Everything Fastpitch - The Podcast

This weeks lineup:

• Warmup Segment
• Listener Question:  Disappointment over not being team captain. (@16:27)
• Paige's Power Play: (@19:31)
• Interview with a Texas umpire on the shortage of umpires and the challenges facing umpires today: (@23:08)
• Safety Bases should be used at all levels: (@49:44)
• Preparing your team to play in bad weather: (@58:39)

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The coaches discuss how to set up practice to make our baserunners better. The quickest way for a runner to advance is for them to be able to judge the ball and determine if it should get caught, might get caught or won't get caught. By the time a coach makes the determination and telephones it to the runner we probably have lost a base. But how much time do we practice this? Listen as they tell you how to set up practices to train them.

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This weeks lineup:

• Warmup Segment
• Are parents just unhappy and what is the root cause. Do we really have that many bad coaches or are people just generally unhappy. Let's find the middle ground. (@19:56)
• The coaches talk about some strange endings to games and what we can learn. If high level teams can get confused, so can our teams. (@32:47)
• When you coach long enough you have a stack of buckets. How many times have you seen adults at the field trying to get a stack of buckets unstuck. (@46:37)

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Managing pitching staffs and allocating innings to the different pitchers is a difficult task. It takes a plan. You need to blend the objectives of the team and the development of the pitchers. One thing is for certain, to develop pitchers you have to play more games. To play more games you have to win more so that you go deeper into the tournaments. The coaches discuss different concepts that will help you come up with a plan for your staff. 

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This Weeks Lineup:

• Warmup Segment
• Listener Question: My daughter struggled during her first big tournament, should I panic? (@9:50)
• Paige's Power Play (@14:53)
• Softball has moved up to the 4th ranked sport  in college athletics. (@20:19)
• State of the umpiring crews. We have a serious shortage of umpires and coaches, tournament directors and parents have to get onboard with helping improve the situation. (@31:03)
• Coaches we have to do a better job on identifying our player's weaknesses and let them know specifically what they need to work on.  If you have ever said that we can't hit slow pitchers, then you need to listen to this. (@42:54)

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A listener asks the question of how to become a college coach. Tory and Don give their experiences and discuss what you need to do and how to go about it. If you have ever given it a thought, you need to listen to this episode.

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This weeks lineup:

• Warmup Segment
• Listener Question:  What are our thoughts on putting together a schedule.  (@9:38)
• Paige's Power Play (@16:00)
• Part 2 of interview with Justin McLeod of Justin's World of Softball. (@22:22)
• What do we think about the 1 knee down catching technique? (@49:56)
• Setting your defense. (@1:02:11)

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Coaching the bases is a full time job. It is the coaches responsibility to be totally focused on the base runners and continuously remind them of the situations. Just as players strive to be great, coaches need to strive to be great base coaches. Players need to practice to get better, coaches need to practice with them to get better. 

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This weeks lineup:

• Warmup segment
• Listener Question: Should I get a catcher's glove? (@9:38)
• Paige's Power Play (@12:24)
• Interview with Justin McLeod of Justins World of Softball (justinsworldsb.com) (@17:30)
• Field Conditions and the situations we experience in tournaments. (@46:45)
• Playing the sun fields on defense. (@56:45)

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We have all seen it. Team is struggling and the coach is not changing anything. The bench players and their parents are not happy because they are not getting a chance to see if they are better. The coaches discuss this problem and give our coaching friends some strategies to use in this situation. In fact, some of these strategies should be put to use even if you have a winning team.

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