Things you can do as an athlete:
- beat your wife
- abuse your kids
- run from the cops
- do insane amounts of drugs
- go to strip clubs
- bet on games
Things you can’t do as an athlete:
- Support the current President
I signed to UCLA my junior year of high school and was told I was going to start Day 1.
Opening Day at UCLA?
I was sitting the bench. 😭
I had 2 choices:
1. Complain, pout, and blame the coaches
OR
2. Find the holes on the team and become valuable.
So for 3 weeks, I sat the bench.
I showed up early.
Stayed late.
Cheered for my teammates.
Dragged the field every 3rd inning.
Meanwhile, I studied the team.
The middle infielders were doing well.
Third base wasn’t.
So I told the coaches:
“I can play third.”
Then I noticed something else:
Offensively, we were either hitting home runs or getting out.
I saw the gap.
If I could become a tough out, get on base, and bring energy to the team…
I could create value.
Then we played Miami.
The starting third baseman was hitting .115.
They gave me a shot.
I went 2 for 3 with a walk.
Played solid defense.
Brought energy.
I never sat the bench again.
Eventually, I became team captain…
and we were ranked #1 in the country.
One thing baseball taught me:
Opportunities don’t always go to the most talented player.
Sometimes they go to the player who becomes the most valuable.
There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs!
An incredibly unjust double-standard!
@Seth_3773 Umpire had already lost his cool the second he went towards the coach he was in the wrong. He was looking for confrontation very unprofessional.
Remember when Woody Harrelson joked about Big Pharma buying up the media and using it to coerce people into taking their drugs, and the very next day the media attacked him in unison, proving him totally correct?
Hypothetical: You’re the owner of an MLB team. I offer to take $0 salary and sign a minor league contract and go to Low A.
If the “he sucks now” crowd is right and I get lit up, you cut me, lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
If the “clubhouse cancer” crowd is right, you see it immediately at Low A and cut me. You lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
If there’s massive negative PR, which we already know there won��t be, you just cut me and move on. The story is dead in a couple days, you lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.
But, assuming none of those things happen, which they obviously wouldn’t, if you like what you see, you can promote me to AA and re evaluate me there. Then AAA. Then the big leagues. If I earn it, which you’d be 100% in control of deciding. If you don’t think I’m good enough, you lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
You could take away my “antics”. You could take away my social media. You could ask anything of me. If I don’t comply, you cut me, lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.
What logical reason is there to not do this? At worst, you cut me and there’s no risk to the big league club. At best, you get a Cy Young winner for $0 who you know can still pitch and could help the big league team if and when you see fit.
INFURIATING and HEARTBREAKING: This sweet little girl, Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, was r*ped, t-rtured her for hours and executed by illegal aliens from Venezuela.
Police say she fought for her life against the two grown men, biting and scratching one so badly that one still had visible marks at arrest.
Jocelyn Nungaray - say her name. REPOST this and wake people up. Her life mattered.
#thinblueline #Lawenforcement
@nextlevelbb Ive been saying this for 10 years…. The art of pitching is forgotten by most , or some college coaches think they can teach command later . Ill take a pitcher 10/10 over a thrower everyday
@CoachSwit I know many in our area, what makes it worse is when a parent is on the staff as a pitching coach …… who is left to advocate for the kid …..