Found this in my notes from 2020: High school baseball players with hopes of playing in college, here are some things you NEED to hear and if you’re upset by this in any way you need to humble yourself very quickly. Trust me I’m trying to help you. 1.take your jewelry off. Your chain doesn’t look cool, your earrings don’t make you look cool. You know what’s cool? NOT being a hey look at me guy. Let your game talk. Once you hit 30 homers in the big leagues, buy a chain. Until then, stay humble. 2.Stop pouting and looking at your coach if the umpire makes a questionable call. The umpire didn’t make you foul off the good pitch to hit you just missed the pitch before. Show some damn toughness. 3.The easiest way to keep you on the bench is for you to pout and not be encouraging your teammates success. Hoping somebody fails so you look better is for losers. 4.You better hit .400 if you’ve got more gear than a big leaguer up there with an elbow guard and shin guard and every gadget in the world to look important. Maybe get stronger and I promise the 72mph fastball you’re protecting yourself from isn’t going to kill you. 5.If you’re an infielder and you can’t make 9/10 routine plays, you better get two hits a game. If you can’t do either, you can’t play. If you can’t reach first base from whatever position you play, you don’t have a position. 6.If you’re an outfielder and you can’t catch a fly ball OR hit a cutoff man, you can’t play 7.If you don’t know how many outs there are you can’t play. 8.If you don’t know what the signs are, you can’t play. 9.If you know you’re not the fastest kid on the team and you get the steal sign, you better know how to get an aggressive primary lead AND how to get good jumps or you guessed it, you can’t play. 10.If you have an answer for everything because you know more than your coach, then you can sit right beside him and watch the game while the players that are coachable get a chance to play. 11.If you’re a pitcher and you think you have three pitches but can only throw one of them over the plate, you only have one pitch. Pitchers with one pitch are pretty predictable. If you can’t throw two pitches for a strike, you’re not a pitcher. 12.If you can’t diagnose and apply in-game adjustments you can’t play. 13.Being good on the field is cooler than pretending youre good on the internet. 14.If you haven’t seen the weight room in a month and can’t bench your own body weight, stop talking about college baseball. You don’t take it serious enough to make the necessary commitment to play at that level. 15.If you’re walking back to the dugout after your second K telling everybody that the pitcher sucks you’re worried about the wrong guy and you can’t play. 16.If you’re on the bench and talking about anything OTHER than the game and how to help your teammates you can’t play.