Reply to "Overcoming adversity - losing streak"

JCGStill working on a clever handle

The cool thing about baseball is that you can still compete 100% on every pitch no matter how bad the imbalance in talent is. It's not a football game. You're not getting your face literally pounded into the ground.

A hitter on a losing team that's down 10-0 going up against a future #1 draft choice on the hill still has an opportunity to win the at-bat.

From what I have seen there are two kinds of losing teams, and two kinds of players on losing teams -- those who have given up, and those who still compete on every pitch.

As was discussed here on the board, the Caltech baseball team famously went 29 years without winning a league game before they won a couple last year. I have seen them play. They compete.

4/13/1810:43 AM

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