My sister teaches 5th grade.
Tells me they got a student who moved from Japan
all he does in his free time is dry reps of his pitching delivery
And he apparently throws 65 as a 10 year old (good for those asking)
I’m continuously intrigued by Asian Baseball Culture.
Some dudes in college would literally drink 4 nights out of the week IN SEASON and still hit .400+ or win 10+ games.
For all the super-domed health optimizers
Your whoop score doesn’t give you Dawg
The greatest lesson I ever learned about dealing with pressure…
Came from a, Landscaper???
One of my best friends, college teammate and roommate once sent our team a message before we played one of the biggest series of the season
The message still sticks with me today:
“Any
Best part about college baseball is seeing a kid do something spectacular like this
And then knowing he rode his bike back to an off campus apartment with a bag of team issued, postgame Bojangles ready to rip a few games of Fortnite before bed.
Screw your “Optimal Preparation Routine”
In late 2022 Jacob Degrom was coming off a shoulder injury that kept him off the mound for 4 months.
Seeing that his first start of the year would come less than 20 miles from where I lived, I made the split decision to go see Degoat in
Things you’ll find at any mid-major college baseball game (THREAD):
⁃Third baseman that wears double wrist tape, no batting gloves, plays sick defense and only hits oppo gap doubles
⁃Reliever with <5 innings on the year coming out to “gods gonna cut you down”
I have many regrets from my college years:
The biggest one probably being my inability to sell out for my perceived goal.
From the time I was 5, all I wanted to do was play professional baseball.
In high school I trained hard. I had no direction, but the work ethic was
Blue Jays Starter Alek Manoah was an All-Star in 2022.
This week, he was demoted to the complex in Florida after a rough start to 2023.
Here is the REAL reason he is struggling this season:
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