Frozen Ropes

Tony Abbatine has some ideas for how youth baseball could improve by letting the players do more and the coaches and parents do less.

From the tyrannical coach to the parent that never made it past little league that now obsesses in getting their child to the big leagues, the events in youth baseball and softball could be plucked from a reality television series.

Player development at every level is better today because of recent technology and the measurables generated from “under the hood” intel on swings and pitching deliveries.

Visual psychology is about performance strategies, but only for athletes who play with their eyes open.

We complain about it and see it every day in others and we have become immune to how much, we ourselves, have fallen prey to the disease. I present to you Phonomaladritis, the lingering social and medical sickness of extended phone dependency.

How different would you play each game if you thought of it as the finale?