Michael Kinslow

I will die on this hill. I will argue till I’m blue in the face. I will produce the data. Participation in youth sports/activities is as important as many of the classes my kids take at school. Maybe more important.

I don’t think a lot of people realize that “having to play travel to get good competition” (below age 13) is only because you’ve all left your little leagues to play travel. So you’re getting a more expensive little league option that has a worse schedule setup.

A player from Bethune-Cookman University constructed a radar gun device using paper cups and tape, aimed it at Florida pitcher Brady Singer, and held up a sign with the speed reading. Those readings were “slow” and “84”. This an old video but still makes me laugh everytime I see it. Best thing you’ll watch today.

Saw a lot of HS baseball games this season. Notes: 1. Get in the WEIGHT ROOM. 2. If a pitcher doesn’t have elite velo, it’s a heavy diet of off speed called from dugout. 3. Baseball IQ is extremely low. 4. Lack of team chemistry. 5. Zero synergy from orgs & HS staffs.

Words Tim Wakefield wrote in his phone before he passed away a few years ago. Posted shortly by his wife. Powerful words we should all live by.

I’m in love with this sentence: “Your laziness is disrespectful for the people who believe in you.”

I’ve been saying this for years!!

Most men can't: • Do 5–10 pull-ups • Stay under ~20% body fat • Run a mile in under 8 minutes • Bench press their bodyweight • Squat their bodyweight for reps • Do 20–30 push-ups without stopping • Get up off the floor without using your hands • Sprint hard for 10–15 seconds without pulling something This isn’t elite fitness. This is basic.

turns out cold plunging after strength training reduces muscle growth by up to 40%. meanwhile sauna after training increases growth hormone by 200-300%. the cold plunge industry is a $4 billion fad...meanwhile the sauna has 5,000 years of evidence behind it. sauna > cold plunge

It’s NEVER the bat!

I guarantee you this kid has the best bat every year. I tell people all the time, if you can’t hit, it’s not the bat.

Parents of 12 year old, weak & slow baseball players will spend TONS of money on stuff like this Just let your kid lift weights, get strong & hit normally lol

In 1989, Bo Jackson had 32 home runs and 105 RBI and then averaged 5.5 yards per carry that fall in the NFL. Think about that for a minute. Even if you’re already aware.

“Energy” isn’t yelling at your opponent or being overly “rah-rah”. Focus and intent are energy. Being on the top step (or on the fence) engaged in the game is energy. Sprinkle in some dugout shenanigans and rituals and you’ve got the recipe for what energy should look like.

The Kelce brothers accidentally explained one of the longest-running training mistakes in professional sports in under 30 seconds. A pitcher's delivery takes 1.5 seconds. The rest period before the next pitch is roughly 20 seconds. A starter who throws 100 pitches in a game produces somewhere between 2 and 3 minutes of total physical exertion across a 3-hour window. The work-to-rest ratio is approximately 1:20. That ratio maps almost perfectly to the ATP-CP energy system, the anaerobic pathway that powers movements lasting under 10 seconds. Sprinting. Jumping. Swinging a bat. Throwing a 97 mph fastball. Every meaningful action in baseball lives in this system. Distance running trains the opposite system. Aerobic metabolism. Slow-twitch muscle fibers. Type I fibers that are smaller, produce less force, and prioritize fatigue resistance over power output. Elite sprinters carry 60-80% fast-twitch fibers. Elite endurance athletes carry 60-95% slow-twitch. A 2008 study on collegiate baseball players found that combining endurance training with power training produced measurable drops in power output. You are literally remodeling the engine in the wrong direction. Training the aerobic system when every sport-specific action runs on anaerobic fuel. The tradition started decades ago because games last 3 hours and coaches confused game duration with physical demand. A game lasting 3 hours does not mean the athlete is exerting for 3 hours. A pitcher standing on the mound between pitches is recovering, not working. The correct training analog is a sprinter who runs 100 meters, walks back, and goes again. Driveline Baseball, Eric Cressey, and every major sports science program has been publishing this data for over a decade. Strength coaches at the MLB level largely moved to sprint-based and med ball protocols years ago. But the foul-pole-to-foul-pole jog still persists at the high school and college level because the coaches who played in the 90s trained that way and never updated. The Kelces just explained it to 3 million people faster than any journal ever could.

I’ve covered a few PE classes lately & I’ve never been more convinced that every student, in every grade, should have PE daily & we should make the standards more rigorous. Lack of movement + social media/phones is destroying kids’ physical + mental health. Adults need to step in

Not sure if this is a thing everywhere, but seniors give their jerseys to the teachers who had the greatest impact on their lives. Thank you to the teachers who really make a difference in these kids' lives.

When did youth baseball get so serious? Exit velo. Radar guns. Rankings. Travel teams at 8 years old. What happened to just playing because it’s the greatest game ever invented? Sometimes it feels like we all forget it’s still a kid’s game. ⚾️

Billy Bob Thornton: "Politically, I call myself a radical moderate. I’m like very strong in my opinions but my opinions don’t belong to any political party. I just look at what makes sense and I think we need a common sense party in this country."