Red Eyes and Home Runs

You have to be able to see the ball to hit the ball. I have bad eyes and wear contacts now. When i was young i wore glasses and when i switched to contacts i was able to see the ball so much better. I could pick up the spin and see things that i could not see before. If the MaxSight contacts help you will see more players at all levels use start to use them. $20 for a pair of contacts is not a bad price. And they are made by a trusted company like Bausch & Lomb, i would not mind trying a pair out.

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Being the high maintenance parent that I am...I sent this on to my sons college coach and demanded that the university buy my son a pair!



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I played against Pacific University in Portland where the testing on these contact have been conducted over the past 5 years. They are very effective in bringing out the red seams on a baseball. It's a good product.

FYI...if you are playing against a team using the contacts, just rub up the baseballs darker than normal. It takes away much of the advantage.

My eye dr. did testing with major leaguers for Nike and Bausch & Lomb at Wrigley Field. According to him, the guys were saying they could see the individual ivy leaves from home plate. They come in prescription and nonprescription lenses, as well.

I thought they were supposed to bring out the red seams....how would they improve vision to the wall? Hawthorne effect?

These contacts are wierd looking. I live in Nike territory, have many friends who work for the company. One of my son's football teammates was wearing these contacts the other day (his dad designs and tests products for Nike.)

They really do look weird. Very devilish. I can't vouch for how they perform. But they made my son's teammate's eyes look possessed....not a bad idea when looking across the line at your opponent on a football field!

I read an interview with Roberts were he said that he has only worn these contacts for a few games this season.

I don't know if all the hype is just marketing or if Roberts was mis-quoted.

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The tinted contacts, which give Mr. Roberts a devilish red-eyed appearance,

I picked some up for Halloween.

Can this be considered a "performance enhancer" ?

TRhit: That's a good question.

Orlando: I was quizzical about the 'Hawthorne Effect'you refered to and with a little research I discovered that this effect was discovered through research at Western Electric's Hawthone Works in Cicero,IL. This facility no longer exists and coincidently was located only three miles from where I'm sitting and typing this!

Concerning these new contact lenses ,which part of the 'Hawthorne Effect' is relevant? My quick study of this effect turned up some research involving work place lighting. Is this what you were refering to?

Gotwood --- "Hawthorne Effect" has been used as a catch-all term for the positive effect on a person's performance by any change or attention to the workplace. The study found that whatever they did to the worker's environment, (for example, lights brighter, then lights dimmer) productivity was improved, and concluded that it wasn't the action, but the attention that spurred people on.

CCKnight's post reported that the players said they could pick out individual leaves on the OF wall at Wrigley. I thought the colored lenses were to enhance the red seams on the incoming ball, and couldn't understand why they would result in improved overall sight. Perhaps telling them that the red lenses were suposed to make them 'see better' led them to believe that they could see everything better whether it was impacted by the lenses or not.

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Originally posted by observer44:
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Being the high maintenance parent that I am...I sent this on to my sons college coach and demanded that the university buy my son a pair!



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Well why not, scholarship students get free eyewhere!

Orlando: Thanks for the info. With your knowledge and wisdom I can understand why you're the 'old timer' and I'm still just a 'member'!!!

Alrighty, I'm no eye dr., just going by what mine told me. He was doing research for both companies, and as of a month ago was the only dr. on the south side of Chicago able to sell them (which has probably changed already), so I'm trusting that he knows what's going on. What he told me is that the tint in the lenses does something to the light that the eye senses. Stuff about cones and rods and how they receive the light that is coming into the eye. I guess there is a lot of light that the eye picks up that could be considered "noise". The tint in the lenses reduces this light, allowing the eyes to pick up more detail in objects that they're focusing on, hence being able to pick up the seams on a ball better. They don't improve vision like a prescription lens, but improve the detail in what is seen (if that makes any sense). He also told me that not everybody who tried them liked them, so you might want to see if you can try them before you buy them. Sorry about the vagueness of my previous post.