QUOTE (Shore Thing @ Jun 30 2010, 03:45 PM)
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Okay. That makes sense.
So now I'm curious - are these contacts really smaller than 'normal' ones and therefore causing some interference with his peripheral vision? Or are they uncomfortable and therefore distracting to him?
I assume that if it's truly a contact lens problem that the Sox will be all over this...problem should be corrected immediately. In any case, let's hope he starts making better contact.
If you haven't worn contact lenses for a long time, I imagine they would be difficult. My time as a 10 year old wearing them for the first time involved a lot of vision problems and a lot of destroyed contacts.
Especially if they need him to get to better than good vision, the Sox are asking him to have an adjustment. Most people with glasses will have a big adjustment period without their glasses. A person new to them will have problems as well.
Tiger Woods got his eyes lasered, and he had good to great vision beforehand.
We hear about Wade Bodds and Ted Williams having great great vision. Seeing the baseball may not be good enough at "only" 20 20 vision. Those laces are small, and the ball spins fast.
We have all heard the story of Boggs complaining about the ball with a dirt spot on it... The Sox have identified a weakness, and they are willing to help him fix it, without surgery. Makes sense to me.