Comments on: Where Do Great Baseball Players Come From? http://baseballtips.com/weblog/2009/06/25/where-do-great-baseball-players-come-from/ Coach JP's Clubhouse Blog Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:21:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Coach JP http://baseballtips.com/weblog/2009/06/25/where-do-great-baseball-players-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-788 Coach JP Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:58:12 +0000 http://baseballtips.com/weblog/?p=222#comment-788 Good stuff Don! Many thanks for your even finding my blog. Hope you will continue to preach your words of encouragement and experience. Too much play and not the practice reinforcement that it takes on a weekly basis sure leads to some shortened career-paths either through injury or a lack of rapid improvement. Too many talented kids think they will make it just because they are better than their team mates. Some of the best talent I ever saw never got out of A-Ball. Just had one of my HS kids get released from Rookie ball after 2 seasons...and he's better than that! Now, who wants a kid who's been cut from Rookie Ball...doesn't say much to the other 29 pro teams though I have actually chided a Blue Jays scout into taking a look at him in Arizona this fall... and that longshot is simply "a look" & due to my personal interest and connections. Dads just have to "get it"... this kid needs something he may or may not have gotten along the way...I'd never want to leave that to chance for my own... but I cannot help more than the isolated case so...maybe with some rants and raves from you..and i...we can find and help a few more of these kids Who knows, maybe you'd be interested in contributing some articles for us to publish? The pays sucks...we don't...but the recognition is certainly there. <strong>OUR NEWSLETTER:</strong> http://baseballtips.com/newsletter/index.html We publish a newsletter 1 time per week most of the year...every other week at this true off season. We then place the best of these articles on our site for kids and coaches to see. It is free of charge and is my "gove back" to the baseball community. After all and especially in this economy...there are lots of dads of talented ballplayers who cannot afford a pitching machine or other tool for their own right now...so why shouldn't they get some free knowledge until times improve. My email is coach@baseballtips.com if you'd have interest in discussing further. Coach JP Good stuff Don!
Many thanks for your even finding my blog.
Hope you will continue to preach your words of encouragement and experience.
Too much play and not the practice reinforcement that it takes on a weekly basis sure leads to some shortened career-paths either through injury or a lack of rapid improvement.

Too many talented kids think they will make it just because they are better than their team mates.
Some of the best talent I ever saw never got out of A-Ball.

Just had one of my HS kids get released from Rookie ball after 2 seasons…and he’s better than that! Now, who wants a kid who’s been cut from Rookie Ball…doesn’t say much to the other 29 pro teams though I have actually chided a Blue Jays scout into taking a look at him in Arizona this fall… and that longshot is simply “a look” & due to my personal interest and connections.

Dads just have to “get it”… this kid needs something he may or may not have gotten along the way…I’d never want to leave that to chance for my own… but I cannot help more than the isolated case so…maybe with some rants and raves from you..and i…we can find and help a few more of these kids

Who knows, maybe you’d be interested in contributing some articles for us to publish?
The pays sucks…we don’t…but the recognition is certainly there.

OUR NEWSLETTER:
http://baseballtips.com/newsletter/index.html

We publish a newsletter 1 time per week most of the year…every other week at this true off season.
We then place the best of these articles on our site for kids and coaches to see. It is free of charge and is my “gove back” to the baseball community.
After all and especially in this economy…there are lots of dads of talented ballplayers who cannot afford a pitching machine or other tool for their own right now…so why shouldn’t they get some free knowledge until times improve.

My email is coach@baseballtips.com if you’d have interest in discussing further.

Coach JP

]]> By: Don Ervin http://baseballtips.com/weblog/2009/06/25/where-do-great-baseball-players-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-582 Don Ervin Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:25:33 +0000 http://baseballtips.com/weblog/?p=222#comment-582 Coach JP, No truer words have ever been spoken,Absolutely the best advice any ball player or for that matter coaches, athletes, parents in all sports should take heed to,[PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO,]practice diligently and constructively on a regular schedule what I call "My minimum, perpetual cycle learning system"which allows a person to learn faster and consistently retain more knowledge, by allowing one to be on and remain on a successful learning curve, My system is very simple, put your practice sessions on a three day time frame"MON,""WED,""FRi,"etc. on a day off a day on routine with only two days off at any given time during each cycle week, If a person chooses to one can work out on the off days also, I use this minimum type system for lessons and charge accordingly, which encourages more regular coach,student contact, teaching and learning time,I certainly am not for these indoor systems of charging 35to50 dollars per. half hr.once per. wk. with no price adjustment to encourage more regular perpetual retaineable learning curve time, taking one 30 minute lesson per. week is a total waste of time and money without regular assistance in between lessons, too many people attempt to be their own coach or their parents attempt to futilely do so and all they do is tinker, change this, change that and accomplish absolutely nothing except getting everything all confused more so than before. I also firmly believe that parents,players and coaches in particular need to get their heads out of their buns and eliminate some of the games and/or tournament play and get back to some good old fashion almost forgotten practice sessions and get to work on their game and individual skills and get back to learning how to play the game of baseball how it was originally invented to be played,you simply cannot do so by playing only without practice,I mentioned this to a parent and he said,well, they all want to win,a totally asanine statement in my opinion,so called coaches are lazy and they totally lack the most important coaching aspect of all,[THE TEACHING ASPECT]before one comes even close to becoming a good coach one must first learn how to teach his/her athletes at least basically what they need to accomplish in their quest to becoming successful within their sport,again your comments hit the nose right on the nose, all who read your comments, [TAKE NOTICE AND ACT POSITIVELY TO THEM]. Enough said. Don Ervin kom_ervin@yahoo.com Coach JP,
No truer words have ever been spoken,Absolutely the best advice any ball player or for that matter coaches, athletes, parents in all sports should take heed to,[PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO,]practice diligently and constructively on a regular schedule what I call “My minimum, perpetual cycle learning system”which allows a person to learn faster and consistently retain more knowledge, by allowing one to be on and remain on a successful learning curve, My system is very simple, put your practice sessions on a three day time frame”MON,”"WED,”"FRi,”etc. on a day off a day on routine with only two days off at any given time during each cycle week, If a person chooses to one can work out on the off days also, I use this minimum type system for lessons and charge accordingly, which encourages more regular coach,student contact, teaching and learning time,I certainly am not for these indoor systems of charging 35to50 dollars per. half hr.once per. wk. with no price adjustment to encourage more regular perpetual retaineable learning curve time, taking one 30 minute lesson per. week is a total waste of time and money without regular assistance in between lessons, too many people attempt to be their own coach or their parents attempt to futilely do so and all they do is tinker, change this, change that and accomplish absolutely nothing except getting everything all confused more so than before.
I also firmly believe that parents,players and coaches in particular need to get their heads out of their buns and eliminate some of the games and/or tournament play and get back to some good old fashion almost forgotten practice sessions and get to work on their game and individual skills and get back to learning how to play the game of baseball how it was originally invented to be played,you simply cannot do so by playing only without practice,I mentioned this to a parent and he said,well, they all want to win,a totally asanine statement in my opinion,so called coaches are lazy and they totally lack the most important coaching aspect of all,[THE TEACHING ASPECT]before one comes even close to becoming a good coach one must first learn how to teach his/her athletes at least basically what they need to accomplish in their quest to becoming successful within their sport,again your comments hit the nose right on the nose, all who read your comments, [TAKE NOTICE AND ACT POSITIVELY TO THEM].
Enough said.
Don Ervin
kom_ervin@yahoo.com

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