As I’m watching snow outside, I know its January and January always gets my energy level up as I know BASEBALL IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. We have tryouts here in February so it’ll be on us in no time. I always picture the first practice and what I’ll do. I just...
Well who’s counting, but we just had the season ending party for my team. They finished under 0.500 but I thought they had a great season. The best part of the party was when I asked who was going to play again next season and everyone raised their hand (OK...
Nothing can keep a baseball coach up more at night than ruminating about the order of pitchers for an upcoming game. I remember reading a biography of Vince Lombardi where he is quoted as saying that football was an odd game since 90% depended on the...
Readers of this blog (thanks!) know that I’m not one of those feel-good coaches who constantly says happy things to players even when they do not perform. I tell them the truth, they like it, they work hard, they trust me, and in general they learn and the whole...
And so it came to pass that before our first game, I realized I hadn’t covered warmups between innings. For pre-game warmup, we had rehearsed in practice as I wanted it to look like we had a clue. But the pre-inning warmup is a thing I usually forget about and just...
