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Awesome.

But I’ll settle for him climbing the wall in ways that defy the laws of physics.

Incidentally, Jack Wilson had a catch-and-throw yesterday that I think got #1 on Sports Center last night (I was in a bar and there was no audio, but that’s what it looked like). Anybody have a link for that?

But yep, Ichiro is a god.

“He has GPS,” Wakamatsu said.

Asked what the hardest part in making a catch like that, Wak said, “I wouldn’t know.”

Even Ichiro was impressed.

"I’ve never caught a ball like that before, so it will stay in my memory," Ichiro said. "If you look at the angle, usually it’s from the right or the left. But that was straight from the top. That was a tough play and was one of my impressive catches."

It required a bit of creativity.

"Once you go around from the left or the right you don’t get to that ball. When you first see it, you imagine where the ball will land," Ichiro said. "You go straight to that point where the ball will drop and then you will see it from up top."

And when did he see the ball before the catch?

"When it actually passed my head. I’ve been working on this during BP, catching backwards. That helped a lot," Ichiro said.

See it here.

was Ichiro’s perfect strike throw to the catcher at home plate.

Have to say, I nearly shit myself twice on that play. First, when he covered that much ground that quickly and then jumped up and actually caught it, and then second when he fell down into the wall and I had an “oh my God! Don’t be hurt! Don’t be hurt! Don’t be hurt!” moment.