@pitchingschool So your coach was not interested in making everyone better? Also sets up an environment where people are scared of making mistakes. We get better by trying and failing and learning.

@CFBcosdawg This was 25 years ago. My HS coach has since passed away. That team went 25-6 so he did a lot of things right.

@pitchingschool I feel so seen, Mike 😂

@pitchingschool One of the most important parts of your preparation. Throw with a purpose. I’m always preaching this. A good catch play gets your mind right for a good practice outcome. #WORKWINS

@pitchingschool Oh damn. I had a teammate get the yips at the start of the season one year in high school. Eventually he got to the point where he'd throw the ball 5 or 6 times and then call it a day. He would have done hundreds of push ups lol. Yips went away on their own after a few weeks.

@pitchingschool We’ve always said we could make cuts in the first 10 minutes of day one if the school would let us.

@pitchingschool The sound of a baseball on a wooden basketball court and the bkeachers with all of the echos and everything is the worst. It can tell you a lot though.

@pitchingschool My HS coach did the same thing. Play catch with a purpose goes to a whole new level when there are pushups involved.

@pitchingschool Burpees for my girls

@pitchingschool If you can't play catch, you CAN'T play baseball

@pitchingschool We did the same but EVERYONE had to do push-ups!! We had one guy who would try to play burnout and sometimes didn’t know where ball was going. 8 times ball hit bleachers. All 8 by him. Also…he was our catcher so lots of extra bases given to teams on overthrows. lol

@pitchingschool If thats still an issue at a highschool level then you grew up in a very tiny town with low competition

@pitchingschool We didn’t have punishments at Elder for bad throws, but everyone knew when they happened, since wood bleachers don’t lie. I think right around 10 baseball bangs was when the running started.