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We've had discussions before about how people have a light bulb go off and it changes the course of a game/year/career.

Just thought I'd share one...

Junior, a college soph, coming off labrum surgery last summer, is 1-2 without his former velocity or command. His body language shows a lack of confidence. He's essentially two months behind other pitchers in reps and work due to rehab.

Last week, I sent him the link to the Tom Seaver interview that was initially discovered by me here, in a thread on the HSBBW. I asked him after he watched it, if it was helpful or just remedial. He's brutally honest and not patronizing by nature, and told me he thought it was great.

Last weekend he got the W and went 5 2/3 with 3 hits, 1 BB in 78 pitches. He walked around the mound like he owned the joint. He didn't have his velocity, but he found his command.

It clicked...just from the innocent sharing of some info someone thought was cool...and changed my sons season.

Pretty cool place this is...
[COLOR:BLUE][i]Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.[/i][/COLOR]
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Originally posted by TPM:
CP,
Baseball, IMO is constantly lights on, lights off. Once they learn that, it becomes much easier.

Hope teh rest of the season goes well.


TPM,
You are so right...here's the rest of the story, and being a pitchers parent, it'll have ya nodding and laughing.

So Junior has 5 2/3's innings of 3 hit no run ball under his belt, two outs in the sixth. The kid coming to the plate is the first baseman that over the course of the weekend has taken every opportunity he could to put overly hard tags on our guys, including blasting our centerfielder off his feet when the cross infield throw pulled the 1st baseman off the bag. Junior wants to put one in his ribs so bad he can taste it, but doesn't know whether he should or not.

He gets behind the kid 2-0 and is consumed with doubt about what to do. Walks the kid on 4 pitches, and is steamed to the gills that the guy's on first without a bruise. Takes the next kid full, and gives up a 2 run dinger, walks the next guy on 5 pitches, end of his day. A complete loss of concentration.

So I told him, next time your instincts are telling you something, don't ignore them. Do what you need to do and move on, keep your focus.

I think they call that a growth opportunity. Big Grin

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