Better Men Better Ballplayers Podcast with Eric Lassiter
Sponsored By:
BIO
- HC of Windermere HS (started 6 years ago)
- 5/5 state playoffs
- 4/5 district champs
- 3/5 regional finalist
- Former HC Tavares (1 year)
- HC at alma mater Apopka HS (6 years)
- Co Founder of Power Baseball
- Former WV Wesleyan College AC
- Director of membership for Diamond Allegiance
NOTES
- We are really big in the community and focus more beyond baseball
- Be the ultimate human being
- How you do anything is how you do everything
- Support other teams in the school
- Supporting little league tryouts, signups, etc
- Prep team, feeder team, little league nights
- When you feel the community supporting you its playing for something bigger than you
- Play for a bigger purpose
- Fall season for community work
- Grade checks
- 1 standard - don’t do anything that embarasses your religion, yourself, or your program
- Holding them to the expectations
- 9 to 5 - first 9 has to beat their last 5 on the field
- Everything counts
- Energy, effort, commitment to each,
- Fall season do little things to score points for 9 to 5
- Points for all types of ways to produce wins
- Running gets you better, not punishment
- Losers take care of the field
- Hold kids accountable on the travel scene will create good groups
- Win between innings
- The first tournament you set the standards
- Finding ways to stay active to improve
- Always an opportunity to get better and set yourself apart
- You have to have a skill set and it doesn’t matter how you may hit in a tournament
- How you fail is a big indicator of how you will succeed
- Baseball is how well you can fail
- 3-3 should be same energy as 0-3
- Each hitter can get into certain positions, which means they can move to get there
- What if your body is not capable of getting to that position. Can we unlock parts of your body to get to those positions?
- Power Baseball Foundation - board to help fundraise to help people who cannot afford to play travel baseball
- Application to help with practice and planning. Players come out and we donate their time to help
- Funded organizations that are not even part of Power Baseball
- The more good you do the better you will be
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