You may have noticed that the Arizona Fall League started earlier this week (Andrew Lambo literally just homered as I type this) with a bunch of Pirates on the Mesa Solar Sox. That includes Tony Sanchez, who’s getting his first action after having his jaw broken by a pitch earlier this summer. He’s already off to a pretty good start and he’s also keeping a blog about his experience:
Its been almost four months since I’ve played in a game with any meaning and let me tell you, four months feels like four years. Taking a 95 mph heater to the jaw is not very pleasing and having to spoon feed myself blended Chef Boyardee isn’t something I’d wish on my worst enemy. Funny story though, the pitcher from the Mets who is guilty for throwing that fastball happens to be on my AFL team, so I thought that was quite the coincidence. Needless to say, he feels awful and was very apologetic once he realized I was the guy whose face he destroyed.
Definitely something worth keeping an eye on as the fall progresses.
Quick programming note: the final installment of “18” is hopefully going to run on Monday. I’m leaving Sunday morning for a meeting in Montreal, so I’ll be out of pocket all week. I should still be able to get the requisite managerial updates and I’m scheduling stuff to run most days that I’m going to be out of town, but getting my poster and lab meeting together at the end of this week just didn’t leave me with the time I needed to get the post together.
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