“The polite way of saying it is that he lacks confidence.”“Give him some.” In the you suck video rant I mentioned the need to have confidence as a player, and as a student. Where does […]
Category: attitude
Tailoring the game to your talents
An extended quote from the book Moneyball, about the baseball player Scott Hatteberg, and his approach to hitting, and his experiences with the lavishly funded Boston Red Sox and the meagerly funded Oakland As organizations: […]
Very occasional quote of the day: getting fired
“There’s been times when I was fired from gigs because, lets say I had the ability to get my foot in the door, but wasn’t living up to the expectations that people had. In that […]
Confidence
“Hello. Good evening. Hope I’m Funny.”-Richard Pryor, That N___’s Crazy “So who’s that big dumb ass out there on the hill?” “That’s Steve Carlton. He’s maybe the greatest left-hander in the history of the game. […]
Garrison soldier / combat soldier
There were four platoons in the company, and of them all, Second Platoon was considered the best-trained and in some ways the worst-disciplined. The platoon had a reputation for producing terrible garrison soldiers— men who […]
Feelings and things you can’t do
Taking a little break from working on the 2018 Book of the Blog, musing about different stages of attitudes about players who can do things you can’t: I want to be able to do that! Beginning, […]
Truth and negativity
This has been sitting in my drafts folder awhile— some thoughts on an older piece from George Colligan’s Jazz Truth blog, a collection of thoughts about negativity, positivity, realism, “telling it like it is”, and […]