Posted by: jlp (james.pohl@kiski.org) on Sun Jan 12 08:13:30 2003

It's clear to me that most of you are still searching and that's O.K. My guess is that most of you teach hitting, but never demonstrate the technique yourself. It would be advisable for all of you to choose your method of instruction and apply them in game situations, under the pressure you must put your pupils under. Most of you couldn't hit your way out of a paper bag, yet you advocate certain principles that seem to make sense to you. I am not at liberty to state my backround and name (that's why I'm Coach C), due to the nature of this site, however I will tell you under different circumstances I would love to watch each of you face superior pitching at the highest level, so I could get a good laugh. I've got one boy in the Majors right now and another one coming, who's much better. I teach travel baseball now for kids because I love watching kids get better. I chime in from time to time because I love the game and love to hear the rederick. In my opinion we have very few similarities, but I still love to talk about it. None of my sons would have made it with the Epstein jibberish, Jack and I differ in our philosophy...in that I think the arms start the swing and the legs support the arms. I think it works because my Sons thank me almost daily. They are living the life I wanted for them... the one I wish I would have had with the proper instruction as a kid, instead I played golf for a living. I learned through my failures as a baseball hitter and passed on my lessons to the boys, as they grew older. Most of you have never fixed your own mistakes, and that makes you not qualified to teach hitting in my opinion.
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> > The sad part is that most of you do!
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> Coach Whoever
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> Are you serious? Can anyone really have an ego that fragile and an attitude that condescending? Do you really need to make other people feel so bad in order to justify yourself?
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> First, you tell everyone that they are hopeless.
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> Then, you brag on yourself and your children. Of course, we can't verify any of it. But that's not the point. If you have coached successful players, you certainly failed to learn any of the grace of a champion in the process.
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> Next, we hear about your own athletic career. I guess the rest of us are just motor morons. By the way, I know for a fact that there are the following people posting here regularly: the all-time batting champion of a major SEC Division I univerisity; a former professional who has on videotape that many of us have seen demonstrated an elite, MLB swing; several former NAIA and Division III players who have had successful career after schoo, including one who played four years professionally in Europe and one is considered the most dangerous hitter in most every national adult amateur tournament he plays in Florida.
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> You don't hear them bragging on themselves or cutting others down.
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> One of your final comments is probably half true. "They are living the life I wished for them." That probably means the life you wished you lived. You didn't, had gifted children and are taking out your foolish frustrations and false sense of superiority on anonynomous people.
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> Melvin

Melvin,
I would second your views on this poster. I have nothing but the utmost respect and esteem for those who are honestly seeking the truth, but, Lord, spare me from the arrogance,self-righteousness, and condescension of those who have found it!
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