I had a couple of softball games the last couple of days. It was fun. I hit the ball pretty hard in the first game; a fly out to left and two hard line drive singles was enough to get me moved from batting last to fourth. Then I had a couple of infield hits and a sac fly (one might of been an error, didn't see it). All in all, I should be much better at softball than I am. I've always had three mistakes that tend to creep into my swing: weight on the front foot (lunging), head coming up, and shoulder flying out too soon. All are probably related, especially the last two. I'm still not used to sitting back as much as I need to in softball, so it's easy for these problems to creep into my swing.
We all have uniforms complete with baseball pants. Grown men in baseball pants look ridiculous.
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Fox sports southwest actually did a thing recently on the Rangers hitting coach, and he was talking about a player with very similar mechanical problems to yours. After working on it for a couple of weeks they figured out that the root of the guy's batting problem was that he was too fat and gay. And his mother was too promiscuous.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should try being slimmer and more straight with a less promiscuous mother?
Those problems all seem related as well.
ReplyDeleteTry this. Once the ball is pitched say to yourself, "God I feel fat and gay in these pants!" and then swing. That should definitely take care of your timing/lunging. Also maybe get tighter pants so lunging is no longer an option.
Haha, thanks for the comments.
ReplyDeleteRobert, I come to you for info on many things, but how to move my body parts in a coordinate motion will never be one of them. My dad still asks how your war against gravity is going.
Kyle, you would laugh so hard if you saw the pants I was wearing. They were way too tight and short, and so I hiked them up a little to the knee like I used to wear them back and the day. Let's just say I finally got off my ass and exchanged them when the other team started yelling, "Capri pants are in this year" "Two for one sale on capris at the Gap."