Michael Holloway's Baseball Blogs

Writing around the idea that baseball is a game slightly ahead of its time. A 'simple' game the qualities of which include physical and metaphysical paradoxes: the two dimensional diamond with-in the sphere; the struggle between individuals with-in a complex group dynamic.
Baseball is like a school of the Socratic method: it asks questions - the consideration of which lead to more questions - a process that illuminates a path towards critical thought.

Monday, August 2, 2010

No one gets hurt in this great, "un-slide" that plates a run

Un-like the Carlos Santana, Ryan Kalish collision in Boston tonight - in this clip no one gets hurt with this great baseball slide into home...

While watching the Blue Jays knock the Yankees out of the AL lead tonight on Rogers Cable, I saw news footage of the horrible collision at Fenway Park between Cleveland Indians rookie catcher Carlos Santana and Boston Red Sox rookie Ryan Kalish.

I went looking for the video on Youtube because I love to watch other people getting hurt ... No really... I don't know why.

And luckily, I couldn't find it...

But, I did find this amazing footage of a near collision turned magic - at the 0:19 second mark, the runner rounds third...