Here is a video of the Jake Fox home run from Sunday's game. This is a cool perspective from...

Here is a video of the Jake Fox home run from Sunday's game. This is a cool perspective from Waveland Avenue. The ballhawk filming the video actually makes the catch. Pretty neat to see how it all transpires out there.

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Very cool.

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by digitalbenjamin on Jul 8, 2009 1:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Double Rec'd.

That is freakin’ awesome. Is that Ballhawk Ken who comes in at the very end? I’ll be interested to read his comments on this vid. Great job.

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by dat cubfan daver on Jul 8, 2009 1:35 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

+1 Interested to hear Ballhawk Ken's comments.

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by jkobus on Jul 9, 2009 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Me too.

Going by his picture on Twitter, that might be him at the very end of the clip. Not sure.

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by dat cubfan daver on Jul 9, 2009 10:40 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Actually, you can see me in the beginning of the video

standing in the crosswalk wearing red shirt. I was playing Fox more towards straightaway left instead of dead pull.

Ballhawk Dave has taken the old adage “use two hands” to a new level by filming his catches. It’ll be interesting to see what the next generation of technology will do for ballhawks…

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by ballhawk on Jul 9, 2009 4:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ah, OK.

I’ll have to watch it again. One hell of a cool video – I can definitely get a sense of why you do what you do.

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by dat cubfan daver on Jul 9, 2009 4:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That is pretty cool and pretty ridiculous (in a good way).

Good stuff.

by Gurbal on Jul 8, 2009 6:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Rec'd also.

Extremely cool. In a couple of the shots you can see our group in the back corner of the LF bleachers (all the way at the end).

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al on Jul 8, 2009 6:13 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

so awesome

by spain2323 on Jul 9, 2009 10:20 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

If anyone has played Mirrors Edge

Right before he makes the catch is the exact same feeling as playing that game.

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by jkobus on Jul 9, 2009 11:23 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I really want to like this

but all the weird sideways angles make me feel ill.

Still, rec’d. Those of you with good vision may like it. :-)

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. -George Halas

by Allie on Jul 9, 2009 5:13 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

It's like "Major League" crossed with "The Blair Witch Project".

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by dat cubfan daver on Jul 9, 2009 5:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

also known as movies allie hasn't seen

:-P

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by Allie on Jul 9, 2009 5:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, if that ballhawk video bothered you...

…Blair Witch would probably drive you crazy. It was filmed entirely with handheld cameras. It’s pretty scary, too. The last half at least.

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by dat cubfan daver on Jul 9, 2009 5:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Blair Witch I can understand not seeing

I purposely didn’t. I realized that just isn’t my kind of movie.

But Major League? That should be added to the list of movies I am surprised Allie has never seen. :)

by Madison Cub Fan on Jul 10, 2009 10:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I brought that movie into Religious Ed once Why?

I needed to pose a question to my pastor, my teacher, and the other kids in class: Is Pedro Cerrano right? Jesus can’t hit a curveball?

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by TkGoUWGB on Jul 11, 2009 9:21 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So what was the answer?

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al on Jul 11, 2009 10:13 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know

I was sent home. To me, I thought it was one of those ultimate life questions in which our very existence is based on. To them, it was being an idiot and making fun of Jesus. Looking back, the right stance on the situation is that the question is somewhere in the middle.

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by TkGoUWGB on Jul 12, 2009 11:03 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow

So what happens if two or more ballhawks play a certain player to the same area….does one get mad at the other? is it whoever gets to the spot first? is there some kind of ballhawk etiquette? We need to get a ballhawk wikipedia going, this stuff is interesting!

Also love the blue glove. I had one as a kid.

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by tony412 on Jul 10, 2009 8:39 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh and absolutely awesome video

On TV you obviously only see an overhead view. We don’t see that view usually unless its the playoffs. We will probably never see that view catch the ball ever again.

"You just don't know understand how frustrating this is"- Kevin Borseth

by TkGoUWGB on Jul 11, 2009 9:22 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I felt like I was watching Cloverfield there for a second

but thats amazing….and why did that kid smell the ball?

Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.

by bren on Jul 13, 2009 9:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I thought that was weird, too.

Hey, dream it, live it…I guess.

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by dat cubfan daver on Jul 13, 2009 10:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs