Josh Hamilton, a career .237 hitter with a .720 OPS in day games and a .335 hitter with a .980 OPS in night games, is continuing his quest to figure out why that huge discrepancy exists. The answers continue to lead him to his blue eyes -- dreamy to some, but apparently haunting when it comes to seeing the ball in bright light. Via ESPN:

Hamilton, who has 20-15 vision, unsuccessfully tried colored contact lenses to combat his dramatic dropoff in production during day games. It has been a mysterious problem that he now at least feels as though he understands.

The All-Star outfielder has been told that blue eyes allow more light into the cornea, making seeing the baseball more difficult in daylight. He expounded on that theory Thursday morning.

"I've got a good explanation for it. This is as clear as I can make it," Hamilton said. "We play at nighttime, sweat -- blue eyes, obviously, are harder anyway -- but playing at nighttime, you sweat a lot, you wipe your eyes, sweat gets on your cornea and dries overnight. Then, you come out midday the next day and instead of the light going straight through your cornea, it hits the dry sweat and disperses and makes everything brighter."

That's where the drops and eyelid scrubs come in following the previous night's games.

"I use them at nighttime to get the dry sweat off," Hamilton said. "I've played two games since I've been doing it and I've had a lot better at-bats. I've seen the ball a lot better."

This all sounds well and good, but we still have to wonder: How have the presumably countless blue-eyed ballplayers dealt with this issue in the past?