130 - Eric Lassiter Windermere HS, Power Baseball, Diamond Allegiance

Better Men Better Ballplayers Podcast with Eric Lassiter

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BIO

• HC of Windermere HS (started 6 years ago)
  • 5/5 state playoffs
  • 4/5  district champs
  • 3/5 regional finalist
• Former HC Tavares (1 year)
• HC at alma mater Apopka HS (6 years)
• Co Founder of Power Baseball
• Former WV Wesleyan College AC
• Director of membership for Diamond Allegiance

 

NOTES

• We are really big in the community and focus more beyond baseball
• Be the ultimate human being
• How you do anything is how you do everything
• Support other teams in the school
• Supporting little league tryouts, signups, etc
• Prep team, feeder team, little league nights
• When you feel the community supporting you its playing for something bigger than you
• Play for a bigger purpose
• Fall season for community work
• Grade checks
• 1 standard - don’t do anything that embarasses your religion, yourself, or your program
• Holding them to the expectations
• 9 to 5 - first 9 has to beat their last 5 on the field
• Everything counts
• Energy, effort, commitment to each, 
• Fall season do little things to score points for 9 to 5
• Points for all types of ways to produce wins
• Running gets you better, not punishment
• Losers take care of the field 
• Hold kids accountable on the travel scene will create good groups
• Win between innings
• The first tournament you set the standards
• Finding ways to stay active to improve
• Always an opportunity to get better and set yourself apart
• You have to have a skill set and it doesn’t matter how you may hit in a tournament
• How you fail is a big indicator of how you will succeed
• Baseball is how well you can fail
• 3-3 should be same energy as 0-3
• Each hitter can get into certain positions, which means they can move to get there
• What if your body is not capable of getting to that position. Can we unlock parts of your body to get to those positions?
• Power Baseball Foundation - board to help fundraise to help people who cannot afford to play travel baseball
  • Application to help with practice and planning. Players come out and we donate their time to help
  • Funded organizations that are not even part of Power Baseball
• The more good you do the better you will be
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