Kevin D. St. Clergy

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1,074 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Aug

Kevin D. St. Clergy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Not because anyone suspected a vision problem, but because my mom had scheduled a routine checkup.

It was one of those fluke appointments that didn't seem important at the time.

The eye doctor's words changed everything.

Sorry, kid, you're practically blind without glasses.

Suddenly, it all made sense.

Those swings and misses, the frustration, the self-doubting, they weren't because I wasn't good enough.

The truth was, I literally couldn't see the ball.

No one.

Not my dad, my coaches, or even I had thought of considering something as simple as eyesight being the problem with my poor baseball performance.

Looking back, it wasn't about pointing fingers or assigning blame.

It was about realizing we are all so focused on the wrong thing that we miss the real issue entirely.

I never realized I had poor vision because it didn't seem to affect me in daily life or at school.

I was a straight-A student who always sat in the front of the classroom, so I never had trouble seeing the chalkboard.

I thought everything was normal, but once I got glasses, everything changed.

I still remember the first time I put them on.

I looked at the chalkboard and thought, wow, the writing is so clear now.

It was like a light bulb went off in my brain.

But the moment that stuck with me most was when I saw leaves on the trees for the first time.

They weren't just green blobs like I'd always seen, but individual leaves, each full of detail and texture.

The world came alive in a way I didn't even know I had been missing.

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