(CBS Sports) Braves' general manager Frank Wren has confirmed to multiple Internet sources (the majority via Twitter thus far) that minor-league coach Luis Salazar has lost his left eye. On March 9, Salazar was struck in the eye by a line-drive foul ball off the bat of catcher Brian McCann in the first inning of an exhibition game against the Cardinals. He was standing in the dugout watching the at-bat.
I'm sure there was no pun intended here, but this is pretty fucked up. My boy Luis here gets a frozen rope in the eye ball and less than a week later he's being featured in the CBS Sports, "Eye on Baseball" segment. I mean guy is already missing an eye - why kick him when he is down ? Might as well kill his dog or put bleach in his coffee when he's not looking (shouldn't be a problem anymore).
Although this is no laughing matter, this dude could gain some real street cred with the one eye look. He could wear the eye patch like the chick from TLC - that would be pretty legit. He could even demand a job in Pittsburgh and just go with the pirate coach routine - that would be the coolest thing in baseball probably.
Signing off - just need to cross the t's and dot the.... lowercase j's.
(Thanks to K-Ron for the link)
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