Chris Hannah

Girl Dad, Pitching Coach I-5 Snyder 18u, Bullpen Catcher, Recovering Beer League Hockey Player and Rapsodo Certified Pitching Nerd

[Chris Hannah @Pastypoi]

Posting, to do the same. #MJstedtalk

[Jaycob Ammerman @Jammer2233]

I’m going to tweet this & pin it to my page so I can watch it every single day

When MJ talks about winning & leadership has a price, he’s talking about sacrificing a part of who you are for all that your team can become.

A Championship Standard!!

[Kristyn Sandberg @KSandberg23]

Had an athlete about a year ago ask me what colleges she should be emailing. After I gave her my advice I asked why? — I could tell something was up.

She told me her travel coach at the time told her she shouldn’t be emailing D1’s.

—— 🤨

Fastforward to this morning. Said athlete told me she committed to a D1 program.

Beyond proud of this kid for continuing to work and chasing something she wanted.

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, should be putting limitations on what someone can achieve.

[Rachel Coleman @_coachrachel]

The softball world is SMALL!

[Abigail "Abby" Harter @abby__2027]

Summer Season is over and the work keeps going. Thank you @CoachKyleMark for the extra work.
@CoachJVaughan @Coach_E_Miller
@montanez_22 @MichelleFrew7
@Coach_Sen__ @CoachMPMurray
@Humboldt_SB @uhhilosoftball
@cmueaglesSB @Arcadia_SB
@McDsoftball0324 @I5Softball
@tagupSoftball

[Kretz Files @CoachRonKretz]

Your pre-season parent meeting will dictate exactly how much drama you deal with in April.

If you just show up, pass out a schedule, and say "let's have a great year," you are leaving your program wide open to boundary issues, playing-time complaints, and toxic booster culture.

[Chris Hannah @Pastypoi]

Great job, Joey!

[Josselyn Hannah @Joeyhannah2028]

Our run @PGFnetwork Nationals is done but I’m very proud of my contribution over the week. .500 BA, .583 OBP and error free fielding. Now to increase ��‍♀️and 💪 for fall! #slappersrule #2028

[Coach Holden @CSC_SB_Coach]

If you don't message coaches telling them that you are interested in their program, you are telling them you aren't interested in their program. Its just that simple.

[Next Level Baseball @nextlevelbb]

The grinders.
It's easy to want to play at the beginning of the summer.
The dudes that are going to make it in college or pro ball are the dudes that want to start and finish the summer and can't wait for fall ball.

[Chris Hannah @Pastypoi]

Yep

[Aaron Vail @CoachAaronVail]

We are doing a disservice to our youth athletes by giving faux confidence.

Saying “good job”, “it’s ok” or anything else that isn’t truth is reinforcing bad habits, omits accountability & teaches them that not executing what they’ve been trained to do is acceptable.

1. Set a realistic standard.
2. Hold them accountable.
3. When it’s achieved, raise the standard.
4. Do it over & over again.
5. Hold YOURSELF to the same standard.

That’s growth. That’s raising champions for life.

Stop coddling & making excuses for your kids.

We’re raising a generation of unaccountable underachievers who can’t persevere through their errors & deficiencies (which we all make).

#youthsports #accountabilty #resilience

[NIL 𝘯𝘰𝘵 NLI @NILnotNLI]

NCAA college athletics were not meant to be a heavily-subsidized charity for 25-year-old athletes whining to lawyers to fight the rules so they can stay forever and block kids who actually value their free education.

​Like it or not, this is what it’s actually about:

[Chris Hannah @Pastypoi]

@Super70sSports MASH

[Jacob Baca @jbaca_12]

It’s crazy how many sports parents out there ruin opportunities for their kids. That is the group of parents that always blames the coaches and has 0 accountability or self awareness.

[Patrick Jones @pjonesbaseball]

The best player on a travel team...

...isn't always the best college prospect.

That's because college coaches aren't recruiting you to dominate your current level.

They're recruiting who they believe will succeed at their level.

That's a big difference.

Your batting average tells them what you've done.

Your movement helps them project what you'll become.

How you move.

Your bat speed.
Your athleticism.
Your body control.
Your arm action.
Your footwork.

Those things often matter just as much as the numbers on GameChanger.

College coaches aren't just evaluating today's player.

They're evaluating tomorrow's.

[Logan Cypher @thelogancypher]

Not sure if this is a hot take, but high school athletes creating graphics and posts saying they are entering the “transfer portal” to go to another high school for sports is cringe and a pretty dumb concept.

[Marsha Frese @CoachFrese]

We need to have a real discussion about what travel ball is costing the average parent. In cities with sky high hotel costs. Parents hang in there.

[Chris Hannah @Pastypoi]

@GoldyHappens Curious.. why is he a clubhouse cancer, aside from performance?

[Marty McDonald @Coach_MartyBall]

The world of college softball is changing & JUCO will play a big role going forward. In the past, if you mentioned JUCO to a softball player or parent, they got offended like it's a 4-letter swear word or admission of failure.

Parents, you have 2 break that mindset starting now

[Coach Hill @CoachMarcusHill]

Hot take: nobody “develops” players. Players develop players. Coaches and programs give them the tools and the knowledge (like a facility, weightroom, coaching, practices, games) but nobody can develop a player. The player has to develop the player.

[Coach Hill @CoachMarcusHill]

Zero percent of parents criticizing high school baseball coaches would do the amount of shit a high school coach does for the same money. Zero percent.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Chris Williamson's brutal wake-up call in 46 seconds:

“Adults don't exist.”

He runs down the list:

- Steve Jobs delayed pancreatic cancer treatment for carrot juice and acupuncture.

- Mozart drowned in debt, constantly begging friends for money.

- Nietzsche caught syphilis in a brothel and sold only 300 copies of his work in his lifetime.

- Martin Luther King had affairs with over 40 women and spent his last night with two of them.

- Isaac Newton wasted 30 years on alchemy pseudoscience his heirs hid out of embarrassment.

The point lands hard:
Don't put any adult on a pedestal.
Kill your gurus.
The adults aren't going to save you — they don't even exist.

Raw, unflinching, and impossible to unhear.

Which "hero" or guru did you once idolize… until you learned the messy truth behind them?

[Coach Beede @CoachBeede]

Your son's summer coach talks to college coaches more often than you think. The reference he gives is built into Tuesday practices, not Friday tournaments. Your son should act accordingly all week.