Picked up a few innings of the ESPN Radio broadcast of that game last night. At one point Vlad was up against Tim Wakefield and Gary Thorne was right in the middle of saying “In the Dominican Republic where Vladimir grew up they were too poor for bats and balls so they would play with sticks and rolled up socks. The socks would flutter so when these guys face the knuckle ball …” – EXACTLY there, he switched into his home run call. Vladdy had crushed a knuckleball in mid-sentence.

If they included that in a movie, you’d say naaaaahhhhhh