Plate Crowders

[Jerry]

My own thoughts only! Don't beat me. Or do.

It doesn't make a hill of beans difference what you call! As Marty Springstead once told me, "You've gotta call something."

Don't go moving all over the place or changing your comfortable stance, just for the sake of "getting it right". You'll never get it "right" 100% of the time.

Do you think that newfangled "Qwest" gadget is moving all over the place to suit its needs? Of course not.

Once you know what your strike zone is, it doesn't matter where you set up/sit/stand. You'll know a "strike" when you see it/don't see it.

As for catcalls from the dugout . . . if it bounced and you called a strike; your response, "But it only bounced one time!" If it's outside . . . "The ball looked good; the bat was too short!" And the infamous, "It was a strike the last time" response? "I probably should have called this one too; but it wasn't exactly there."

Jerry