This one is for you JOY…
When I coached JV softball at Chino High School back in the early 80’s, we came to Bonita to play a JV softball game. There were these two coaches who will remain nameless… (but two great men who to this day I owe many thanks)…one of the coaches was the head varsity boy’s basketball coach for many years here and the other one became a great friend over the years…
Their team took the field after us for their pre-game warm up…thing is, they had no softballs! We were laughing and wondering what this was all about…of course, that is exactly what Bonita wanted us to think…
It was “phantom infield”…we thought this was the craziest thing in the world…but in all fairness…I used it ever since then. My teams loved it…No errors, no bad throws, no dropped balls, no mistakes…all this meant no negativity to start the game the only way we knew how. Everything was positive and the girls would cheer each other on just as they would in the game. It freaked the other teams out…we got to their mental game…most importantly, it created a bond that I think many athletes are lacking these days…Think about it…
If interested, this video is of a baseball phantom warm up. You can hear the boys laughing…because they know exactly what their opponents are thinking…
TGIF Y’ALL…
HI HO…HI HO…ITS OFF TO THE RANCH I GO…
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