Worst advice you've ever gotten...........
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vipvanilla
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I love this one! I also love when someone hits it and my IF is yelling, "BACK BACK BACK!" and I have to run up 10 feet to catch it, or they yell "SHORT!!" and I'm turning around to go get the ball.
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Even though I knew what my son was doing wrong as he was learning at age 7-8, I was a terrible teacher. When I go to the batting cage and see the parents doing such a terrible job with their kids (whether they know what they are talking about or not), my only advice is to get out of the coaching business and find a good instructor at one of the dozen baseball academies. One dad was just yelling at his 7 year old like crazy and I finally suggested some lessons. He said the kid had been taking them for a year and he couldn't figure out why he was having such an off day. I suggested the kid not wear his cleats to the cement floored cages next time. The dad looked down and did a facepalm.
Last Saturday we were at the cage and a guy comes over to tell me my son's stance is way too wide, that he will never get any power from his hips. I am thinking I need to check this at the next lesson... and then I see this guy hit in the softball cage. Feet under his shoulders, big step, no hip rotation, swing is all arms. I wanted to go and give HIM some advice.
Last Saturday we were at the cage and a guy comes over to tell me my son's stance is way too wide, that he will never get any power from his hips. I am thinking I need to check this at the next lesson... and then I see this guy hit in the softball cage. Feet under his shoulders, big step, no hip rotation, swing is all arms. I wanted to go and give HIM some advice.
Rous
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"Keep the back elbow up" may be the most common piece of bad advice.
I also think that coaching to come down on the ball (dropping the bat through the swing) is pretty awful advice. You can watch swing analysis of dozens of good MLB hitters and never see a bat head drop all the way through the swing.
I also think that coaching to come down on the ball (dropping the bat through the swing) is pretty awful advice. You can watch swing analysis of dozens of good MLB hitters and never see a bat head drop all the way through the swing.
bndawgs
President-Elect
We've all gotten it.....That thing that someone says to you about hitting that makes you just go, "Wow!!......Really???I had a dude tell me once that the bat was too far out in my fingers, and that I need to get it back in my palms and grip it really tight..."It seems to be working the way you're doing it, but it'll work better if you do that......" Needless to say, I never listened to him.
I thought you were going to go with listening to someone tell you that you look good in yellow softball pants.
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I was an OF'er for my skinny days and have moved to the IF for fatboy days. I've seen both sides of this. As an OF'er I'm with you. I can't stand them yelling stuff from the infield, but as soon as I set foot on that damn infield it seems like a license to tell the OF what to do. lol. I try to catch myself from doing it, but I'm an offender as well.
grux41
Coach
probably off topic and only slightly related to this. in highschool I played SS in a ortho league, the 1B kept taking my throws in the palm of his glove so he told me to stop throwing it there
swingnmiss
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Swing I think the worst advice you got was that yellow pants were cool
GOLD MOTHER****ERS!!! Gold.
This I Was Told To "Aim For The Lights" To Hit Home runs
swingnmiss
#1 IN YOUR HEARTS
^^^^^ If those things had black piping down the sides, I'd totally rock them in the outfield.
Am now in a week long debate/argument on overlap vs traditional baseball grip w/ my team's SS.
Also trying to explain to him the upside of learning how to cut the ball... apparently the overlap grip, with all things being equal SLOWS bat speed and knuckleballs off the bat travel farther (or so he tells me lol). That being said, wearing yellow pants while keeping the back shoulder up is the worst advice given.
Also trying to explain to him the upside of learning how to cut the ball... apparently the overlap grip, with all things being equal SLOWS bat speed and knuckleballs off the bat travel farther (or so he tells me lol). That being said, wearing yellow pants while keeping the back shoulder up is the worst advice given.
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My kids 10 under all star coach was officially the "giver of the worst advice ever" on multiple fronts.
1. No no no....I want you to pull that outside pitch.
2. Pitchers.....I want you guys throwing high strikes to all of their big hitters....actually all of their hitters.
3. Guys......3-0 and I want to see you swinging.....be aggressive. We are down 3-2 in the 5th with the bases loaded and 1 out.....and he tells our 3 hitter he better swing if its close.....ground ball to pitcher....home....1st base...inning over.
4. He tried to walk out and coach 3rd at least 3 times each game when our team was in the field.
5. He protested a bat for being shaved because he read that guys put "concave end caps" in when a bat gets shaved to help "keep the walls in". I told him he was an idiot and that's how the demarini end caps are....look, we have 2 that are exactly the same. He says " What? Whose bats....they must be shaved." We were up 3-0 and out pitcher was pitching a gem and after the 20 minute unsuccessful protest the other team scored 5 runs with 2 outs.
6. He got mad because I wasn't putting the outfielders in good positions based on the batters...truth is.....the guys were teeing off early due to the high strike mandate so I had them playing deep and they caught a few off the end cap and they fell in behind the Infield.....so he smashed his glasses on the dugout floor. I put them in my pocket and later took a picture of the glasses on 1 of my sons old trophies and sent it to all of the parents after we lost. Unfortunately it was the highlight of the tournament.
1. No no no....I want you to pull that outside pitch.
2. Pitchers.....I want you guys throwing high strikes to all of their big hitters....actually all of their hitters.
3. Guys......3-0 and I want to see you swinging.....be aggressive. We are down 3-2 in the 5th with the bases loaded and 1 out.....and he tells our 3 hitter he better swing if its close.....ground ball to pitcher....home....1st base...inning over.
4. He tried to walk out and coach 3rd at least 3 times each game when our team was in the field.
5. He protested a bat for being shaved because he read that guys put "concave end caps" in when a bat gets shaved to help "keep the walls in". I told him he was an idiot and that's how the demarini end caps are....look, we have 2 that are exactly the same. He says " What? Whose bats....they must be shaved." We were up 3-0 and out pitcher was pitching a gem and after the 20 minute unsuccessful protest the other team scored 5 runs with 2 outs.
6. He got mad because I wasn't putting the outfielders in good positions based on the batters...truth is.....the guys were teeing off early due to the high strike mandate so I had them playing deep and they caught a few off the end cap and they fell in behind the Infield.....so he smashed his glasses on the dugout floor. I put them in my pocket and later took a picture of the glasses on 1 of my sons old trophies and sent it to all of the parents after we lost. Unfortunately it was the highlight of the tournament.
swingnmiss
#1 IN YOUR HEARTS
GOLD MOTHER****ER!!! Gold.
chrometip78
The Hungarian Barbarian
Overlap grip is compensation for poor mechanics.
tmanstan
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Every damn game this happens. INF yelling "move in, make 'em hit it past you". Batter ends up going oppo and hitting it 300+ ft.
The Crimedog
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This right here is the winner for me. Elbow up does more harm than good.
Resin Glazed
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Classax
Act Like You Know
5. hit the ball where its pitched= shooting middle
4. INF yelling 4, 4, 4 to the OF, when there's no chance to get him at home and the batter advances to second, wash, rinse, repeat
3. Hey Coach, you need to bat me X because blah blah... always results in said batter hitting infield fly with bases loaded to loose the game.
2. "Hey, if you aint cheatn, you aint competin "
and the all time worst advice in the history of the game....
1. may be you can find the answer by asking on the softballfans forum
4. INF yelling 4, 4, 4 to the OF, when there's no chance to get him at home and the batter advances to second, wash, rinse, repeat
3. Hey Coach, you need to bat me X because blah blah... always results in said batter hitting infield fly with bases loaded to loose the game.
2. "Hey, if you aint cheatn, you aint competin "
and the all time worst advice in the history of the game....
1. may be you can find the answer by asking on the softballfans forum
mattun
Internet Tough Guy
Company team. We just played a pretty brutal game were only the 3/4 hitters did anything (I think they had 6 hits and all the RBIs) and we lost like 15-4. The guy who catches for us (and barely has played before) was thrown out on what could only be described as a suprise delayed steal of second following a line out to 2B. He drops by my office afterwards and recommends that I bat him lead off and the problem with the offense is the 3/4 hitters are trying to hit too many home runs.
Hiltz
Built for comfort
Guy that runs our team always gives everyone a paragraph worth of batting advice as they're walking up to the plate. If someone hits a popup, next time up he always says "swing down at the ball" and every single person gets the invariable "push your hands through the zone". I'm batting about .200 higher than him with 4 times the hr's, and he tells me to push my hands through the zone. I'm gonna call time and ask him what he means someday.