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March 6, 2015
The future of the Toronto Blue Jays
He rummages through a half-empty cooler until he finds a dozen eggs. "I'm not sure about these," he says, removing three from the carton, studying them, smelling them and finally deciding it's safe to eat them. While the eggs cook on a portable stove, he begins the morning ritual of cleaning his van, pulling the contents of his life into the parking lot. Out comes a surfboard. Out comes a subzero sleeping bag. Out comes his only pair of jeans and his handwritten journals. A curious shopper stops to watch. "Hiya," Daniel Norris says, waving as the customer walks away into the store. Norris turns back to his eggs. "I've gotten used to people staring," he says. This is where Norris has chosen to live while he tries to win a job in the Blue Jays' rotation: in a broken-down van parked under the blue fluorescent lights of a Wal-Mart in the Florida suburbs. There, every morning, is one of baseball's top-ranked prospects, doing pull-ups and resistance exercises on abandoned grocery carts. There he is each evening, making French press coffee and organic stir-fry on his portable stove. There he is at night, wearing a spelunking headlamp to go with his unkempt beard, writing in his "thought journal" or rereading Kerouac.Top Blue Jays prospect Daniel Norris lives by his own code
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Herd pressure is very intense, he'll comply.
Posted by: ghostsniper ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://americandigest.org/sidelines/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 6, 2015 7:03 PM
Hey, he's a southpaw, what do you expect?
Posted by: chasmatic at March 6, 2015 9:32 PM
Yep, lefties are different, but southpaw pitchers are really different. I bat & throw left myself, but first base was my position. The only time I went in to pitch was when the coach wanted a runner picked off first. It's not really a balk if you just keep walking towards first, is it?
Posted by: waltj at March 7, 2015 12:50 PM
He is 21, and his future is unlimited. Clayton Kershaw is 27 and he will make $32 million Dollars this year.
Norris broke up with his high school sweet heart, which is really a shame. But, even if they don't get back together. Some other young woman will find him and make a married man out of him. Women have methods which the Spanish Inquisition could not begin to equal.
So, in a few years, he will have a wife and a multimillion dollar income. Do you think that he will still be spending Spring training in a van in back of Wal*Mart?
Get real.
Posted by: Fat Man at March 7, 2015 5:44 PM
First thing I thought of was the Spaceman, Bill Lee, also a lefty.
Posted by: browncoat at March 9, 2015 3:19 PM