Title IX celebrates its 42nd birthday this summer.
My 5'6" daughter caught her brother (two years older than she and 6'2") for years as he developed. He was scouted by MLB until he threw his arm out in college; he was 54-20 lifetime and threw a slider, a curve and a 88-90 mph fastball. She went on to be a fastpitch softball catcher and was in the top 25 nationally in five categories as a senior (including #2 in slugging and #4 in HR's), and played for a national amateur championship team and a pro team. Her brother quit baseball after college and turned himself into a top amateur golfer (handicap below 6) and an award-winning wholesale golf salesman. Her favorite memorabilia is is an old "Foxtrot" cartoon with the tagline "Please don't kill me" is not a catcher's sign." "Well, it ought to be." She was elected to her college athletic hall of fame on her second year of eligibility; some of her records in college still stand; she's now 36, with two masters' degrees and two kids ages 6 & 4.
Sports and performance psychology apply to the rest of us too.
This film "Trouble With The Curve" is more about human connection than it is about a game of baseball.
Those two kids can both recite the full dialogue for the entire film "Field of Dreams" when it shows.
It's all about belief in self and excellence.
If You Want to Achieve Excellence...
You must have total intention to create it here and now.
Total intention is the powerful combination of desire, belief and acceptance.
You must not only desire it, but you must believe that you are capable of bringing it about.
And you must be willing to accept the positives and the responsibilities that will come when it arrives, as well as the responsibilities when it does not.
Archibald "Moonlight" Graham wrote the seminal research on juvenile hypertension: “Blood Pressures in Children Between the Ages of Five and Sixteen Years”, American Journal of Diseases of Children, volume 69, no. 4:203-207; primary author, A. W. Graham, M.D. (University of Maryland, 1905) ( Bats: Left, Throws: Right ).
One’s true capacity for moving,
or being moved, can be achieved
only when one’s commitment to others
is in fact connected to and derived from
his primary commitment to himself.
When we find this kind of alignment of purpose,
there is a harmony of motivation
that can provide the fuel and clarity
to overcome great obstacles
in the pursuit of great challenge.
from The Inner Game of Work,
by W. Timothy Gallwey
Mystery MLB Team Moves To Supercomputing For Their Moneyball Analysis
Posted by timothy on Saturday April 05, 2014 @06:08AM
from the stats-nerds-with-bats dept.
An anonymous reader writes
“A mystery [Major League Baseball] team has made a sizable investment in Cray’s latest effort at bringing graph analytics at extreme scale to bat. Nicole Hemsoth writes that what the team is looking for is a “hypothesis machine” that will allow them to integrate multiple, deep data wells and pose several questions against the same data. They are looking for platforms that allow users to look at facets of a given dataset, adding new cuts to see how certain conditions affect the reflection of a hypothesized reality.”
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