During one of the worst losing streaks of my career, our team president walked into my office.
Keli McGregor. One of the best men I've ever known.
He could have come to vent. To question my decisions. To ask hard questions.
Instead, he said: "Cut to the chase, Clint. What's next?"
I looked him in the eye and gave him two words: "Shower well."
The Colorado Rockies were struggling badly that year.
Pregame preparation was solid. Scout meetings, early work, attention to detail. All of it was there.
But at game time, the tires were flat.
I told Keli: the game did everything it could to us today. We just couldn't meet its demands.
Now it was time to reset.
"Shower well" means exactly this:
• Watch the frustration circle down the drain
• Shampoo, rinse, repeat and get the grime of today completely off your mind
• Walk out clean, go home, and actually rest
Leave it at the ballpark. The game is over. There's nothing left to solve tonight.
Keli nodded. Asked if he could share it with the whole organization.
I said sure. And then it hit me. This isn't just for baseball.
Bad day at the office. Grumpy boss. Missed deadline. Traffic on the way home.
You can carry all of that through your front door.
Or you can shower well.
I've never seen a single problem get better because someone dragged it home with them.
The reset is a discipline. Same as preparation. Same as showing up.
Either we win. Or we learn.
The only real loss? When you don't take a single thing out of a hard day.
So tonight, whatever kind of day it was, shower well.
Tomorrow is a new at-bat.
What does your reset look like? I'd love to hear it.
Out:
34 year old Brayden Schenn w/ 2yrs left @ $6.5mil AAV
33 year old Justin Faulk w/ 1yr left @ $6.5mil AAV
IN:
1st round pick (NYI)
1st round pick (DET)
3rd round pick (NYI)
3rd round pick (DET/SJ)
G Prospect Marcus Gidlof
Justin Holl
Jonathan Drouin 1yr left @ $4mil AAV
Crossfit is cool.
Calisthenics is cool.
Bodybuilding is cool.
Martial arts is cool.
As a fitness community, we need to come together and only hate on runners. Those people are weird.
We are THIS close to the best stretch of the year…
• Longer days (clocks spring forward)
• Consistent warm weather
• Baseball on every night
• Grilling season
• Major golf tournaments
• March Madness
If you cut out 1,000 calories a day between now and March Madness, you'll be able to consume 22,000 calories worth of beer and chicken on the first Thursday of March Madness.
"Confidence comes from being prepared." - John Wooden
Apparently the whole
5g of Creatine
Bed by 9, at the latest
290 grams of Protein
Strength training 4X a week
Deep core exercise 3X a week
10k steps daily 
Magnesium before before bed
Omega3 and probiotic in the morning
Daily reading
Phone on dnd
No alcohol
Iodine when you wake up
actually works.
We got pictures with 9 in it.
We got the time 1:07 on the clock and the length of a video.
We got Vecna telling us "it all begins tomorrow"
We got profile pictures changed.
We got profile bio's changed.
Just for it all to be bad writing.