Jeff Blair
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You want to talk about those?
Well, first thing I want to talk about is Springer.
Optimistically, would you rather fracture your left big toe or your right big toe if you're a right-handed hitter?
Well, I mean, him being a right-handed hitter, him felling a ball off his right toe, I mean, that would be almost impossible.
You know, I felled a ball off my left โ inside of my left quad when I played.
Yeah, it's almost impossible, right?
You've got to really be out and around.
You've really got to be swinging at things you never should be swinging at.
But, you know, again, what's the book on George?
When you get a little older, you've got to crowd them.
Like, you've got to get them in there.
George knows that.
George is cheating a little.
Well, and we saw during the postseason, teams โ
Teams threw inside.
You don't have a choice, Jeff.
You know, when you're on the back nine and the bat gets a little slower, your mind's trying to play catch up and, you know, you're trying to overcompensate somewhere and then a guy flips a sinker on you and you hit it in a bad spot.
You know, again, it just โ I literally have fouled that ball, that same ball off my toe, which would have been my right foot.
Your right toe, yeah.
A thousand times.