There is a trend I've noticed over a period of time with baseball coaches and "baseball people" in general. This doesn't hold true at all times, but there's definitely a corrolation.
From shooting Prospect and Showcase (*note, not a promotion here...I figure most of the people here who are going to get the movie already got it) I've been in contact regularly with all kinds of college coaches, scouts, mlb, and minor league players, coaches, etc.
And naturally, when you're dealing baseball coaches, I've been big leagued probably five or six times. By big leagued I mean they kind of scoff when I ask them for an interview, or when they see the dvd cover they assume the movie is soooo far beneath them or things like this. Nothing majorly offensive, but big leaguing none the less.
The surprising thing though is that every time this has happened, it's been a small time guy or a guy that just got promoted to head coach at a small school (not to take anything away from small schools with limited budgets). Whereas the coaches from the big powerhouse programs and the successful pro players and coaches are generally very receptive, want to see what's going on, respectful, etc. Even to the point of when I filmed Prospect, I had David Wright and Cuddyer from the Twins at my house and they both stayed to watch the other interview saying they were interested to see what the other said and were open to learning from eachother - I have a great clip of this at the 'interview switch' time.
Sometimes I want to react to the slights from the lesser known guys, but it's probably a good life lesson. The way the successful guys approach everything is probably a big part of why they're successful. Just a thought.
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