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Coach Cal’s right — administration matters. But at the high school level, it takes more than that. You need administration that believes in you, coaches/players that are all in, parents that get involved in program, and a community that doesn’t just cheer on Friday nights… but financially supports the program too. Great high school programs aren’t built by one person. They’re built when everybody is invested — with their time, their trust, and their resources. If everybody isn’t rowing the boat in the same direction, don’t complain when the whole thing ends up spinning in circles.

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How to become twitchy. One of the big things you’ve probably heard is that you need to be twitchy. There are guys who just are twitchy. I always wondered how you can become twitchy and how you can train twitchiness. When I came across concentric impulse training, one of the coaches at ThePitcherLab, Pat Robles, had extensive knowledge on concentric impulse and how it affects pitching velocity. He basically told me how to train twitchiness, or concentric impulse. One of the realizations I had with twitchiness is that it’s your ability to fire things as quickly as possible. If you’re able to go from a relaxed position into a max intent position extremely quickly, then you’re gonna be considered twitchy. So I do a bunch of exercises that promote this. For concentric impulse training, I do consecutive reps. It might be five to ten reps, but I’m trying to do them as quickly as possible. These exercises feel weird and challenge your coordination and neural drive more than your physical body. For example, something like a trap bar split stance jump. What you wanna do is perform a jump and do as many as you can within ten seconds. It’s training that concentric impulse of being able to go from land to jump as quickly as possible. This rebounding position is what we need in the pitching delivery. I actually created a full guide on this, so if you want it, comment guide below and I’ll send it over.

Miles’ first college appearance 5 innings of relief. gobrits.com/news/2026/3/12…

Paul McClure 132 finished in 7th place, ending his high school career with a decisive 15 - 6 major decision victory over Ogemaw Heights. 2 time placer 3 time qualifier!!!

High school baseball players that want to play college baseball, the best metric you can have is a good transcript. It gets you into school and buys you time. You can keep getting stronger, throwing harder, running faster. You can be a late bloomer. You can’t ever go back and change your high school gpa. Take care of that and doors will continue to open.

A common principle we discuss at the highest level of sport is: Pressure doesn’t ruin performance, panic does. I read a story once of a rookie astronaut who got tangled during a training drill. It started small — just a minor mistake. But instead of slowing down, he rushed to fix it. The tether wrapped around his helmet, then his tools, then his body. An experienced astronaut reminded him of Hoot’s Law: No matter how bad things seem…You can always make them worse. That’s true in space, in sport, in leadership, and in life. When pressure hits, our instinct is to speed up. We want to fix it fast. But rushed reactions often tighten the knot. Sometimes the best move isn’t immediate action, but rather a brief pause to understand what’s actually happening. Before asking, “How do I fix this?”​ Ask, “If I react poorly, how can I make things worse?” Slow down. See things clearly. Then move with intention.

Throw harder by being relaxed. I feel like I can put the most force into the ball at release when I’m as relaxed as possible throughout the delivery. It almost feels like my body is slack and I just fall down the mound. Then at that exact moment I go as hard as I can. It’s like using a grip machine. You don’t want to go from a 50 percent grip to 100 percent. You want to stay completely relaxed and then turn everything on the second it’s time to go. That’s the feeling I’m trying to create. This is something I train in the weight room too. For example with a trap bar jump I start extremely relaxed and then fire as fast as I can. That trains the neural drive and the central nervous system to turn on quickly. My mindset is to go from completely relaxed to fully contracted and make that gap as big as possible in my delivery. If you’re already 50 percent relaxed, you’re only going from 50 to 100. That means you only have 50 percent of contraction left in the throw. For me it feels like zero, zero, zero, then 100. That’s when I throw my hardest. This might just be my personal feel, but it’s what I’ve felt when I’ve thrown my hardest.

If you’re still only coaching players, you’re thinking too small. The best head coaches coach coaches, not just the players. When an Indiana player said Coach Cig “doesn’t really coach us, he coaches the coaches,” most people didn’t relate. Nick Saban hears multiplication. You can correct a player’s footwork and fix one rep. Or you can coach the coach, and fix every rep after that. At Alabama, film wasn’t just about players. It was about developing teachers. Saban would sit in meetings correcting position coaches, raising their standard, sharpening their eye. Because leadership isn’t about being the smartest voice in the room. It’s about upgrading every voice in the room. He even had the full staff sit in on coaching interviews, not just to hire better, but to help his staff learn new systems and evaluate teaching ability. Great programs don’t rely on one elite communicator. They build layers of them to be more effective. Don’t just develop your players, develop your coaches

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POV: you internally rotate your glove side to throw harder. Another thing that can really help with the glove side isn’t just the block itself, but how you set it up before the block. One of the biggest things I like to do is internally rotate the glove side. Think about getting the pocket of the glove facing the target. That’s where you want to be so you can stay closed as long as possible. This keeps you closed longer and also gives you something to pull against when you go to throw. If you’re here and the pocket is facing you, then you go into block. There isn’t much tension in the glove side to pull against. But if you internally rotate and get the pocket toward the target, that action can create a lot of energy. It goes from here to boom. It feels more like an unloading action. I created a full guide on this, so if you want it, comment guide below and I’ll send it over.

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If you have the yips you need to watch this. I couldn’t throw a baseball 60 feet to save my life, and it wasn’t because of my body, it was because of my brain. I had the yips so bad I couldn’t even play catch. One thought kept destroying me the whole time. Everyone thinks I suck. Here’s what I didn’t know. Nobody was actually thinking about me. There’s a study called the Spotlight Effect that shows people think way less about you than you think they do. In the study, people wore embarrassing shirts and then guessed how many others noticed. They guessed 50 percent. The real number was less than 20 percent. Here’s why. Everyone’s too busy thinking about themselves to think about you. You think about yourself 99 percent of the time, and so does everyone else. That means all that anxiety about what other people think is just in your head. Once I realized nobody actually cared, I stopped caring what they thought. That’s when I finally got over the fear and started throwing freely again.

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This simple exercise will make you throw harder. In the pitching delivery, it’s very important to get into this position and be comfortable and strong there so you can fire from it. That’s exactly what this works on. It’s basically holding a side bend position with a band pulling you. You get into position right here and hold it for two to three minutes. I’m not going to do the full two to three minutes right now, but I can tell you that holding it that long with a band pulling you is brutal. The point is that you’re putting yourself in that position long enough to teach your brain to be comfortable there. When you hold it for two to three minutes, you’re telling your brain that it’s okay. You’re not going to die and you’re not going to get injured in this position. I created a full guide on this, so if you want it, comment guide below and I’ll send it over.

Mike Bianco shares a story about commitment that will change how you think about goals. Jack Weimer was about 5'10" and weighed almost 300 pounds. His doctor told him: "You're not going to live a long life. You've got to go on a diet, you've got to exercise - you're gonna die of a heart attack or stroke." He wanted to change. But his commitment wasn't good enough. Then one day, he got devastating news. His daughter Megan was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease. She needed a kidney transplant. They tested everyone in the family and Jack was the only match. He was excited until the doctors said: "We can't operate on you. We may lose you on the table. And we're not putting that kidney in your daughter. We can't do that." He asked: "How much time do I have?" "Maybe 6 months." In 6 months, Jack Weimer lost 100 pounds. They had the surgery. His daughter got the transplant. So what's the story about? "His commitment wasn't high enough. He wanted to - just like people want to win, people want to go to Omaha, people want to play well. But his commitment wasn't great enough." Then Bianco dropped the line everyone needs to hear: "Once your commitment is greater than your feelings, that's when you get results. That's when it happens for you." Wanting isn't enough. You have to commit. • Commit to showing up. • Commit to being selfless. • Commit to being a good teammate. Your commitment has to be greater than your feelings. That's when change happens. (🎥@baseball_coach )

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The Madison boys bowling team rolled their way to a regional championship on Thursday afternoon at Lenawee Rec, and will move on to States. 965thecave.com/2026/02/20/ins…

With a win in the Bloodround, Paul McClure 132 has punched his ticket to the State Finals at Ford Field. 3 straight trips for the senior. Gio Briggs 157 fell one win shy of advancing. Great season for the junior!! @LenaweeLodes @965TheCave