How 'bout dem Philly's!!! How 'bout dat Moyer!
Congrats to Jamie and the Philly's. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy and a better team.
Look forward to seeing you all this Saturday at the Strike Zone for hitting. We will practice from 4:00 to 5:30. Come ready to work hard.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Meeting Change
It is something we hoped would happen but we have learned through the years to go on with life through a possible playoff season and you never know. BUT this year we know WE ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!! YEAH JAMIE AND PHILLIES!
So needless to say because Karen and Jamie run the mandatory parent/player meeting scheduled for Sunday, October 26 we have to reschedule!!! WE ARE RESCHEDULING THIS MEETING for Sunday, November 9 6:30pm Magnolia Community Center. We will have a major “garage sale” of old MBC merchandise so bring your check books. And we’ll need all paperwork from the website to be filled out and all player fees paid in full by this meeting.
In the meantime the new Fall/Winter workouts are posted on the http://www.magnoliabaseballclub.com/ website.
Thanks for understanding this last minute change. CHEER US ON FROM SEATTLE and be proud of Old Man Moyer. When he was your age he watched the Philadelphia Phillies in a World Series Parade and had the same dream for himself someday. Here he is at 45 living his dream. You too can dream big and let MBC help you get there! See you Nov 9!!!!
So needless to say because Karen and Jamie run the mandatory parent/player meeting scheduled for Sunday, October 26 we have to reschedule!!! WE ARE RESCHEDULING THIS MEETING for Sunday, November 9 6:30pm Magnolia Community Center. We will have a major “garage sale” of old MBC merchandise so bring your check books. And we’ll need all paperwork from the website to be filled out and all player fees paid in full by this meeting.
In the meantime the new Fall/Winter workouts are posted on the http://www.magnoliabaseballclub.com/ website.
Thanks for understanding this last minute change. CHEER US ON FROM SEATTLE and be proud of Old Man Moyer. When he was your age he watched the Philadelphia Phillies in a World Series Parade and had the same dream for himself someday. Here he is at 45 living his dream. You too can dream big and let MBC help you get there! See you Nov 9!!!!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Just a Thought
Baseball and your approach to baseball can be a great gift to you in other aspects of your life. You guys know the work and dedication it takes to improve at the game and you know the satisfaction that success brings when the effort and practice pay off in game performance. It feels so good to get that hit or to make that play. We understand the connection to working hard and reaping the rewards in baseball.
Just a thought, but can you see other areas in your life where this can happen?
School work. Yes school work. Same things apply. Just as none of you expect to go 4-4 and play error less baseball without practicing the game, how can you expect to attain a superior understanding of the classroom material and ace that test if you do not put in the time and effort.
I have to admit, I was (and think I still am) a competitive guy. If I was going to do something, I was going to do something well. I never liked to do poorly and would look for every edge to do better, at everything I was asked, or even forced to do. If I had to do it, I was going to do it well.
Life is better when things go well.
The same formula that works for baseball works for school.
Want to get better at something - devote more time to it. Prepare so you can perform. Pitchers do better ahead in the count - read ahead of the class. Not understanding something about the game (subject)- ask your coach (teacher). Need help with some part of your game - do extra drills to make up for that skill. Just as you can observe and mimic players that are succeeding, you can also observe and mimic students that are doing better (AND I DO NOT MEAN COPY THEIR PAPERS!).
Want to be better than the average player (student)? Everybody goes to practice (class), what do you do in between practices (classes) - what do you do on YOUR OWN!
Would you not be insulted if someone said "you are good at baseball because it just comes easy to you"
Do not insult good students by thinking that it comes easy to them. Be like them and start getting your work done.
And here is my final word on the subject.
I played with players that had great talent
I played with players that had great work habits
I played with players that had great talent AND great work habits
All of the above guys were good players. Only the last set MADE IT in pro baseball.
In school some people are inherently smarter than others.
Some people work harder than others
Some people are smarter and work harder, these people become rocket scientists
You can succeed in school without being a rocket scientist. Start working harder. Don't EVER let anyone out work you.
Just a thought, but can you see other areas in your life where this can happen?
School work. Yes school work. Same things apply. Just as none of you expect to go 4-4 and play error less baseball without practicing the game, how can you expect to attain a superior understanding of the classroom material and ace that test if you do not put in the time and effort.
I have to admit, I was (and think I still am) a competitive guy. If I was going to do something, I was going to do something well. I never liked to do poorly and would look for every edge to do better, at everything I was asked, or even forced to do. If I had to do it, I was going to do it well.
Life is better when things go well.
The same formula that works for baseball works for school.
Want to get better at something - devote more time to it. Prepare so you can perform. Pitchers do better ahead in the count - read ahead of the class. Not understanding something about the game (subject)- ask your coach (teacher). Need help with some part of your game - do extra drills to make up for that skill. Just as you can observe and mimic players that are succeeding, you can also observe and mimic students that are doing better (AND I DO NOT MEAN COPY THEIR PAPERS!).
Want to be better than the average player (student)? Everybody goes to practice (class), what do you do in between practices (classes) - what do you do on YOUR OWN!
Would you not be insulted if someone said "you are good at baseball because it just comes easy to you"
Do not insult good students by thinking that it comes easy to them. Be like them and start getting your work done.
And here is my final word on the subject.
I played with players that had great talent
I played with players that had great work habits
I played with players that had great talent AND great work habits
All of the above guys were good players. Only the last set MADE IT in pro baseball.
In school some people are inherently smarter than others.
Some people work harder than others
Some people are smarter and work harder, these people become rocket scientists
You can succeed in school without being a rocket scientist. Start working harder. Don't EVER let anyone out work you.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
MBC 13's To Visit U of W Cages
You will all soon find out, if my actions haven't given it away already, that I suffer from a terrible handicap called CALENDER IMPAIRMENT. In my haste to get away last weekend, and my guilt of missing a weekend to work out, I made the WRONG assumption that our next opportunity to work out would be the weekend of the mandatory player/parent meeting.
The good news is that we have one more weekend before that meeting and I intend to use it! The EXCITING news is that this weekend I have a special treat in store for the team.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 19 at 3:00 we will all meet at the University of Washington baseball field. We will watch the current Husky baseball team play some of their annual intra-squad World Series and then go into the hitting barn out in the left field corner and hit in the cages.
These cages are great. As a Seattle U alumni we were allowed to take pre-game (US vs SU alumni game) BP in these cages. The really great aspect of these cages is that there are FOUR video cameras on you as you hit. The cameras are on a delay. After you hit your round you are then able to come out and watch yourself from four different angles. It is quite an impressive training tool. One can be told over and over of a mechanical flaw in their swing BUT seeing is believing and is the fastest way to embrace instruction.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Baseball Conditioning
I have received some question regarding baseball conditioning. Let me preface this with the comment THAT I AM NO EXPERT in either the conditioning that is best for baseball or any conditioning for that matter. But here are the thoughts I have based on old wives tales, dugout lore and personal folk medical training.
My take on it all is that there are certain do's and don'ts for baseball players.
My biggest belief is that if weights are involved you want light wieghts/many reps. Rather that lift something that you strain to do five times, lift something that you can do 15 or 20 reps. You want long lean muscles, not Hulk Hogan like muscles.
Traits needed for baseball are strength in hands, torso and speed. Aerobic and endurance are helpful (more so for pitchers) but not really a prime goal when one is thinking specifically of baseball.
Do's
Areas of the body that are key to develop for baseball
Grip - wrist, forearms and hands
Torso - abs, hips and chest
Legs - quads, hamstrings and calves
Exercises that develop these areas are good keys to work on.
Goals that you are looking for in training are
Increase in balance
Strength of hands
Core strength
Quickness of motion
Don'ts
I have always been told, and am a big believer in AVOIDING exercises in which one is pushing up with weights from the shoulder, i.e. military press or anything with weights going above the head.
The shoulder need strengthening but this should be done with VERY light weights and massive repetitions. I like surgical tubing and lightweight medicine balls tossed against a wall, ala soccer throw ins.
Simple things that ANYONE can do
Grip
Squeezing balls
Light weights (cans) on a rope on a dowel; roll the weight up, roll the weight down
Torso
There are a million things out there for the abs, unfortunately most involve crunches,
sit-ups and all those things we hate - but there are tons of web sited devoted to the abs
Quickness
Wind sprints
Jumping up and down to a step - ply-o-metrics
Dots on the ground - quick step routines
Cannot beat 52 pick-up - will demonstrate at the next practice
-great for quick feet and developing perfect fielding position for ground balls
My take on it all is that there are certain do's and don'ts for baseball players.
My biggest belief is that if weights are involved you want light wieghts/many reps. Rather that lift something that you strain to do five times, lift something that you can do 15 or 20 reps. You want long lean muscles, not Hulk Hogan like muscles.
Traits needed for baseball are strength in hands, torso and speed. Aerobic and endurance are helpful (more so for pitchers) but not really a prime goal when one is thinking specifically of baseball.
Do's
Areas of the body that are key to develop for baseball
Grip - wrist, forearms and hands
Torso - abs, hips and chest
Legs - quads, hamstrings and calves
Exercises that develop these areas are good keys to work on.
Goals that you are looking for in training are
Increase in balance
Strength of hands
Core strength
Quickness of motion
Don'ts
I have always been told, and am a big believer in AVOIDING exercises in which one is pushing up with weights from the shoulder, i.e. military press or anything with weights going above the head.
The shoulder need strengthening but this should be done with VERY light weights and massive repetitions. I like surgical tubing and lightweight medicine balls tossed against a wall, ala soccer throw ins.
Simple things that ANYONE can do
Grip
Squeezing balls
Light weights (cans) on a rope on a dowel; roll the weight up, roll the weight down
Torso
There are a million things out there for the abs, unfortunately most involve crunches,
sit-ups and all those things we hate - but there are tons of web sited devoted to the abs
Quickness
Wind sprints
Jumping up and down to a step - ply-o-metrics
Dots on the ground - quick step routines
Cannot beat 52 pick-up - will demonstrate at the next practice
-great for quick feet and developing perfect fielding position for ground balls
Time to Gather
Sunday - October 26 at 6:30 there is a mandatory parent/player meeting at the Magnolia Community Center. This is the evening in which we provide information on expectations of players and parents for the upcoming season, do some organizing and give everyone a chance to meet and greet one another.
Also at this time I would like to formally put out one of my plans for team bonding. Each year I like to gather the team together for a bowling outing. This outing is a great chance for the guys on the team to meet one another in a non-baseball scenario and give them a better chance of goofing off together and getting to know each other better. The point is to get everyone together at one time, and unlike other off-season obligations I try to make this the one time EVERYONE can make it, barring last minute emergencies. This event can take place at anytime but I need your help. Please be prepared to have some idea of your schedule when we meet on 10/26 and hopefully we can come up with a date and time that evening for this social gathering.
Also at this time I would like to formally put out one of my plans for team bonding. Each year I like to gather the team together for a bowling outing. This outing is a great chance for the guys on the team to meet one another in a non-baseball scenario and give them a better chance of goofing off together and getting to know each other better. The point is to get everyone together at one time, and unlike other off-season obligations I try to make this the one time EVERYONE can make it, barring last minute emergencies. This event can take place at anytime but I need your help. Please be prepared to have some idea of your schedule when we meet on 10/26 and hopefully we can come up with a date and time that evening for this social gathering.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
