High school baseball is different.
More pressure.
More on the line.
You’re playing for your school.
Your teammates.
Your community.
No re-dos.
No picking a new team next weekend.
Every game matters.
Different game. Different stakes.
Excited and blessed to announce I will be continuing my athletic and academic career at Hinds CC ! First I would like to thank God,My parents,Coaches,and friends and family who believed in me along the way .Go Eagles!!
@brandonhsbasbll@Cadekill9@CoachUpton34
During one of the worst losing streaks of my career, our team president walked into my office.
Keli McGregor. One of the best men I've ever known.
He could have come to vent. To question my decisions. To ask hard questions.
Instead, he said: "Cut to the chase, Clint. What's next?"
I looked him in the eye and gave him two words: "Shower well."
The Colorado Rockies were struggling badly that year.
Pregame preparation was solid. Scout meetings, early work, attention to detail. All of it was there.
But at game time, the tires were flat.
I told Keli: the game did everything it could to us today. We just couldn't meet its demands.
Now it was time to reset.
"Shower well" means exactly this:
• Watch the frustration circle down the drain
• Shampoo, rinse, repeat and get the grime of today completely off your mind
• Walk out clean, go home, and actually rest
Leave it at the ballpark. The game is over. There's nothing left to solve tonight.
Keli nodded. Asked if he could share it with the whole organization.
I said sure. And then it hit me. This isn't just for baseball.
Bad day at the office. Grumpy boss. Missed deadline. Traffic on the way home.
You can carry all of that through your front door.
Or you can shower well.
I've never seen a single problem get better because someone dragged it home with them.
The reset is a discipline. Same as preparation. Same as showing up.
Either we win. Or we learn.
The only real loss? When you don't take a single thing out of a hard day.
So tonight, whatever kind of day it was, shower well.
Tomorrow is a new at-bat.
What does your reset look like? I'd love to hear it.
Every day at 7PM, taps is played over the loudspeakers at Dallas National Cemetery, just beyond the outfield wall at DBU
During every gameday at 7, they pause to honor the fallen troops buried just beyond the wall
One of the best traditions in sports
To the “too cool for school” high school kids who sit on the bench and don’t support their teammates…these are the dugouts at UTSA & Ohio State. Not a single player other than the pitcher and catcher sitting on the bench…
Like many others, been saying it for years.
Anyone who discourages your child from playing multiple sports does not have your child’s best interests in mind.
Period.
@CollegeGameDay Previous coaches should be on the committee for the playoffs, creating the calendar, and making the rules. Everything would be much more about players than money, which is what it is now.