Hindsight just as clear for Nationals with Strasburg
George Brett on the HOF…
Just read a cool article at ESPN about George Brett and what the Baseball Hall of Fame means to him. You can read the article by going here.
George Brett was one of the players I grew up with. As a kid, we did not have cable or internet. I would follow my favorite players the old school way. Sports page in the newspaper (does anyone else remember on Sundays where they would print the complete stats of all the MLB players?) and memorizing the back of all your baseball cards.
I remember having this card of George Brett…
…and this one also!!!!
It’s good to still read articles about childhood baseball heros.
I never threw a…
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation. — Satchel Paige
Baseball Quote of The Day
Holland and Dempster Killing It on Harry Carey
Opening Night! Cardinals at Marlins
CARDINALS LINEUP:
Rafael Furcal (SS)
Carlos Beltran (RF)
Matt Holliday (LF)
Lance Berkman (1B)
David Freese (3B)
Yadier Molina (C)
Jon Jay (CF)
Daniel Descalso (2B)
Kyle Lohse (RHP)
MARLINS LINEUP:
Jose Reyes (SS)
Emilion Bonifacio (CF)
Hanley Ramirez (3B)
Giancarlo Stanton (RF)
Logan Morrison (LF)
Gaby Sanchez (1B)
Omar Infante (2B)
John Buck (C)
Josh Johnson (RHP)
Little League Baseball Players – Conflicts
Being a coach means handling far more than baseball drills and plays. Your little league baseball players will often have conflicts. You deal with the immediate problem but then you need to look at what causes it. 
Coaches often feel that their job is to put out fires. This is one style of management that is effective, but it is not the only one, nor the best one. When two of your players get in a fight, you must put out the fire and break up the fight. However, a good coach will not just leave the situation and assume that the problem is resolved. Every issue that you deal with comes from some larger, underlying problem that you may not have recognized yet. It is your job to discover those tensions and resolve them before they surface in other ways, such as a fight.
Many coaches say that they have so many little issues to deal with that they do not have time to address larger ones, which often cause smaller ones. It is not so important to them to teach their athletes to respect each other, because they need to make sure their players do not sabotage each other in the short term. However, this style of leadership leads to more conflicts, because your players never learn the more important lessons of sports.
When you find yourself in a situation where you have to fix an immediate problem, give yourself time to discover the larger problem as soon as possible. If you do not address the tensions that build within your team, you will have small, frequent explosions that consume your life as a coach.
