Samuel C Mason

Standards Over Scoreboard - Head Baseball Coach @wphsbaseball - State Champion Baseball Coach (2023) - Husband - Father #AGTG

[#ThePACK Baseball @wphsbaseball]

National Coaches Day

Coaching is bigger than the wins and losses. it’s about teaching, challenging helping out young men grow.

I’m especially grateful for the Coach in our staff who poured into our boys every day. This program doesn’t move forward without them.

#ThePack

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

We won 4-2.

But for five innings we held the standard. In the sixth, we didn't.

That's where we are right now.

Progress is showing up. So are old habits.

We're headed in the right direction. Still a ways to go.

https://t.co/0UlkYQs29C

#StandardsOverScoreboard

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

I cant wait to share this next substack article about how SOS Baseball is working for @wphsbaseball!

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

@LinetoLineLLC Do you all have a teal option?

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

First game tonight.

Ironically, the scoreboard won't be on. We're still competing to win.

But tonight we also get our first chance to see if the standards we've been teaching show up against someone other than ourselves.

No scoreboard needed for that.

#StandardsOverScoreboard

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

@nut_history Can it be an umpire error? If so, give me Jim Joyce and the blown call on Armando Galarraga Perfect Game bid!

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

Something we're trying to teach our players:

Accountability isn't just accepting a consequence.

Face what's true.
Own what's yours.
Choose a new direction.

The mistake matters. What you do next matters more.

#StandardsOverScoreboard #Baseball #Coaching

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

A senior who hasn't always bought in led our stretch this week.

Later, he spoke to the team about listening to feedback from everyone—freshman to senior.

Small things. Maybe they're starting to get it.

https://t.co/3iFtQJAemk

#StandardsOverScoreboard

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

A freshman showed up late to practice.

Nobody told him to run. He owned it and ran his poles before joining us.

That's what I want from Standards Over Scoreboard.

Not the poles. The ownership.

Article #2:
https://t.co/WEsGQ0oheY

#StandardsOverScoreboard #Baseball

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

@nut_history 3rd grade. Teacher informed us towards the end of they day. Girl next to me had family in DC and was crying. Parents were quiet. Everything was quiet.

Every year the memories of that day mean more and more.

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

@CodyBrownBets 47

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

There’s a big difference between a life of good intentions and an intentional life.

The same is true in coaching.

Stop hoping your standards become your culture.

Build them intentionally.

#Coaching #Baseball #StandardsOverScoreboard

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

I spent my first 2 years as a HC chasing the scoreboard. 5 wins later, I realized I had lost sight of some of the things it actually takes to build a winning program.

Year 3 starts with a different approach:

Standards Over Scoreboard.

I wrote about why
https://t.co/rdu79aavbw

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

@CoachMorgado If you got paid to play baseball, I think you can say you played professionally. The key is how you present it. There’s a difference between being transparent about playing independent pro ball and using “former pro” in a way that leads parents to assume something different.

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

@shegone03 Do those things have to be mutually exclusive? Baseball can have personality and still have standards. Let players be themselves, but make the boundaries clear and hold everyone accountable when they cross them. Good coaching should be able to do both.

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

@erikwagle11 That’s really where my thinking is headed. Adapting doesn’t mean lowering standards or ignoring what may be missing. It means recognizing what today’s player needs from us and teaching it. We can complain that they “should already know” or accept that they don’t and develop it.

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

@erikwagle11 @FatherOf4Lunas Absolutely, training is development. My point is more about developing skills vs. developing the complete player. Are we getting better at training measurable skills while losing some of the instincts, competitiveness and ownership that the game requires?

[Samuel C Mason @CoachSMason22]

@FatherOf4Lunas @erikwagle11 Youth baseball has become an industry. More lessons. More teams. More tournaments. More showcases. More numbers for players and parents to chase.

Some of it is valuable. Some of it is smoke and mirrors.

I wonder if we've started confusing training with actual development.

[John @MrJohnnytokes]

So It’s OK for Snickers to put out a commercial where an old lady gets smashed running up the middle, but it’s not OK for Callaway golf to put out a commercial where a woman gets pushed? What the fuck is going on in our society right now.#Callaway @SNICKERS @CallawayGolf