Johnny Carson: "I think that's called testi-phobia"
Metaphor for NYC electing de Blasio.
The ball looks like it has a smiley face o it as it flies toward his nose.
OUCH OUCH OUCH ^5th power
Poor guy.
Watch The Slow Mo at 1 minute 10 seconds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6sEQRHMPqU0
A hockey player would’ve been back out.
He had a nose for the ball.
Owsers. There have been a number of attempts to come up with a batting helmet that protects the face better and nobody has really come up yet with something the majority of the players really like. Lots of them prefer to play without cups, too (Adrian Beltre, white courtesy telephone). And pay the price.
So, how do you score that?
So sad and he is one of the more likable Mets. When he thought he was traded away a few years back he actually cried. Good kid - sorry to see happen to anyone especially Wilmer.
Flores is a good player, but hardly a “slugger.”
This sums up their whole season just perfectly. {sigh}
Mets are coming up with more creative ways to get hurt.
Doug DeCinces of the Angels broke his nose twice by fouling balls off of home plate. Not near as bad as what Flores just took, but extremely painful to watch nonetheless.
Breaking his nose to spite his face?
Been a rough summer.
Last week a 30 year old ‘rookie’ for the Nationals squared up to bunt the ‘old fashioned way’ and the pitcher hit him around the heart with a 98er.
Guy went down like a sack of bricks and just lay there..I though I saw him twitching and the name Roy Chapman came to mind and in 1953 or so Don Zimmer ‘caught’ a curve ball in the head and was out for about 2 weeks - recovered and came back to play 12 more years
Talk about tough, the Nat got up and was still dazed and headed to first but it was ruled a strike as he had made the motion of attempting a bunt.
He went back to the plate, took a pitch then hit an RBI single between SS & 3B... stayed in game for a couple of pitches and they finally took him out.
That same day a minor leaguer caught one in the chest and they were somewhat afraid they were going to ‘lose’ him.