Figueras Baseball Academy 2006 

Yak! Yak! Yak! Isn't it better to be different!  Wise words, indeed, but what began  life optimistically pleasant  became incrementally disappointed once opinions were divided.

For ages I have been tiptoeing around certain issues that began as inspired solutions to certain obstacles in my way  which I had no answer to but which have to be passed. However, circumstances prompted me to do something about them and with a little effort I have been gathering enthusiasm for my quest. Ever since I have had the chance to appraise skills and adequacy in baseball I have done so without having to confine my findings to certain limits as I am very partial to the truth. Being popular has never been a concern of mine as I have always believed that is better to help someone help himself than rescue him, only to leave the source of his problems untouched. Of course, I respect other people's opinion and I accept that they may feel differently and may criticise me for not stepping in the Status Quo of existing methods of coaching as they might think I should but I think that sticking with what one's believes ought to be one's priority. Indeed, there are issues in life that one will find inescapable and that's life but they are not anything to be concerned with since they are which accents exactly such situations and forces those that are unsolved to a head. Certainly, sometimes, success involves ensuring one's facts are in order and, rather, one must not allow anything to distract one and one will soon find that others would recognise the potential in what one is doing, and, as such, one would find that they would be eager to lend a hand as soon as they have realised that one's solutions to issues were more exciting than theirs. The odds indicate that their enthusiasm will only grow as soon as they have seen the benefit of doing things one's way. Hopefully, they one day would return the many favours one has extended to them. The road to the top is full of twists and turns but to the victors the spoils, and, indeed, when one is driven by a passion for perfection one needs to be magnanimous, speak with authority, have a good all round knowledge of the game and be sure of oneself at all time for no one wants to listen to a coach who is quaking in his boots. The aim is to help one's players to progress with aspirations that one day they will make it big and into the Majors, and with new ideas on the level they might do so and come up smelling of roses without never taking a back-seat. A no-nonsense attitude to complaisance and the eradication of the myth that it is the taking part that counts must be encouraged and, in my view, it is a good recipe for success since every moth needs wings to fly. Indeed, training the young ones to shine in the dark by giving them a helping hand in their quest for brilliancy is my pursuing; for me that is what coaching is all about.

Pedro Figueras

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