Was It Ever A Long Saturday

Yes, I know that it has taken me longer than I thought it would to get to this post but I will be honest with you, I didn't want to post it. We had an 8am game that did not end well and a 4pm game that was just down right ugly on our part.

If there has been a positive come out of this past weekend, I think that there may be a couple of boys who may want to stand up and be leaders. We need that badly. In those 2 games I think I heard 3 words from the team while they were on the field. No communication, no emotion. It was just nothingness from them. I think we have had a few good practices but another one of our teams' character flaws is not getting to practice. There is usually the same group of 6-7 players that tend to make it to practice most of the time with only one kid who has never missed. Granted, I know it is fall baseball and you sometimes have other things to do, but there still has to remain some sort of commitment to this team. Fall ball is a time to learn and prepare for the next year, but if you are never at practice this is hard to accomplish.

All in all, I think this team is growing. Unfortunately we only have 6 games left to try to savage a better season. I'm not saying we have to win every game, just that our team shows up and does the job they are capable to doing.

I am going to close with a few quotes from one of my favorite coaches of all time, Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke Blue Devils:

"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."

"Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it."

"Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication."

"When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team."

"The worse the crisis, the more people will tend to think as individuals rather than as members of a team."

More games to come Friday and Saturday. I hope to have a lot of positive to report.