Told myself if they find a way to lose, they will drop this series!
We will see today.
Baseball is a brutal game when you are in a slump….
you overthink everything….start to “press” ….horrible frustration.
And the absolute “funnest” game in the world …just no longer is ”fun.”
and when you start not having fun in Baseball….it all goes to hell.
I know this. I played on really good teams and a couple really bad ones.
I wasn’t a great hitter but solid….dependable…and my OBP was always good.
I was 0 for 18 one year at a critical moment in the season….was going nuts…tried changing approach, stance, even my swing a bit. Finally my head coach took me aside and said “just
relax and have the time of your life…have FUN…baseball isn’t forever…ENJOY the time!”
Went 3 for 4 next game…bases clearing triple to win it. All I thought about was how much darn FUN baseball was….every time I went to the plate.
Coached 10 years in HS at one of the largest schools in the state…mostly good or solid years. But there were a couple that were flat awful. One we had very little talent so kind of expected.
The other year we were loaded with all kinds of “expectations”.
Worst season of my life. Nothing worked, constant slumps, kids pressing left and right…desperate….a couple with big scholarships on the line.
All I did was play whack—a-mole that season. Stop one problem and another immediately reappeared.
I kind of feel that is this year’s Huskers in a nutshell.