Archive for September, 2008


The Day I Robbed Jeter

It was a bright, sunny mid-January morning at the Yankee minor league complex here in Tampa. I had grabbed a random catcher’s mitt and was sh agging BP for some big leaguers taking some extra hacks with a couple of other coaches. Posada, O’Neil, Jeter and someone else were taking turns at the dish. I’m [...]

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Baseball Coaching: Am-Rays-zing Results!

The Rays are just the tip of the iceberg today, read on and believe… Beyond the outcome of last night’s game, tune into this: Hero of the game? Pena with a 3 run HR in the 14th. ** But before that he struck out TWICE… in extra innings! ** Then comes back and goes with [...]

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Baseball Coaching: Are the Rays Choking?

Just a few days after I said the Rays won’t choke they’ve now lost 6 of 7 and there 5.5 game lead is down to .5. Choking? I don’t know. Maybe. But they’ve run into some great pitching. They’re still missing two of their best players (3B Longoria, CF Crawford) and their closer is a [...]

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Baseball Training: Focus Like Luke Skywalker

Focus is THE master skill of superior performance,Tom. (of really poor performance as well, actually). In my coaching of players, coaches and business executives, I often refer to one movie clip. One of the best movie clips of all time in my opinion. It provides a beautiful metaphor for what we each have to do [...]

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