There are a couple of enduring images of last October's World Series. There's the Cardinals winning, of course. There's tiny little David Eckstein and his lips wrapped around a bottle of Jose Cuervo, and there's Kenny Rogers' tar stained hand. But there's also Chris Duncan butchering his attempt to play right field most of the series and constantly keeping the Tigers in games that should not have been close at all. Because of his prowess with the bat (that's an understatement... the kid's a masher) the Cards have to do something, but this Pujols guy currently has first base locked up until approximately the end of days at first base. Instead, they're just working hard on
teaching him how to play the outfield. Joe Strauss provides an unintentionally amusing checklist of things that Duncan needs to do to improve his glovework including:
Catch balls closer to the head rather than reach stiffly.
and
Alter running technique to more of a "glide" path.
I have funny pictures in my head right now but am not sure how appropriate they are. Plus it's probably funnier if you just try and guess what I'm thinking. The alternate plan is to have Chris' father and Cardinals' pitching coach Dave Duncan attempt to murder people that make fun of Chris' fielding by shooting them with laser beams from his eyeballs.
