Kinda like Wakefield and Doug Mirabelli, Scott Hattaberg and Kevin Cash...

Knuckleballs themselves are not difficult to catch (coming from a catcher that catches many of them in softball), but you need to learn an individual pitcher's tendancy on them, knucks have thier own inconsistant movements, but differnt pitchers have ball personalitys that you can learn to track... it takes several months to be fully comfortable and competent, not a couple practices... (personally I've seen knucks from several pitchers for the past 6 years, only 2 I'm fully comfortable with due to playing with them 4 years each)

Its is also difficult to go from a +90 MPH Fastball and Sliders to a Knuck, which is why you see mostly backups work with Knuckleballers and become personal catchers that will only play once every 5 games and maybe catch a few from the pen...

I use 2 gloves for catching differnt types pitchers, and I will exchange them mid inning when a new pitcher is introduced to a game if needed...

I know long, useless, personal story to agree with the fact Thole needs to come with Dickey...

I'm lucky I got rid of Thole (as much as I like him) last year, as I own Arencibia, Wieters and now Derek Norris instead of Thole...

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Current Roster:

F: H Sedin, Plekanec, Kovalchuck, Perry, Cammalleri, Oshie, Stepan, Anisimov, Kunitz, Justin Williams, Little, Baertchi, Huberdeau, Olli Jokinen, Eberle, Rattie, Alfredsson

D: Boumeester, Green, Carlson, Vlasic, Del Zotto, Myers, Scandella

G: Niemi, Varlamov, Neuvirth, Harding, Ramo, Vasilevski