Jason Kelce talking about the importance of fathers in his retirement speech: "I think one of the best things a person can be in this world is a father. A father who is present, devoted, and loving is the greatest gift a child could ask for in our society."
Hitting off a velocity your haven’t seen before is hard.
But hitting off slower than you’ve seen is easier.
So why avoid training vs high velocity?….Saving your failures for the game?
Playing multiple sports in high school is a good thing. Some of the best pros in the world didn’t specialize in high school.
Being well-rounded is important. Student council, music, arts, working a job.. Do many things in high school to build a well-rounded foundation for your future.
Operating within multiple social circles = growth. If you play baseball and are on the debate team you will be a part of two distinct cultures. If you play football and basketball you will progress in a multitude of ways based on the different roles you play on each team, the different styles of coaching, and the culture of each program.
Maybe you are all-conference in volleyball but a backup in basketball which you worked equally as hard in. This will teach you a lot about discipline, being a great teammate, role acceptance, and leadership.
Adding a part-time job to your schedule in high school is another great way to become well-rounded and create a foundation for the future. It will teach you how to answer to authority, how to work with others, customer service, how to stand up for yourself, money management and more.
Diversity in activities and social circles is important. It can be a generational talent like Aaron Judge playing three sports. It can look like a kid at a large school who participates in one sport, one non-sport extracurricular, and works part time. It can be the small school kid who does everything and still helps out with the family business.
It’s important for high school students to load up on activities which stimulate personal, academic, and future growth and avoid spending countless hours staring at screens playing video games, scrolling on TikTok, and watching TV.
Successful high school athletics change a community. Go to a state tournament and watch the community close down their town to come support. It’s more than just the student-athletes too. The band, cheerleaders, alum, parents, grandparents are all greatly impacted. It is SPECIAL!
HS Baseball Players
I'm down in GA at the Future Games & here's my No. 1 takeaway: These players are big & physical.
If your goals are to play baseball at the next-level, get in the WEIGHT ROOM & change your body 💪
Bigger. Faster. Stronger 💯
NEGATIVE BODY LANGUAGE LETS
• Your opponents know they have the upper hand
• Your teammates know your selfish
• Recruiters know you can't handle adversity
• Random spectators form opinions about you
Nothing good comes from negative BL.
KEEP YOUR CALM
~ via @DanCevette
A huge congrats to this years Rusty Shull award winner @EWitherspoon22!
Erik exemplified everything Rusty stood for, and we are honored to carry out Rusty’s legacy of sportmanship and character through this award.
Congrats Erik!
@RioBaseball
Players...You have to LIFT and PLAY! If you can't figure out how...you'll be starting over after every season. Stop with the I'm not going to play X, Y, Z season because I'm going to lift. NO, you have to lift year round.
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Repeat after me:
𝓓𝓻𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓓𝓻𝓲𝓹.
Too many players wanna put the Drip before the Drills, but it doesn’t work that way.
No one wants a Drippy SS with stone-hands.
A hitter in head-to-toe armor who can’t hit is just an easy out.
Don’t be that guy, pal.
“I don’t want to be a home run-strikeout guy. I want to be singles-doubles hitter — and let the home runs happen. I just want to get on base for the guys and do as much as I can.” - @AP_2305
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Hitters: YOU don't control the strikes being called, but YOU do control your approach.
Pitchers: YOU don't control the strikes being called, but YOU do control your focus.
STOP letting the things we don't control beat us. 💯
Control the controllables ‼️🙌
We are playing Bethel 4/19 at 6:00. To cover the cost of the game, we are selling tickets to a Dayton Dragons game 4/16. This will be a fun family event. All are welcome, see link below. Please help us by attending this event to cover the cost of the game! https://t.co/eLRgRURWha