I was just going through my hard drives, archiving photos from the past few months, and couldn't help but share a few for your perusal. It's amazing how strong of a presence Oakley has in professional sports, especially baseball where everyone and their mothers seem to be wearing the Pro M-Frame, like Johnny Damon:



A lot of Half Jackets, too, like Toronto Blue Jays rookie pitcher Gustavo Chacin, who oddly enough, wears his ALL THE TIME, including night games and his '05 MLB profile headshot.



Elsewhere in the baseball world, you have a few guys like Ichiro that have better taste. Here's Toronto Blue Jays Vernon Wells with a sweet pair of X-Metal/Ruby Juliets!



And close-up:



Of course, outside the baseball world, we also have the infamous Juan Pablo Montoya, here with his Colombian-flag icon Gascans:



And close-up:



That is all. For now. :)

All images for private viewing only, Copyright (c) 2005 Dave Cheng/US PRESSWIRE.

Oakley has picked up a chick in the Pro-Compact FWD drive class. I expect they will be full-blown next year. I can't remeber her name but will try to find it.

I'm guessing this in support of their new upcoming line of full-blown "chick" glasses line....

BTW - the latest Oakley Broadcast is very informative and worth a listen.

http://ndra.nopi.com/2k5gallery/norwalk/ProFWD/DSC_0061.html

Here she is...

http://ndra.nopi.com/2005/kd_dsp_racer.cfm?vrid=218

thank you so much Dave, Those are some awesome shots!

I did notice Johnny Damon, David Ortiz, and Manny Rameriez were all wearing Thump during batting practice before one of the games on T.V.

Chacin's HJ is Rx, which is why he always wears it. Pitchers aren't allowed to wear glasses otherwise, due to the frequency with which they get hit by comeback shots. Before anyone says anything about ANSI, a baseball going off a bat at around 80MPH is way more impact than Oakley's are rated for.

The ban on Pitchers wearing sunglasses for sun protection is what prompted the B&L/Nike contact lenses.

One more reason I love the Blue Jays!

The lighting on the close-up Ruby Juliet shot almost makes it look like a TiO2 frame. It's sorta sad that JPM has to be on a feeding tube now. Steph's got a pretty badass looking Civic there.

Well he walked into was assaulted by a camera, so it's not wonder.

tick , you are so funny LOL
doesn't that mind of you ever stop ???

Yeah, upon closer inspection, it does kinda look like TiO2. Here are two more actual pixel crops:





That would be awesome. TiO2/ruby. Wasn't there a thread a few months ago about this, something like the best possible Juliet combination? Maybe Vernon Wells reads the O-Review?

it doesn't look TiO2 to me , you should be able to see it from a distance due to the color-difference

Too bad JPM's temper isn't in a persistent vegetative state

on this site there are some cool pictures of Eggum's car
including the big O logo

http://eggumracing.com/

I can just see Vernon Wells sitting at his kitchen table with a T6 screwdriver swapping his ruby lenses...wondering if there are other people like him somwhere out there in this big old world. I'm going to see if I can email him this site address somehow.

I've made Tio2 Ruby. There are pics somewhere on this forum. Those are not Tio2 frames.

If you follow baseball some of the pitching staff on the Angels wear Clear Rx Oakleys.

Those are pure X-metal Ruby Juliet...

For those in Europe, or at least those who follow the cycling scene Oakley still has a big presence on bikes. All sorts of custom colors too, like "white out" m-frames for oscar sevilla of the Kelme team. Completly white frame/nose bombs/ear socks/logo's, then a nice ice lens. Got a great shot of them on a poster in my room, maybe I can capture the coolness and post a pic.

let's see the pic then

yeah post the pic if you can....but oscar sevilla i now teammember of the german "t-mobile" team. sometimes they wear the pink m-frame looks really crazy.

Ok, pushy pushy people. Here ya go. Busted out the camera and everything so you can see these cool one off M-Frames.
Just kidding, buy heres the pic.

Just noticed the nose bomb is black, blends in with the lens.

yes man that combo is cool.....I think I have to make this. I think he have blue irdium lenses, also red, fire and ice would be nice also.

That just wouldn't look as good if it did have a white nosepiece

isn't it a pearl color ?