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oh yeah, a little bit of spring training going on, quite a bit of things from performances to

stuff changes to injuries and more. It's a lot of baseball right now and it is a glorious time,

my friend. Oh my God, did so much baseball.

The kids started Little League.

And so I was coached by, oh, you know, we just had Lars Knutbar on last week.

I was coached by Lars Knutbar's dad in how to coach my kid in pitching.

So that was a fun little clinic.

Charlie Newtbar came by for the National Pitching Association.

He's associated with Tom House.

And, you know, they gave us some exercises the kids can do.

And one of the biggest things that I thought was really interesting was you should warm up to throw.

You should not throw to warm up.

And that is very different from what we'd heard in the past in coaching. You know, if you're doing a

practice with little kids, almost always you say, go grab a ball, get out there and start tossing

the ball around. That's how you start practice. And he was saying

that that doesn't make sense. You should be warm. And, you know, he's got these like, you're running

around with your arms up in the air and you're flapping them around and you're doing all sorts of stuff.

But the idea is to basically activate all your muscles before you start. So like stretch and like,

I mean, I bet little kids just love running around waving their hands. My kid would love that. So instead of picking up the ball and throwing it, just kind of get moving, get like moving the shoulders and stuff like that. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Like even one where you just run with your hands up in the air like this or one where you run in the hands going like this and one where you run you're like twisting while you're running all this stuff is to like activate your obliques activate your shoulders the kids have pretty weak rotator cuffs and shoulders so you want to

get those warmed up you don't want to just pick up a ball and fling it and be like ow you know

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