and base stealer.Between all the time he lost waiting to come here and the injuries he lost a lot of development time. I think he'd already be tearing up AA if he hadn't. If he can manage to stay healthy for a full season we will get to see someone who will spark our imaginations and when paired with Eloy could reach great heights with the Sox.

Great to hear Burdi talking about feeling good and seeing him progressing. Next year should be fun/very interesting with Eloy , Kopech and Burdi all with the Sox by May if everything goes just right. We/I kind of forget Burdi was already near ML ready before he got hurt.

It's called ceiling for a reason. If it makes you happy I'll throw Clemente in there.