Posted by: Scott W. (stwinton@netzero.net) on Thu Nov 10 09:14:19 2005

You got the ‘internet nerd’ part right.

You logic is lame at best. Let me get it strait, your saying lots of kids take up baseball every year and only a few make it to the big leagues because the coaching they received is outdated and flawed? Please tell me your joking if this is what you are claiming…?!

Die hard batspeed.com guys and rotational mechanic followers are akin to a bunch of internet guys getting together and claiming they found a cure for cancer, attempting to charge for it, then claiming the medical science establishment is just to outdated and convoluted to take them seriously.

To say that baseball is too ‘old school’ to take on successful new ideas is false (key word being proven and successful)…you only need to look at the Oakland A’s to see how Billy Bean has changed the landscape of convention baseball wisdom regarding offense, OB%, what types of guys to draft, as well as a list of about 10 other major changes to your ‘old school’ conventional baseball thinking that proceeded him.

This is a multi-million dollar industry where an increase in bat speed and homerun production is the difference between not having to ever work again and scrapping by, yet your going to sit by and tell me that baseball is to stuck in its ways to be open to a new concept and approach to hitting…that there is this giant conspiracy plotting against rotational mechanics from the linear diehards…? Or, a simpler explanation, its not a sound technique. Huummmm?

Achems Razor –the simplest solution is probably the right one, the simplest explanation is usually the right one.


> Gag. Give me the names of all those great European hitters you've developed.
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> I've spent 5 years reading and studying video and teaching my sons. And I'll debate you any time you want. Get the video clips, the dictionary, and the science manuals and lets have at it.
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> Your problem is that a bunch of internet nerds know more than you. Espcially insulting since you claim 30 years in baseballl and don't know any more than you do. Then, you encounter the cyber guys who put you to shame.
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> The best proof that they can do it but don't know what they are doing is organized baseball's track record. How many 25 year old hitters are there in the bigs right now? Well, hundreds of thousands, if not millions take up baseball each year as first time little leaguers. Their coaches have been influenced by the pros teachings for years. And that is what they teach. Yet, of the hundred's of thousands that take up baseball this year, around 20 will be playing in the big leagues 20 years from now. Now that's a hell of a track record.
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> Actually, considering the bull shit they teach that's a hell of a number. But, what would the number be if they were taught the truth.