Nov 23, 2020 | Blog, Diamond Devotions
One after another. Honestly, at this point, I keep waiting for one more. No spring break trip. Season on hold. Season canceled. No summer practice. Four weeks of summer practice. No more summer practice. No in-person school. No fall practice. No organized meetings. No...
Mar 14, 2018 | Diamond Devotions
He entered coaching with one goal: to impact the lives of young men through the game of baseball. Over the years, he noticed something. Of all the things guys seemed to benefit from most, what they seemed to cringe about at first, what they seemed to crave later, what...
Sep 13, 2017 | Diamond Devotions
“You’re wrong.” Those are words that no one likes to hear, really. You’re wrong in your approach to that pitch, wrong in how you’re trying to field that ball, wrong in how you’re coaching your team, wrong for playing dirty, wrong...
Oct 27, 2015 | Diamond Devotions
“It’s time to give it up and focus on baseball.” That was the gist of what my dad told me as I entered high school. “It” was basketball, a game in my home state of Kentucky that creates legends. Give it up? I was already a legend (in my...
Jun 25, 2014 | Coach's Counselor
In all the years my dad coached me, I only remember one time where things went sour between us and even that didn’t last long. He was amazing with me. My dad had been a good athlete in his day, but he, like most people, had some unfulfilled dreams. Not once did...
