On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:35 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
Aaron, if we get to meet, please remind me of what you just wrote. I should be very interested to see you work.
As Frank and Dave "too bald" Chang-Sang can tell you, I behave oddly when people are watching me take pictures.
If you're somewhere that you get MLB baseball on TV (I'm thinking that you're not, but I could be wrong), watch for the Toronto Blue Jays, then look for the scruffy looking guy in the camera bay shooting Pentax. I'm not at every game, but if you ask me a week ahead I can tell you what games I'll be at.
Then you can watch me work on TV! Apparently I had a close-up last year when the announcers were talking about "photo day" (a promo where you show up early to the game and get your picture taken with a camera). Sadly, no one was recording it so I didn't get to see how foolish I looked.
I do have a recording of nearly being nailed in the head by a foul ball -- I was focused on the batter and wasn't paying attention to where the ball had gone. It went way up in the air and was coming down right at my head. When I finally realized where it was going, I froze like a deer in the headlights. Luckily for me, this gigantic shadow that belonged to John Olerud (who was playing for the Yankees at the time -- must've been 2004) suddenly appeared between the ball and me. He caught the ball and saved my skull.
Watching the tape, I react much too slowly. Olerud clearly already has the ball in his hands, and suddenly I duck behind the protective wall, bailing out of the way (aha! On topic!) like a drunk.
-Aaron
