It’s a magic word with the quality of multitasking for success.
It’s a potent double-syllable word that represents concentrating,
Planning, engaging, visualizing, foreseeing, and controlling
Your baseball fate: focus!
Getting ready to hit a 100-mile-per-hour pitch: focus!
Preparing to steal a base or stretch your run: focus!
Anticipating the need to charge and scoop up a bunt: focus!
Trying to move the runner by hitting to the right side: focus!
Understanding that the batter likes to hit the other way: focus!
Having a need as catcher to steal a pitch with your glove: focus!
Realizing the need to keep the runner from stretching a single: focus!
Needing to talk the manager into letting you pitch longer: focus!
Relying on sabermetrics to select a starting lineup: focus!
Expecting to hit the cut-off man to save a run: focus!
Making the right pitch to throw the batter off balance: focus!
Baseball is more than physical; it is a mind game with endless
Situations and infinite possibilities. No two games are alike,
But unlike a snowflake, baseball is warm and sentient.
Each game is a chess match that will be won by laser thinking,
By executing plans and by making moves that open the best
Path to triumph, and as with chess, its essence is reduced to
A single simple yet complex approach: understand the situation
Facing you at the moment and then focus!