Comments on: The Catch Felt Around the World http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/2009/10/the-catch-felt-around-the-world/ Just another Gear Up For Sports weblog Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:52:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bryan Mcwilliam http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/2009/10/the-catch-felt-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Bryan Mcwilliam Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:51:12 +0000 http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/?p=83#comment-61 Jake - As a baseball fan who is in attendance at numerous games a year in more than one city I do understand the effect lights and the sun might have on players. I have also played in a Major League Stadium (Skydome which is now Rogers Centre here in Toronto) and numerous bright lighted stadiums during my baseball career and I've lost a ball in the lights/sun with a mask on my face (I was a catcher) on more than one occasion and I've still managed to come up with the ball. Some of those plays came at the Little League level hence my Little League comment. Use your glove as a shield against the lights and watch the ball off the crack of the bat and you'll find it almost everytime. As far as Holliday is concerned he didnt even look like he lost it in the lights, the play looked more nonchalante than anything and he screwed up, unfortunately for him he had the bad luck of having it hit him square in the sack, too bad for Holliday! Jake – As a baseball fan who is in attendance at numerous games a year in more than one city I do understand the effect lights and the sun might have on players.

I have also played in a Major League Stadium (Skydome which is now Rogers Centre here in Toronto) and numerous bright lighted stadiums during my baseball career and I’ve lost a ball in the lights/sun with a mask on my face (I was a catcher) on more than one occasion and I’ve still managed to come up with the ball.

Some of those plays came at the Little League level hence my Little League comment.

Use your glove as a shield against the lights and watch the ball off the crack of the bat and you’ll find it almost everytime.

As far as Holliday is concerned he didnt even look like he lost it in the lights, the play looked more nonchalante than anything and he screwed up, unfortunately for him he had the bad luck of having it hit him square in the sack, too bad for Holliday!

]]> By: David http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/2009/10/the-catch-felt-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-60 David Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:39:48 +0000 http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/?p=83#comment-60 Ummm... Jake I hate to break this to you, but these guys are paid mad dollars to make that catch regardless if there are lights, towels and the ball are white. He choked at the wrong time and to make matters worse the ball hit him in the sack. I didn't hear Holliday make excuses, so you shouldn't either. Ummm… Jake I hate to break this to you, but these guys are paid mad dollars to make that catch regardless if there are lights, towels and the ball are white. He choked at the wrong time and to make matters worse the ball hit him in the sack. I didn’t hear Holliday make excuses, so you shouldn’t either.

]]> By: Jake http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/2009/10/the-catch-felt-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Jake Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:27:06 +0000 http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/?p=83#comment-59 guys shut up about little leagers making that catch u must have never been to a mlb game lights are real bright plus white towels so mlb lights+white towels+white ball=playoff last out=droped ball guys shut up about little leagers making that catch u must have never been to a mlb game lights are real bright plus white towels so mlb lights+white towels+white ball=playoff last out=droped ball

]]> By: Bryan Mcwilliam http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/2009/10/the-catch-felt-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Bryan Mcwilliam Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:28:43 +0000 http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/?p=83#comment-19 Last year it was Holliday's face first slide into home plate. This year he gets nutted on a fly ball I've seen Little Leaguers make. I wonder if Holliday is trying to build up a library of blooper plays so he can sell a DVD collection of the series when he retires. Last year it was Holliday’s face first slide into home plate.

This year he gets nutted on a fly ball I’ve seen Little Leaguers make.

I wonder if Holliday is trying to build up a library of blooper plays so he can sell a DVD collection of the series when he retires.

]]> By: Humorless http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/2009/10/the-catch-felt-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Humorless Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:23:27 +0000 http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/?p=83#comment-15 I was in the car listening to the ninth so I didn't actually get to see that one live, but when I heard Scully announce it on the radio I burst out laughing and thought this is our chance to turn this one around. I'm just glad Loney hustled on that fly ball and made it all the way to second base. I was in the car listening to the ninth so I didn’t actually get to see that one live, but when I heard Scully announce it on the radio I burst out laughing and thought this is our chance to turn this one around. I’m just glad Loney hustled on that fly ball and made it all the way to second base.

]]> By: David http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/2009/10/the-catch-felt-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-14 David Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:49:54 +0000 http://mlbplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com/blog/?p=83#comment-14 That play will probably be remembered like Bill Buckner getting 5 holed. That play will probably be remembered like Bill Buckner getting 5 holed.

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