Friday, August 31, 2012
OVER COACHING - LET THE KIDS PLAY
Baseball ain't easy. It requires a lot of practice to master the mechanics and fundamentals. Pitching, hitting, fielding, base running and more.
Base runners need to understand defensive positioning, angles, accurate or wild throws.
Hitters need to learn pitchers tendencies.
Pitchers and catchers need to recognize hitters' strengths and weaknesses. Not to mention probable in game situational approaches.
Even with years of practice and training, the game remains challenging.
Today, kids have been playing organized baseball from such young ages that they don't think for themselves anymore.
Whatever happened to pick-up games? Sandlot games? Street ball? Even whiffle ball!
Organized baseball at the amateur levels is just the way it is nowadays.
You know what the number one complaint of many, if not most, professional baseball people (coaches and scouts) when talking about amateur baseball?
It's talked about privately, not publicly.
OVER COACHING!
Kids are not allowed to just 'play the game' themselves.
Don't throw a pitch unless the coach tells you to. Don't try and take the extra base without checking with the coach. Don't bunt, steal or hit-n-run unless you get the sign.
Players play safe. They've been coached and trained that way... for years.
How do you learn to be an aggressive base runner if you're not willing to risk being picked off?
I have a great deal of admiration and respect for all amateur coaches. They willingly give up their time. Make financial sacrifices. And, unfortunately, are unfairly criticized far too often.
But, it's about the kids. Not the coaches.
It's about player development. Not just winning. What the player learns on their own (whether good or bad) develops self confidence.
And anyone who has ever played this game knows that self confidence in baseball is a critical characteristic in every good player.
Coaches need to let the kids play!
Allow the players, at all levels, to learn on their own. Make their own decisions. Develop baseball instincts.
To have FUN!
Players are people. Not robots.
It's time to let go of the reigns. A least a little bit.
It's amazing, thrilling and rewarding to watch players develop on their own.
And... a lot more fun!
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
HILARIOUS!!!
LITTLE GUY ROUNDING SECOND...
HILARIOUS!
Crowd roaring and cheering, his first and only hit of the season...
He rounds second base, feet pumping, arms flying and a little guys determined, yet excited fearful face...
In the outfield, a missed catch, hurried wild throw, relay after six bounces off the clumpy grass...
HILARIOUS!
Crowd roaring and cheering, his first and only hit of the season...
He rounds second base, feet pumping, arms flying and a little guys determined, yet excited fearful face...
In the outfield, a missed catch, hurried wild throw, relay after six bounces off the clumpy grass...
Determined not to be thrown out, he is...
Coach hollering, "Down, down, down!"
So determined and excited, his eyes are closed... "Gotta make it!"
Suddenly... the crowd goes silent... then roars into laughter...
The little guy passes third, keeps on running and does a head first slide into the bag...
Safe!!!
Safe!!! Into FIRST BASE on the adjacent field!
Too precious... u can't make this stuff up!
No matter your age, experience or station in life... is this game fun or what!
Coach hollering, "Down, down, down!"
So determined and excited, his eyes are closed... "Gotta make it!"
Suddenly... the crowd goes silent... then roars into laughter...
The little guy passes third, keeps on running and does a head first slide into the bag...
Safe!!!
Safe!!! Into FIRST BASE on the adjacent field!
Too precious... u can't make this stuff up!
No matter your age, experience or station in life... is this game fun or what!
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
WHAT IS YOUR GOAL AS A HITTER?
All Hitters Must Answer This Question:
What Is Your Goal As A Hitter?
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
A BASEBALL MAN'S MAN
FORGIVE ME:
My words are inadequate for Sam Suplizio and his extraordinary life of accomplishments, influences, friendships and respect.
"Never will I meet a man who accomplished so much and spoke so little of himself. He always made you feel like you were the important one" Randy (Dusty) Rhodes
"Sourdough Sam" Suplizio, R.I.P.
(Published: December 31, 2006)
Sam Suplizio (63-64)
That the surname of Samuel Victor Suplizio graces the baseball diamond at Grand Junction’s Lincoln Park sports complex is as about as instructive a testament as there is to all that the longtime local civic leader has meant to the game of baseball in Grand Junction. But Suplizio’s decades-long central involvement in Grand Junction’s National Junior College Baseball World Series barely begins to scratch the surface of what the man has meant to the game of baseball. Were it not for the key leadership role Suplizio played as a member of the Colorado Baseball Commission in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Colorado Rockies may very well not be in existence today as a Major League Baseball franchise.
As an athletically gifted country kid growing up in the small, rural northwestern Pennsylvania town of DuBois, Suplizio excelled on every athletic field or court he ever stepped upon. But it was baseball where Suplizio’s talents really stood out, so much so that Suplizio was destined to join the 1950s-era New York Yankees of Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Bobby Richardson, Yogi Berra et al. until what once seemed like a clear path to the big leagues was permanently foreclosed by a career-ending injury.
However, what Suplizio has meant to Grand Junction and the entire state of Colorado since he moved here in the late 1950s goes far, far beyond his success in baseball. On virtually every initiative of overriding civic importance undertaken in Grand Junction and Mesa County over the course of almost all of the last half century, Suplizio could be counted on to be actively involved in every undertaking.
As the former principal owner and president of Home Loan Insurance and Investment, Suplizio was enormously successful in business and saw to it that his company was always among the Grand Valley’s most stellar corporate citizens, a legacy that continues to this day.
Active for years in the Mesa County Republican Party, Suplizio briefly became the subject of a statewide boomlet of support urging him to run for governor against Roy Romer in 1994. Suplizio gave serious thought to seeking the GOP nomination for governor against the highly popular Romer but, as he told this corner at the time, he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving the Grand Valley for Denver.
Suplizio suffered a severe stroke four years ago while coaching during a Major League Baseball spring training camp in Arizona. For those who knew him well, it was obvious that Suplizio’s health was never close to being the same after he collapsed and came close to losing his life in the Arizona sun.
Samuel Victor Suplizio died suddenly of heart failure late Friday at his winter home in South Carolina. He was 74.
Like the thousands of his friends and admirers throughout the Grand Valley, Colorado and Major League Baseball, we will miss him dearly.
My words are inadequate for Sam Suplizio and his extraordinary life of accomplishments, influences, friendships and respect.
"Never will I meet a man who accomplished so much and spoke so little of himself. He always made you feel like you were the important one" Randy (Dusty) Rhodes
"Sourdough Sam" Suplizio, R.I.P.
(Published: December 31, 2006)
Sam Suplizio (63-64)
That the surname of Samuel Victor Suplizio graces the baseball diamond at Grand Junction’s Lincoln Park sports complex is as about as instructive a testament as there is to all that the longtime local civic leader has meant to the game of baseball in Grand Junction. But Suplizio’s decades-long central involvement in Grand Junction’s National Junior College Baseball World Series barely begins to scratch the surface of what the man has meant to the game of baseball. Were it not for the key leadership role Suplizio played as a member of the Colorado Baseball Commission in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Colorado Rockies may very well not be in existence today as a Major League Baseball franchise.
As an athletically gifted country kid growing up in the small, rural northwestern Pennsylvania town of DuBois, Suplizio excelled on every athletic field or court he ever stepped upon. But it was baseball where Suplizio’s talents really stood out, so much so that Suplizio was destined to join the 1950s-era New York Yankees of Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Bobby Richardson, Yogi Berra et al. until what once seemed like a clear path to the big leagues was permanently foreclosed by a career-ending injury.
However, what Suplizio has meant to Grand Junction and the entire state of Colorado since he moved here in the late 1950s goes far, far beyond his success in baseball. On virtually every initiative of overriding civic importance undertaken in Grand Junction and Mesa County over the course of almost all of the last half century, Suplizio could be counted on to be actively involved in every undertaking.
As the former principal owner and president of Home Loan Insurance and Investment, Suplizio was enormously successful in business and saw to it that his company was always among the Grand Valley’s most stellar corporate citizens, a legacy that continues to this day.
Active for years in the Mesa County Republican Party, Suplizio briefly became the subject of a statewide boomlet of support urging him to run for governor against Roy Romer in 1994. Suplizio gave serious thought to seeking the GOP nomination for governor against the highly popular Romer but, as he told this corner at the time, he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving the Grand Valley for Denver.
Suplizio suffered a severe stroke four years ago while coaching during a Major League Baseball spring training camp in Arizona. For those who knew him well, it was obvious that Suplizio’s health was never close to being the same after he collapsed and came close to losing his life in the Arizona sun.
Samuel Victor Suplizio died suddenly of heart failure late Friday at his winter home in South Carolina. He was 74.
Like the thousands of his friends and admirers throughout the Grand Valley, Colorado and Major League Baseball, we will miss him dearly.
Grand Junction benefactor Sam Suplizio, 74
Sam Suplizio, whose career ended in injury, coached in the major leagues.
GRAND JUNCTION - Sam Suplizio, a one-time prospect in the New York Yankees farm system who rose to help bring major league baseball to Colorado and who made the National Junior College World Series a community institution on the Western Slope, died last week at his home in South Carolina
Mr. Suplizio, who lived in Grand Junction for more than 40 years and maintained a home here, died of heart failure at 74.
"Sam was a dynamic, charismatic and enthusiastic leader with a great passion for whatever he set out to do,'' said Jamie Hamilton, who succeeded Mr. Suplizio as head of Home Loan Insurance.
Hamilton, who also succeeded Mr. Suplizio at the helm of the junior college tournament, held in Grand Junction the past 49 years, said his friend and mentor kept a favorite picture on his desk: Mr. Suplizio embracing Cal Ripken Jr. minutes after the Baltimore Orioles infielder set baseball's ironman record.
Mr. Suplizio, then a coach for the Anaheim Angels, was on the field at Camden Yards the night of Sept. 6, 1995, when Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,130 consecutive starts.
Sam Suplizio, whose career ended in injury, coached in the major leagues.
GRAND JUNCTION - Sam Suplizio, a one-time prospect in the New York Yankees farm system who rose to help bring major league baseball to Colorado and who made the National Junior College World Series a community institution on the Western Slope, died last week at his home in South Carolina
Mr. Suplizio, who lived in Grand Junction for more than 40 years and maintained a home here, died of heart failure at 74.
"Sam was a dynamic, charismatic and enthusiastic leader with a great passion for whatever he set out to do,'' said Jamie Hamilton, who succeeded Mr. Suplizio as head of Home Loan Insurance.
Hamilton, who also succeeded Mr. Suplizio at the helm of the junior college tournament, held in Grand Junction the past 49 years, said his friend and mentor kept a favorite picture on his desk: Mr. Suplizio embracing Cal Ripken Jr. minutes after the Baltimore Orioles infielder set baseball's ironman record.
Mr. Suplizio, then a coach for the Anaheim Angels, was on the field at Camden Yards the night of Sept. 6, 1995, when Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,130 consecutive starts.
Mr. Suplizio called it his biggest thrill in baseball.
His own career ended with a badly broken arm when he was a star prospect for the Yankees. He had signed with New York after graduating from the University of New Mexico, where he played football and baseball and was the school's first All-American baseball player.
"The guy was a hell of a baseball player, he really was,'' said Gene Rozelle, a retired Grand Junction radio personality and sports announcer. "There was a big possibility that Roger Maris never would have hit 61 homers because Sam would be in right field instead. But then he got hurt."
Mr. Suplizio then came to Grand Junction to play for and manage the semipro Grand Junction Eagles. By the late 1950s, he and others were lobbying for the -JUCO tournament, which debuted in 1959.
"We made many, many trips to Kansas to promote our town because there were a lot of places bidding to get it,'' recalled Hurst Otto, who served on the local JUCO committee. "But we succeeded in keeping it here."
In the years to come, Mr. Suplizio coached for the Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers and Seattle Mariners. He was a member of a number of halls of fame, including the National Junior College Association, University of New Mexico National Coaches and Colorado.
A Republican activist, Mr. Suplizio entertained political ambitions, said longtime friend Tillie Bishop, a former state senator newly elected to the University of Colorado Board of Regents.
"He was all set to run for the Colorado House in the mid-'70s but realized his business would take too big a loss if he were away that amount of time," Bishop said. "Later on he talked about running for governor but decided against it.''
Mr. Suplizio's relationship with Gov. Roy Romer led to his appointment as co-chairman of the Colorado Baseball Commission, where he helped bring the Rockies to Denver, Bishop said.
Mr. Suplizio said in the late 1990s that Major League Baseball officials were concerned Denver might not be large enough to support a franchise. So surveys were taken of license plates and season-ticket holders to the Denver Broncos.
The results showed Denver's major sports teams attract faithful fans not only from the Front Range but also the rest of Colorado and parts of Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and New Mexico.
One of Mr. Suplizio's closest friends, lawyer Terry Farina, said Mr. Suplizio "contributed mightily to the life and times of Grand Junction, and he left the Home Loan Community Benefit Foundation, which contributes thousands of dollars yearly to nonprofit agencies.''
Mr. Suplizio, born in Dubois, Pa., married Lonny Sullivan, and they had four children. They divorced, and nine years ago he married Caroline Sorrento, who survives.
His own career ended with a badly broken arm when he was a star prospect for the Yankees. He had signed with New York after graduating from the University of New Mexico, where he played football and baseball and was the school's first All-American baseball player.
"The guy was a hell of a baseball player, he really was,'' said Gene Rozelle, a retired Grand Junction radio personality and sports announcer. "There was a big possibility that Roger Maris never would have hit 61 homers because Sam would be in right field instead. But then he got hurt."
Mr. Suplizio then came to Grand Junction to play for and manage the semipro Grand Junction Eagles. By the late 1950s, he and others were lobbying for the -JUCO tournament, which debuted in 1959.
"We made many, many trips to Kansas to promote our town because there were a lot of places bidding to get it,'' recalled Hurst Otto, who served on the local JUCO committee. "But we succeeded in keeping it here."
In the years to come, Mr. Suplizio coached for the Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers and Seattle Mariners. He was a member of a number of halls of fame, including the National Junior College Association, University of New Mexico National Coaches and Colorado.
A Republican activist, Mr. Suplizio entertained political ambitions, said longtime friend Tillie Bishop, a former state senator newly elected to the University of Colorado Board of Regents.
"He was all set to run for the Colorado House in the mid-'70s but realized his business would take too big a loss if he were away that amount of time," Bishop said. "Later on he talked about running for governor but decided against it.''
Mr. Suplizio's relationship with Gov. Roy Romer led to his appointment as co-chairman of the Colorado Baseball Commission, where he helped bring the Rockies to Denver, Bishop said.
Mr. Suplizio said in the late 1990s that Major League Baseball officials were concerned Denver might not be large enough to support a franchise. So surveys were taken of license plates and season-ticket holders to the Denver Broncos.
The results showed Denver's major sports teams attract faithful fans not only from the Front Range but also the rest of Colorado and parts of Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and New Mexico.
One of Mr. Suplizio's closest friends, lawyer Terry Farina, said Mr. Suplizio "contributed mightily to the life and times of Grand Junction, and he left the Home Loan Community Benefit Foundation, which contributes thousands of dollars yearly to nonprofit agencies.''
Mr. Suplizio, born in Dubois, Pa., married Lonny Sullivan, and they had four children. They divorced, and nine years ago he married Caroline Sorrento, who survives.
Other survivors include two sons, Sam Jr. and
Tom Suplizio; daughters Carter Anderson and Cindy Mueller; brother Paul
Suplizio, of Washington, D.C.; sister Ella Jean Reynolds, of El Dorado,
Mo.; and nine grandchildren.
Services are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Precious Blood of Christ Catholic Church in Pawleys Island, S.C. Another service is tentatively scheduled late next week at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Grand Junction.
GJ's Mr. JUCO dies
By ERIK LINCOLN The Daily Sentinel
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Longtime Grand Junction civic leader and businessman Sam Suplizio died Friday at his home in Pawleys Island, S.C., of heart failure. He was 74.
Suplizio, a Major League Baseball coach, was instrumental in bringing the annual Alpine Bank Junior College World Series to Grand Junction and was a key player in bringing Major League Baseball to Colorado.
Suplizio’s family said services will be held in Pawleys Island and in Grand Junction.
Former New York Yankees infielder Bobby Richardson was Suplizio’s friend for 52 years.
Services are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Precious Blood of Christ Catholic Church in Pawleys Island, S.C. Another service is tentatively scheduled late next week at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Grand Junction.
GJ's Mr. JUCO dies
By ERIK LINCOLN The Daily Sentinel
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Longtime Grand Junction civic leader and businessman Sam Suplizio died Friday at his home in Pawleys Island, S.C., of heart failure. He was 74.
Suplizio, a Major League Baseball coach, was instrumental in bringing the annual Alpine Bank Junior College World Series to Grand Junction and was a key player in bringing Major League Baseball to Colorado.
Suplizio’s family said services will be held in Pawleys Island and in Grand Junction.
Former New York Yankees infielder Bobby Richardson was Suplizio’s friend for 52 years.
The two met in the 1950s when Suplizio was an outfielder for the Yankees and was penciled in to replace Mickey Mantle.
However, Suplizio suffered a compound fracture to his right wrist at age 24 that never completely healed.
“That literally ended his career,” Richardson said. “He hated it because his dream was to play centerfield for the Yankees.”
Suplizio came to Grand Junction in 1958 and went to work for Home Loan and Investment Co. in Grand Junction, a firm he headed when he retired in 1998, and sold the business to Jamie Hamilton.
Hamilton, the current president and CEO of Home Loan and Mesa State College’s athletic director, said Suplizio taught him to find a balance between doing what he loves and his business career.
Hamilton first met Suplizio at a baseball clinic as a senior at Regis High School in 1974. The two later crossed paths when Hamilton was playing baseball for Mesa College in the late 1970s.
Suplizio promised to help Hamilton find a spot on the Angels, and even when Hamilton wasn’t drafted, Suplizio called his friends on the team and got Hamilton a place in the Angels’ infield.
“Sam was the guy who gave me the opportunity to play professional baseball,” Hamilton said.
Later, Suplizio helped Hamilton follow a path similar to his by helping him to coach for the Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs and Mesa State College while Hamilton was also working at Home Loan.
“He wanted to stay close to the game and his business,” Hamilton said. “Success allowed him to do that.”
Suplizio, while running a business in Grand Junction, also found time to coach for the California Angels, Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals and, most recently, the Seattle Mariners.
Richardson said Suplizio was well thought of as a coach, particularly at mentoring outfielders.
“He probably has more friends in baseball than anybody I know,” Richardson said.
Suplizio’s connections with baseball helped the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series thrive. It was through his efforts that the tournament was able to draw keynote speakers to the JUCO banquet.
Major League Baseball Commissioners Bowie Kuhn and Bud Selig; former managers Bobby Valentine, Whitey Herzog, Tommy Lasorda, Davey Johnson, Joe Torre and Buck Showalter; Yankees owner George Steinbrenner; and former major league stars Paul Molitor, Reggie Jackson, Tom Seaver and Bob Gibson are among the baseball dignitaries who have given the keynote address at the pre-tournament banquet.
“If he couldn’t get them, he knew people who could,” said Mesa County Commissioner and Suplizio friend Tillie Bishop.
However, Suplizio suffered a compound fracture to his right wrist at age 24 that never completely healed.
“That literally ended his career,” Richardson said. “He hated it because his dream was to play centerfield for the Yankees.”
Suplizio came to Grand Junction in 1958 and went to work for Home Loan and Investment Co. in Grand Junction, a firm he headed when he retired in 1998, and sold the business to Jamie Hamilton.
Hamilton, the current president and CEO of Home Loan and Mesa State College’s athletic director, said Suplizio taught him to find a balance between doing what he loves and his business career.
Hamilton first met Suplizio at a baseball clinic as a senior at Regis High School in 1974. The two later crossed paths when Hamilton was playing baseball for Mesa College in the late 1970s.
Suplizio promised to help Hamilton find a spot on the Angels, and even when Hamilton wasn’t drafted, Suplizio called his friends on the team and got Hamilton a place in the Angels’ infield.
“Sam was the guy who gave me the opportunity to play professional baseball,” Hamilton said.
Later, Suplizio helped Hamilton follow a path similar to his by helping him to coach for the Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs and Mesa State College while Hamilton was also working at Home Loan.
“He wanted to stay close to the game and his business,” Hamilton said. “Success allowed him to do that.”
Suplizio, while running a business in Grand Junction, also found time to coach for the California Angels, Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals and, most recently, the Seattle Mariners.
Richardson said Suplizio was well thought of as a coach, particularly at mentoring outfielders.
“He probably has more friends in baseball than anybody I know,” Richardson said.
Suplizio’s connections with baseball helped the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series thrive. It was through his efforts that the tournament was able to draw keynote speakers to the JUCO banquet.
Major League Baseball Commissioners Bowie Kuhn and Bud Selig; former managers Bobby Valentine, Whitey Herzog, Tommy Lasorda, Davey Johnson, Joe Torre and Buck Showalter; Yankees owner George Steinbrenner; and former major league stars Paul Molitor, Reggie Jackson, Tom Seaver and Bob Gibson are among the baseball dignitaries who have given the keynote address at the pre-tournament banquet.
“If he couldn’t get them, he knew people who could,” said Mesa County Commissioner and Suplizio friend Tillie Bishop.
Suplizio, along with Jay Tolman, D.S. “Dyke”
Dykstra and Dale Hollingsworth, helped to bring the tournament to Grand
Junction in 1959.
With Suplizio’s baseball background, Dykstra, who was the tournament chairman during its first nine years in Grand Junction, put Suplizio in charge of tournament play and the groundskeeping.
“I depended on Sam quite a bit for his baseball knowledge and the people he knew,” said Dykstra, the sole member of the four who is still living.
Suplizio served as chairman of the tournament for 33 years.
Carter Elliott and his wife, Lena, met Suplizio when they moved to the city in 1958.
Suplizio was the Elliotts’ insurance man, and they got to know each other through attending the same church, Immaculate Heart of Mary.
With Suplizio’s baseball background, Dykstra, who was the tournament chairman during its first nine years in Grand Junction, put Suplizio in charge of tournament play and the groundskeeping.
“I depended on Sam quite a bit for his baseball knowledge and the people he knew,” said Dykstra, the sole member of the four who is still living.
Suplizio served as chairman of the tournament for 33 years.
Carter Elliott and his wife, Lena, met Suplizio when they moved to the city in 1958.
Suplizio was the Elliotts’ insurance man, and they got to know each other through attending the same church, Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
A CHAMPIONS CHARACTER
Show Everyday... What You Can Do,
And How Well You Can Do It...
And How Well You Can Do It...
When You DON’T Feel Like Doing
It!
It's FREE!
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Monday, August 20, 2012
BETTER HITTERS GET THIS
Better Hitting, Style,
Method, Fundamentals,
Only Become Better...
When You Learn To
Only Become Better...
When You Learn To
Always
Practice With Focus
On Becoming Better At
What You're Working On...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
WHAT EVERY GOOD PLAYER HAS
You know the feeling. Every ballplayer does.
The days when you wake up, roll out of bed, and think, "Oh
no, not again. Another day of busting it to make myself a better player."
Day after day, you
get out of bed to do it again. Your unsure of yourself. Lacking confidence. Asking, "Why can't I get this?"
But, you have the key attributes every good player has.
A never give up PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION!
Then suddenly, in a moment, it all
changes.
Boom! Just like that. It happens. Something clicks and that one thing you've been working so hard on - becomes easy. You broke through the barrier. Took the challenge. And WON!
You are
responsible for exactly who, what, and where you are in baseball. And in life. That
will be just as true tomorrow, next year and for forever.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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Baseball Training Video Magazine
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
YOUR OFF TO COLLEGE BALL
YOUR OFF TO PLAY IN COLLEGE
Congrats! Atta baby! Your off to play in college!
Getting accepted to college and having the opportunity to embark on your new academic and athletic endeavor is quite an accomplishment.
Getting into college is only the first step. Doing well is just as important.
You will be anxious to get started. You will have worries and concerns.
Mentally, keep it simple. Follow directions. Be a low maintenance player for your coaching staff and team.
BE A DIFFERENCE MAKER!
Do all the little things you already know to do. Be on time, be supportive of your teammates and set the standard for how hard you work and prepare.
Nothing is guaranteed. Not even for the full scholarship guys. I've seen many who were there in August and looking for a new school by Christmas.
In short, leave the program in better shape than when you arrived.
But whoa! It's not just baseball.
You have classes. You have to study to get the grades.
No grades, no play!
Getting good grades are not just important for staying baseball eligible either.
Keep in mind, grades and GPA are something that your future employers may look at and absolutely will be heavily considered when you apply to graduate, medical or law schools across the country.
Do the right things!
- Meet with a counselor!
- Utilize your resources and expand your social network!
- Choose the right living situation for you!
- Make studying a habit that becomes second nature!
Your embarking on a great journey. Lifetime memories and friendships will be made.
Enjoy and embrace the opportunity!
Be the "Unbeatable Man!" And have fun!!!
All the Best!
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Friday, August 3, 2012
NEVER BE DISCOURAGED!
"It's Not Where You're At,
It's
Where You're Going!"
”
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Why the Best Practice On Their Own
TO Do, What You Want To Do In The Future!
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
SUCCESS IS NOT BY CHANCE
Quality Effort Will
Always Lead To Success.
Quality Effort Will
Make You Perform At A High Level All The Time.
Lack Of Quality Effort
Will Bring Only Sporadic Success By Chance.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
ATTENTION ALL CATCHERS
THE 7 MUST HAVE
Intangible Characteristics of a Good Baseball Catcher
1) Be
a Dynamic Leader: Teammates
need to respect you as “Da Man!”.
2) Take
Charge: Control the games rhythm and tempo.
3) Toughness:
Your toughness will be noticed and inspire everyone.
4) Body
Language: Always play with a
upbeat, robust, unbreakable, agile and positive energy.
No
organization, coach or team wants a catcher that is slow
or dragging.
5) Work
Ethic: Be the hardest worker. All the time.
6) Pride:
Take pride in what you do. Wear it like a “Badge of Honor”.
7) Fun:
Always play like your having FUN!
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