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[Richard Schenck, The Heretic JFD PPP LQC TTE. 🙂 @Teacherman1986]

When are you ready?

When should you be ready?

Training bat speed is a waste of time.

Volume up.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

After letting a HR, the starting pitcher decided to turn into Ray Lewis and spear the hitter as he was rounding third and heading home.

But the funniest part of this video, is the reaction of announcer. He shows no emotion towards the HR, and even less when a player gets mauled for absolutely no reason 🤣

[YostinNBA @YostinNBA]

Wemby sobre perder luego de estar arriba por casi 30 puntos:

"Tengo solo 22 años y soy multimillonario, creeme que esto no me preocupa en lo absoluto, la vida va más allá de baloncesto. Lo de amargarse se los dejo a ustedes."

Vaya mentalidad. 💀

[Kyle Wagner @GowagsKyle]

Here’s the thing.

To disprove something you don’t need 1,000 examples. You just need one.

[Trey Hannam @TJHannam10]

The thing I wish my 14-year-old self knew earlier.

I made everything bigger than it was.

(This is a life lesson, too)

Every at-bat felt like the whole season was on the line.

Game 7 of the World Series with 50k people watching.

And that's the thing that beat me. Not the pitcher. That exact feeling.

Self-imposed pressure.

You make it up in your head.

The pitch is the only real thing in front of you.

One pitch.
Simple, focused.

Everything else, let it go.

It's this pitch. Then the next one.

Just like you're in the backyard with the boys, where nothing exists but the ball coming in.

Not thinking about girls.
The chores you gotta do.
What's for dinner.

Compete like crazy on that one pitch. Give it everything you've got.

Just don't drag a hundred things into the box that don't need to be there.

One pitch. The only real thing.
Win it, then go win the next one.

That's the advice I've sent to hitters that struggle with the same thing, and it's worked really well.

[Tardimus Maximus @Dabbert0]

@GuntherEagleman @PlotWeaver

[🌧️ @wstgoat7]

Someone just perfectly threw an egg at Wemby LMFAOOO

[Dr. Ismael Gallo DPT, MBA @flowsdoc]

There’s a misconception that pitching is simply a squat… then a lunge.

No.

Those are positions.

The body doesn’t move from static position to static position.

Pitching is a continuous spiral of loading, shifting, rotating, and flowing energy through the system.

When we train positions, we often create robotic movers.

When we train transitions, we develop athletic movers.

The game happens between the positions.

Train TRANSITIONS, not POSITIONS.

[Jake Scott @jscotthitting]

Daniel Jackson Swing Breakdown

One of the best bats to watch at the CWS this year

31 HR and 25 SB as a catcher, he is built different

[Dirt Bro Diamond Training @DirtBroUSA]

Simple drill training to develop soft, “pillow-like” hands in all three glove lanes: neutral, forehand, and backhand.

Using firm, belly-button-high underhand feeds with a real baseball, this drill develops rhythm, tempo, timing, soft touch, and hand-eye coordination.

Adding a second baseball increases the difficulty and challenges even elite players’ hands, focus, and timing.

[Trey Hannam @TJHannam10]

A lot of good hitters have good swings.

But they're not ALL IN.

Their decision making is MAYBE... MAYBE... OH DANG IT.

Instead of YES YES ABSOLUTELY.

(Or YES YES NO when they take a pitch)

Here's something I've told guys when they need it:

"Treat every pitch like it's a hit and run. You HAVE to get the barrel on it. (within reason)

But don't just hit it, DRIVE it. Hit and run, but make it a DRIVE and run."

It's worked great.

If you're good in the cage but underwhelming in the game, this is usually why.

You're not being aggressive enough. You're not all in when you're between the lines.

[KNCT Athletics @KNCTathletics]

Are you obsessed with positions or sequencing?

I think far too many people nowadays are obsessed with positions rather than sequencing. Chasing positions for positions' sake is a fool's errand.

Chase the sequencing and let positions emerge.

@ben_baggett

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Billionaire investor Ron Baron explained the silent math destroying your wealth:

Your money loses 4 to 5% of its purchasing power every single year. The economy grinds higher at roughly 2%. That is a relentless 7% headwind against you, annually.

What that really means. Prices double every 10 to 12 years. Your savings are cut in half in real terms within about 15 years. Cash sitting idle is not safe, it is decaying.

The system is structurally engineered to punish savers and force capital into risk just to survive.

[Jake Scott @jscotthitting]

Turning above the ball

Can be a helpful swing feel for hitters who struggle hitting the high pitch

Great insight from Bregman on how to handle this pitch better

[Jermaine Curtis @JermaineCurtis]

I was hitting with a player today.

The first few rounds weren't great.

He was popping balls up.

Rolling over.

Pulling everything on the ground.

After one round he looked at me and said:

"Hitting a baseball is hard."

I laughed.

Because honestly...

He's not wrong.

Hitting a baseball is very hard.

But I told him:

"Focusing on how hard it is doesn't help you."

Then it reminded me of a conversation I had years ago with Jose Altuve.

I asked him what he thought about when he stepped into the box.

His answer surprised me.

He said:

"There's a lot of green out there."

That was it.

No mechanics.

No secret.

Just:

"There's a lot of green out there."

I never forgot that.

So I looked at the player and said:

"Instead of thinking about how hard hitting is..."

"Think about all the green out there."

The gaps.

The outfield.

The places you're trying to hit the ball.

A funny thing happened.

The next few rounds looked completely different.

Line drives.

Balls into the gaps.

Better swings.

Better results.

Nothing changed physically.

Just what he was focused on.

One thing I've learned in baseball:

You can either choose thoughts that help you or hurt you...

So choose thoughts that help you.

Thank you for reading,
Jermaine Curtis

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@Breaking57 Harassment

[CamWood Bats @CamWoodBats]

Why we love training high tee!

#softball #hitting #hightee

[pulling teeth @OUDENT11]

@TNTransparency Douche bag. Inflammatory, needs his ass beat