Yesterday found surf fans, around the world, tuned into the Natural Selection Surf finals day in Micronesia. While day one served up many scary freight train barrels over razor sharp reef, the ender delivered more high performance fare. Australia’s Soli Bailey met Mexico’s Al Cleland Jr. in the last frame and put on a dazzling show that found Bailey, 30, as winner of the inaugural event.
You can watch, in its entirety, here, and might be surprised to know that baseball scouts are joining in, eyes all a’ google.
For at the end of the show, you see, the two finalists made their way over to Martin Daly’s floating kingdom becoming showered with praise and celebratory cans of joy whilst sitting on sleds. Bailey asked for one more and someone on the boat threw a screaming two-seamer right at his head.
With neither duck nor dodge, the handsome regular foot caught the missile, eliciting oohs and ahhs from all aboard and baseball scouts worldwide.
The average baseball salary near $5,000,000 in 2025 it must be noted.
Which leads to the important question: if you could be preternaturally skilled at one sport, what would it be?
David Lee Scales and I, anyhow, discussed “The Catch” during our weekly chat alongside an important back-and-forth on the etiquette surrounding zipping up an un-zipped fly in public.
You’d be remiss to not hear.
Essential.
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