Breathless

I'm sure you've heard of the term "Good Cop, Bad Cop." The boys normally see me being good cop, but Tuesday I was the bad cop. We had an intense conditioning session before practice officially started. I told them, "What you are about to do will not be fun. It will be difficult. I am testing you guys. How hard you can be knocked down and how strong you can stand back up." Then we begun out conditioning which lasted about 25 minutes. They were beat afterwards.
We moved in to throwing and playing catch and I was getting very aggravated how many bad throws were being made and how many people were dropping balls.  So we did our four corners drill, the same one I posted a video for, and they had to go around the horn five times perfectly (per group) and if they dropped the ball, they had ten pushups as a group. This stacked up and some people did over 100 pushups Tuesday. I'm over all the dropped balls. They have pressure now and have punishment if they fail to execute the simplest of tasks for a baseball player to execute.
After that, we only had 45 minutes of practice remaining. I took pitchers in groups of two and had a catcher catch for me. The pitchers had their first time off the pitching mound this season and the catchers caught a real live bullpen session for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised with how well the pitchers did. The catchers need more work but I figure that will come in time.
We will be outside next practice and I look forward to sharing my experience this weekend.

Also, we unveiled our new uniforms. I think they look really nice.

Picture taken by Tracy Jepson