First baseball practice ~ Klinge

Sunday, May 19, 2013

First baseball practice

Kelly

This morning was Miles' first baseball practice. It was pretty warm already by 9:30am, so the kids were pretty distracted and sweaty. I will try and blame their lack of attention span on the heat, but I'm sure its just the way kids are.
They fielded some grounders, ran some bases, and practiced throwing too. There wasn't any batting practice at all today.

There was lots of waiting around for your turn too - the group was pretty large! As mentioned previously, the draft will be on Thursday. I'm hoping that they'll start practicing as individual teams after that. His next practice, weather pending, is Friday night at 6pm. We should find out what team he's on that night too!

All the kids were taking turns throwing at the fence. Miles threw WILD... Don't believe me? Watch below. Where's the concentration?

Being a coach for these kids would be tough. There's a lot of repeating yourself, trying to be encouraging while instructing, restating your demand with different words, trying to give the instruction in another language, and uhm, I mentioned repeating yourself, right?? I think you get the idea. The coach in the video above was amusing.

Some of my favorite quotes from Coach Carlos were:

Watch where you're walking. These are soft balls, but it's still going to hit you in the head.
Get your finger out of your nose.
Stop playing in the dirt
Pay attention.
Wake up
Your glove goes on your hand.
Lift your other leg. No, the other leg.
Nice throw. Wait, you have to let go. Try again.