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Old Mon Dec 07, 2009, 02:49pm
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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty View Post
A blink out of fear of the ball grilling you can flutter a little, and with a shutter speed of 1/1500th of a second or faster, it might have the one eye closing as quickly as a thousandth of a second sooner than the other, and the camera will still freeze it.
And it is perfectly normal to blink on pitches coming toward your face. It is not a bad thing, but a natural part of the "fight or flight" mechanism built into our nervous system.

Totally bailing out on these pitches is a whole 'nuther story!
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