David Parrish already has learned the same thing. Sometimes when you show up at the ballpark, your legs don't feel so good. That just means that you have to put a little bit more time and effort into loosening up and getting yourself ready to play. Once the game starts, you're moving all the time, you're getting loose, everything is working. Once you get focused and working with the pitcher, everything else becomes secondary.
Most good catchers go unnoticed Virtually no one knows a catcher's record.
Most of the good catchers do goes unnoticed, from calling the right pitch to helping a struggling hurler out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth to saving the tying run in the eighth by blocking a pitch in the dirt with a runner on third. Yet I don't recall ever hearing a catcher moan about a lack of recognition for his good deeds. I've gathered that a catcher is like many other artists and thinkers who submerge their minds in their tasks. He enjoys his mental immersion, so he doesn't need the acclaim. He knows not just what happened, but what almost happened.