Huge kudos to Shamik for pointing this out: Check out this highlight of Ike Davis’ ridiculous gymnastics catch yesterday. I’d embed it here but I think you need to see it in high quality. I recommend full-screen, actually.
When the ball — and Davis — come flying toward the dugout, a bunch of guys scatter and a few duck away. Then, when he makes the catch, Alex Cora celebrates appropriately and Jon Niese runs over to assist Davis.
But check out the 30-second mark in the video. John Maine sits there on the bench watching the whole thing and doesn’t react even a tiny bit. Stone faced. Is John Maine deep in some sort of Zen-like baseball trance, or is he just wholly unimpressed by Davis’ spectacular grab?
Maybe Maine’s mind works about as fast as one of his fastballs?
maybe he’s depressed, and can find no joy in life
He’s just depressed because he’s been pitching so poorly.
I thought Nick Evans was the depressed one.
Wait, I realized that was actually documented and now I feel bad having written that.
Want me to delete both of these? I’d be happy to, but I think probably everyone gets what you were getting at and doesn’t realize you were actually trying to make a mean joke about Nick Evans.