Third Inning, 10-1

Last night I was walking my dog and randomly passed a little league baseball game. As a huge sports fan, we sat and watched the game. Well, I watched the game and Paisley ate rocks. It was a perfect night, light breeze blowing, bright field lights just coming on, a faint smell of a fire burning in the distance, and BASEBALL at its purest. Normally I wouldn't blog about sports BUT something caught my attention last night.



Besides the amazing ambiance, the game was less than interesting. The score was 10 to 1 in the bottom of the third inning. It was pretty much a blowout! But I continued to watch because I enjoy cheering for the UNDERdog, and in this case I had a lot of cheering to do!

It was the bottom of the 4th inning that I overheard something VERY special come from the losing team's dugout. The coach was giving a mid-inning pep talk and right before his boys went up to bat he said this,

"I know you feel like it's over, but with that kind of thinking you already lost. If you believe you can take this game back you will, let's just focus on getting FOUR runs this inning."

Sure enough, each batter got a hit! Before you knew it the game was tied by the top of the 6th! It was one of the most epic comebacks I had EVER seen!

Then I started to think about the coach...

He knew just what to say when it needed to be said.

He gave the team a small goal, which he knew they would exceed. BUT sometimes that is exactly what you need... just enough to believe in, then you gain momentum.

I hear people say motivational speakers are worthless... but it's moments like this that make me feel like I'm on to something.

Ahhhh... the power of our words...what a responsibility.

Keep It Real.

Murph