“As long as I can see the baseball, I don’t care what they call me.”
The AJC recently published a really nice piece on Mac’s new “approach” to the game while wearing glasses. Most of the story we’ve heard about, but it’s really good to know that Mac is getting along so well with the small change of wearing glasses on and off the field. Apparently, he’s having to wear the sports glasses on the field and regular glasses off the field.
As someone who’s worn glasses/contacts since the 5th grade, and probably needed them even before then, I can totally relate to his eye problems. Only about a year ago after relying completely on contacts (ones I could wear for thirty days and could sleep in, mind you) for three years, I started wearing glasses full-time again because of frustration with the contacts. The absolute pain of taking them out and putting them back in, plus all the irritation and dryness from allergies and sinuses, in which I tend to have a lot of both year-round, is enough to make you just want to wear glasses full-time for the rest of your life and not worry about it.
Saturday, as he sat in the Braves clubhouse, McCann took off his glasses, closed his better eye — the right one — and said he could not clearly make out the numbers on a digital clock 30 feet away.
“I close my left eye and see everything crystal clear [out of his right]. I close my right eye and can’t read the scoreboard [from the dugout]. Can’t distinguish between a 2 and an 8, a 3 and a 9,” he said.
I’m the exact opposite; my worst eye is my right eye, my better is my left eye. But not only was his outlook on everything being effected, he apparently was beginning to wonder if he would ever get back to normal during the eye escapade that he went through for two-to-three weeks.
“I was more concerned with him mentally,” McCann’s father said. “He was miserable. Hitters have got to hit. And he’s always been a hitter. When he doesn’t hit, he’s not happy. And when he’s not contributing to the team, he’s not happy.”
It’s good to see him come back from the DL to being the old Mac. If wearing glasses pretty much 24/7, except when catching, is what it takes to have him in the lineup and to get the old Mac back, then so be it.
“He’s back to just being Brian,” said McCann’s father, Howie.
