“Once I get behind the wheel I’m fine.” Ever hear a drunk guy say that? It can certainly seem true when you’re the guy (so I’m told). Pitching and hitting can both be like that, too. “I’m fine, let’s go,” says the spiraling player as he puts his body in position for the next pitch. [...]

“It’s the hardest thing I do.” Coaches: I’m sure you know what a fellow coach would be talking about if you heard him say this (even if you hadn’t read the title of this email). Parents and players, empathize with a coach for a moment. I got a message from a Gym member over the [...]

Another exciting night of action for the Jewish Community Center Fighting Crusaders last night.And another night of Inner Game fun for me. I hit a scud missile shot past the second baseman in my first AB, but in my second I swung at a bad pitch, swung too hard, and lifted a fly to the [...]

The moment it left my hand I knew it was over. I hadn’t walked anyone in 8 innings of pitching (slowpitch, co-ed), but as the ball arced toward home plate,well, actually, away from home plate, I knew I’d walked thebatter. I also knew it was a woman. A women who couldn’t hit it outof the [...]

Story Time: A doctor, a lawyer and an engineer were sentenced to bebe-headed by a guillotine. The doctor was first. “Do you want to face the blade orface away from the blade?” the guard asked him. “I’ll face the blade!” the doctor said defiantly and thecrowd roared with approval. He put his head in the [...]

Pitching is the most important part of baseball, so I’ve devoted a lot of attention to it and I get asked a lot of questions about it. Questions like: “How can I constantly be locked in on throwing every pitch and how can I learn how to block everything else out?”Dan, CA “I have to [...]

I just hung up with a guy who invested in the full year ofthe Baseball Confidence Gym. As we chatted he talked abouthis son, a pitcher… “Mistakes get to him. His eyes sort of glaze over. “Last year he gave up a HR on a change up and he wasthinking about that pitch the rest [...]

Today I’ll dip into the mail bag. Here’s one from NewJersey: ————–Tom, I have always been a good hitter. I hit .456 as a freshman, .357 as a sophmore (with a broken finger….long story), and I didn’t play my junioryear because of injury. My summer team made it to the WorldSeries in New Mexico after [...]