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Dan Uggla and The Short School Bus Hitting Philosophy in MLB in the year 2012.
Dan Uggla serves as the perfect example of the type of hitter both Rogers Hornsby and Ty Cobb would have absolutely hated! Why? Because, Dan Uggla is a stupid hitter and they believed stupid hitters had no place in the big leagues. Why is Uggla so stupid? What exactly is he doing or not doing that makes him so stupid?
Both Cobb and Hornsby would have told Uggla that he is so stupid because he doesn’t have a very specific plan for each and every pitch. This failure to have a very specific plan for each and every pitch guarantees hitting mediocrity or worse. And, of course, the word “specific” means just that, something exact, definite, and precise.
In order to maximize the use of your conscious, subconscious, and superconscious mind, one needs to not only know precisely what the “end result” looks like, but they also need to feel totally confident that they can and will make it happen. This combination of knowing precisely what you want and feeling totally confident in your ability to make it happen is the most effective means of allowing your conscious, subconscious, and superconscious mind to assist you in making your very specific plan or end result occur exactly as planned. Hitters like Dan Uggla need to know this. Unfortunately for Dan, most probably, none of his MLB coaches know it either, nor has any other coach he has ever had.
A great example of a specific plan the Uggla types need to know is that of Ted Williams. With less than two strikes, the intelligent hitting Ted Williams would only swing at a specific type of pitch, (like a fast ball, slider, etc) and only swing if the specific type of pitch he had pre-selected for his plan traveled to a spot in his strike zone, a spot that was the size of a silver dollar. That’s just the first part of Ted’s very specific Plan.
The second part of his very specific plan went into effect when Ted actually received the “only” pitch he would allow himself to swing at. Ted’s well rehearsed plan was to hit the ball on a 22-degree trajectory, with backspin, into the right centerfield seats. Why 22-degrees? 22-degrees are right in the middle, between 0-degrees (a line shot parallel to the ground ) to 45-degrees. The longest home runs fly at a true 45-degree trajectory, the same as in military artillery. The big shells, fired from the 16” guns on a Battleship, each shell about the same weight as a Volkswagen Beetle, can travel about 40 miles when shot at a 45-degree trajectory, thereby achieving the maximum distance for such a gun and shell.
By focusing in on 22-degrees, Ted gave himself maximum opportunity for success. If he was slightly under or above his perfect contact spot, he might hit a 45-degree shot out of the stadium, a 33-degree shot off a speaker in the upper deck, or maybe an 11-degree shot into the gap for extra bases. Even if he were slightly in front or slightly late with his swing, the longitude, latitude, and trajectory may still be close to perfect, still producing a positive result. Generally, however, hitting while in the zone, the mental state in which action appears to slow down, normally results in perfection. This is a specific plan, the plan of a great hitter.
Where did Ted Williams learn to hit like this? He learned it at the age of 18 directly from his personal hitting instructor, none other than Rogers Hornsby himself. Hornsby taught him the most important secret of great hitting, which is to have a very specific plan for each and every pitch. Hours spent with a hitting tee, rehearsing these perfect, specific plans, along with many hours spent visualizing such precise and specific plans always leads to more zone experiences and more perfect performances. This is intelligent hitting.
Stupid Hitters like Dan Uggla are members of the see it, pull it, and hit it as far as you can school of hitting ( Let’s call it The short school bus-hitting philosophy) Hornsby and Cobb were perhaps the two most hated baseball players in history, primarily because they had no respect for stupid ball players and frequently insulted them. Both Cobb and Hornsby were leather tough men who talked nasty and weren’t afraid to hit you in the mouth too. Cobb and Hornsby regarded Dead pull hitters as the weakest hitters, the most unprofessional hitters. Cobb and Hornsby could rarely contain their contempt for such bush league hitters.
Players on the same teams with Cobb or Hornsby that failed to follow the hitting advice of these legends would be verbally assaulted on a daily basis by these two great hitters. Cobb and Hornsby were hated mostly because they insisted on telling the truth to their teammates, in no uncertain terms, normally in very salty language, and normally super-insulting.
Pull hitting naturally develops in young boys trying to hit it as far as they can. Why?
That’s the most enjoyable type of hit for most people, hitting it as far as they can. However, Push hitting is the key to maximizing the batting average. The better push hitter you become, the higher your batting average will be. Push hitting, however, seems unnatural, is not perceived as very much fun, and requires a lot of hard work to master. Cobb and Hornsby understood this; the Dan Uggla’s of the world do not.
One of Cobb’s teammates on the Detroit Tigers was Harry Heilmann, a .300 hitter until he started paying attention to the teachings of Ty Cobb. After utilizing Cobb’s advice, Heilmann hit .400 for a full season. Heilmann said, “I never became a great hitter until I learned to hit the inside pitch to the opposite field” (especially with two strikes).
Of course, this information is not rocket science. It should be pretty logical and easy to figure out, shouldn’t it be? I mean, is it that difficult to determine who the best hitters are, learn what they think and how they prepare, then simply emulate them? Of course not; it should be very easy. This should be common knowledge in every MLB organization. So, why isn’t at least some variation of the hitting philosophy of Rogers Hornsby, the greatest right handed hitter of all time, being used everywhere in MLB today?
The owners of MLB organizations do not want .400 hitting superstars on their teams. Yes, this may sound really un-American to you, and it is, but it begins to make more sense when you understand how real power operates in America. Remember, above all else, the MLB team owners wish to keep the wealth and power they currently have. All MLB team owners know that irritating a Rockefeller, a Rothschild, the Queen, or the Pope is to be avoided at all cost. Why?
These are the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world who totally control virtually everything. This includes the governments and military of all NATO nations for sure, and Russia and China too. This includes all the alphabet agencies too, like the CIA, MI6, Mossad, FBI, NSA, DEA, ATF, etc., you get the idea. In addition, these Ruling Elites totally control the media as well. If you should ever make the mistake of really pissing them off, they can have you assassinated very easily, and get away with it too.
Superstars in sports and entertainment are always a potential political threat to the above mentioned Ruling Elites. When you carefully research the situations, conditions, and events surrounding the deaths of many young superstars, you often learn they were most likely assassinated because of their political activity. Jim Morrison of the Doors, John Lennon of the Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Jimmy Dean, you get the idea. Now, most Superstars realize that becoming a political activist can be very hazardous to your health.
The MLB team owners all fear the possibility that some Superstar on their team, God Forbid, may decide to become a political activist and start speaking truth to power. And, of course, this possibility makes all MLB owners extremely uneasy. Therefore, minimizing this risk is a top priority to every owner. Of course, most of the hired help always remain clueless.
In America, The Rockefeller Family is perhaps the most frightening power; a family that owns and/or controls more wealth and therefore has more power than anyone else in America. If you really want to learn more about the nature of real power in America, check out the work of Sherman Skolnick and Robert Galon Ross Sr., for starters. Then, check out Eric Jon Phelps’ 1800 page history of the Jesuits, entitled VATICAN ASSASSINS. Amazing stuff, actual truth, and real news you will never hear from ABC, CBS, NBC, or FOX News.
Therefore, MLB team owners try to make sure .400 hitting is neither perceived to be viable goal nor even considered to be possible. The owners accomplish this by hiring coaches and player development people who are neither too highly educated, nor too motivated, nor too interested in challenging the status quo. These people are interested in a paycheck more than anything else. They are taught to just keep their mouth shut, never rock the boat, and just keep cashing those nice paychecks. That’s it. That’s all most of them care about.
Today, for example, the vast majority of, if not all, MLB coaches have been brainwashed to believe the .400 batting average is not even possible. This is the type of mentality the MLB owners apparently encourage among their coaches and players. Parity in sports, where everyone wins and loses the same amount of games, seems to make the ruling elites most comfortable. Only the honest fans truly want their favorite teams and players to stand out. The owners prefer parity and mediocrity.
Dan Uggla is a perfect example of the ignorance limiting MLB today. Before Uggla, the Braves had a player named Andruw Jones who was another fantastic athlete but a stupid hitter. Year after year Andruw would swing at low and away curve balls, often bouncing balls. It was absolutely pitiful. It was like watching Charles Barkley swinging a golf club, just painfully pitiful.
Every MLB player has the ability to hit .400 with power, yet nobody has done it since 1941 when Ted Williams hit .406. Why? Remember, the vast majority of, if not all, MLB coaches have unwittingly or ignorantly been deceived by the false belief that hitting .400 is impossible. This false belief pretty much guarantees that the .400 batting average will not be accomplished. Our subconscious mind must follow our conscious mind’s orders. If we don’t believe we can hit .400, we won’t.
Isn’t it amazing how the two meanest, toughest, and most hated players in Baseball history, Cobb and Hornsby, finished their baseball careers with the two highest lifetime batting averages? Cobb finished at .367 and Hornsby at .358…Lifetime! Of course, these were two intelligent hitters, both fiercely determined to be the best. Both of these men hit .400 or better three times each. It never occurred to either of them that they could not hit .400.
The best 30 consecutive days of hitting in MLB history occurred in 1924 when Rogers Hornsby hit .509. In addition to those 30 days Hornsby added 30 more days for a 60 consecutive day batting average of .489, also a record. Hornsby is the only player who has hit .400 and 40 home runs in the same season. He won two Triple Crowns and was also the top power hitter in the NL winning the Slugging Title a record 9 times!
For the full five seasons of 1921 through 1925, Hornsby’s batting average was .402, the best five year stretch of hitting in history. Hornsby was a great hitter, totally unlike Uggla, because Hornsby always had a specific plan of attack in mind prior to each and every pitch. Ted Williams always said that Rogers Hornsby was the greatest right handed hitter of all time because he combined high batting average with power better than anyone ever has.
Of course, this information is about as welcome to MLB team owners as the news that cannabis cures cancer is to Big Pharma, which is not very. The establishment, controlled by the Ruling Elites, doesn’t want you to know this information. And there is so much more they don’t want you to know. This is only a small piece of a very ugly global criminal enterprise.
Dan Uggla serves as the perfect example of the type of hitter both Rogers Hornsby and Ty Cobb would have absolutely hated! Why? Because, Dan Uggla is a stupid hitter and they believed stupid hitters had no place in the big leagues. Why is Uggla so stupid? What exactly is he doing or not doing that makes him so stupid?
Both Cobb and Hornsby would have told Uggla that he is so stupid because he doesn’t have a very specific plan for each and every pitch. This failure to have a very specific plan for each and every pitch guarantees hitting mediocrity or worse. And, of course, the word “specific” means just that, something exact, definite, and precise.
In order to maximize the use of your conscious, subconscious, and superconscious mind, one needs to not only know precisely what the “end result” looks like, but they also need to feel totally confident that they can and will make it happen. This combination of knowing precisely what you want and feeling totally confident in your ability to make it happen is the most effective means of allowing your conscious, subconscious, and superconscious mind to assist you in making your very specific plan or end result occur exactly as planned. Hitters like Dan Uggla need to know this. Unfortunately for Dan, most probably, none of his MLB coaches know it either, nor has any other coach he has ever had.
A great example of a specific plan the Uggla types need to know is that of Ted Williams. With less than two strikes, the intelligent hitting Ted Williams would only swing at a specific type of pitch, (like a fast ball, slider, etc) and only swing if the specific type of pitch he had pre-selected for his plan traveled to a spot in his strike zone, a spot that was the size of a silver dollar. That’s just the first part of Ted’s very specific Plan.
The second part of his very specific plan went into effect when Ted actually received the “only” pitch he would allow himself to swing at. Ted’s well rehearsed plan was to hit the ball on a 22-degree trajectory, with backspin, into the right centerfield seats. Why 22-degrees? 22-degrees are right in the middle, between 0-degrees (a line shot parallel to the ground ) to 45-degrees. The longest home runs fly at a true 45-degree trajectory, the same as in military artillery. The big shells, fired from the 16” guns on a Battleship, each shell about the same weight as a Volkswagen Beetle, can travel about 40 miles when shot at a 45-degree trajectory, thereby achieving the maximum distance for such a gun and shell.
By focusing in on 22-degrees, Ted gave himself maximum opportunity for success. If he was slightly under or above his perfect contact spot, he might hit a 45-degree shot out of the stadium, a 33-degree shot off a speaker in the upper deck, or maybe an 11-degree shot into the gap for extra bases. Even if he were slightly in front or slightly late with his swing, the longitude, latitude, and trajectory may still be close to perfect, still producing a positive result. Generally, however, hitting while in the zone, the mental state in which action appears to slow down, normally results in perfection. This is a specific plan, the plan of a great hitter.
Where did Ted Williams learn to hit like this? He learned it at the age of 18 directly from his personal hitting instructor, none other than Rogers Hornsby himself. Hornsby taught him the most important secret of great hitting, which is to have a very specific plan for each and every pitch. Hours spent with a hitting tee, rehearsing these perfect, specific plans, along with many hours spent visualizing such precise and specific plans always leads to more zone experiences and more perfect performances. This is intelligent hitting.
Stupid Hitters like Dan Uggla are members of the see it, pull it, and hit it as far as you can school of hitting ( Let’s call it The short school bus-hitting philosophy) Hornsby and Cobb were perhaps the two most hated baseball players in history, primarily because they had no respect for stupid ball players and frequently insulted them. Both Cobb and Hornsby were leather tough men who talked nasty and weren’t afraid to hit you in the mouth too. Cobb and Hornsby regarded Dead pull hitters as the weakest hitters, the most unprofessional hitters. Cobb and Hornsby could rarely contain their contempt for such bush league hitters.
Players on the same teams with Cobb or Hornsby that failed to follow the hitting advice of these legends would be verbally assaulted on a daily basis by these two great hitters. Cobb and Hornsby were hated mostly because they insisted on telling the truth to their teammates, in no uncertain terms, normally in very salty language, and normally super-insulting.
Pull hitting naturally develops in young boys trying to hit it as far as they can. Why?
That’s the most enjoyable type of hit for most people, hitting it as far as they can. However, Push hitting is the key to maximizing the batting average. The better push hitter you become, the higher your batting average will be. Push hitting, however, seems unnatural, is not perceived as very much fun, and requires a lot of hard work to master. Cobb and Hornsby understood this; the Dan Uggla’s of the world do not.
One of Cobb’s teammates on the Detroit Tigers was Harry Heilmann, a .300 hitter until he started paying attention to the teachings of Ty Cobb. After utilizing Cobb’s advice, Heilmann hit .400 for a full season. Heilmann said, “I never became a great hitter until I learned to hit the inside pitch to the opposite field” (especially with two strikes).
Of course, this information is not rocket science. It should be pretty logical and easy to figure out, shouldn’t it be? I mean, is it that difficult to determine who the best hitters are, learn what they think and how they prepare, then simply emulate them? Of course not; it should be very easy. This should be common knowledge in every MLB organization. So, why isn’t at least some variation of the hitting philosophy of Rogers Hornsby, the greatest right handed hitter of all time, being used everywhere in MLB today?
The owners of MLB organizations do not want .400 hitting superstars on their teams. Yes, this may sound really un-American to you, and it is, but it begins to make more sense when you understand how real power operates in America. Remember, above all else, the MLB team owners wish to keep the wealth and power they currently have. All MLB team owners know that irritating a Rockefeller, a Rothschild, the Queen, or the Pope is to be avoided at all cost. Why?
These are the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world who totally control virtually everything. This includes the governments and military of all NATO nations for sure, and Russia and China too. This includes all the alphabet agencies too, like the CIA, MI6, Mossad, FBI, NSA, DEA, ATF, etc., you get the idea. In addition, these Ruling Elites totally control the media as well. If you should ever make the mistake of really pissing them off, they can have you assassinated very easily, and get away with it too.
Superstars in sports and entertainment are always a potential political threat to the above mentioned Ruling Elites. When you carefully research the situations, conditions, and events surrounding the deaths of many young superstars, you often learn they were most likely assassinated because of their political activity. Jim Morrison of the Doors, John Lennon of the Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Jimmy Dean, you get the idea. Now, most Superstars realize that becoming a political activist can be very hazardous to your health.
The MLB team owners all fear the possibility that some Superstar on their team, God Forbid, may decide to become a political activist and start speaking truth to power. And, of course, this possibility makes all MLB owners extremely uneasy. Therefore, minimizing this risk is a top priority to every owner. Of course, most of the hired help always remain clueless.
In America, The Rockefeller Family is perhaps the most frightening power; a family that owns and/or controls more wealth and therefore has more power than anyone else in America. If you really want to learn more about the nature of real power in America, check out the work of Sherman Skolnick and Robert Galon Ross Sr., for starters. Then, check out Eric Jon Phelps’ 1800 page history of the Jesuits, entitled VATICAN ASSASSINS. Amazing stuff, actual truth, and real news you will never hear from ABC, CBS, NBC, or FOX News.
Therefore, MLB team owners try to make sure .400 hitting is neither perceived to be viable goal nor even considered to be possible. The owners accomplish this by hiring coaches and player development people who are neither too highly educated, nor too motivated, nor too interested in challenging the status quo. These people are interested in a paycheck more than anything else. They are taught to just keep their mouth shut, never rock the boat, and just keep cashing those nice paychecks. That’s it. That’s all most of them care about.
Today, for example, the vast majority of, if not all, MLB coaches have been brainwashed to believe the .400 batting average is not even possible. This is the type of mentality the MLB owners apparently encourage among their coaches and players. Parity in sports, where everyone wins and loses the same amount of games, seems to make the ruling elites most comfortable. Only the honest fans truly want their favorite teams and players to stand out. The owners prefer parity and mediocrity.
Dan Uggla is a perfect example of the ignorance limiting MLB today. Before Uggla, the Braves had a player named Andruw Jones who was another fantastic athlete but a stupid hitter. Year after year Andruw would swing at low and away curve balls, often bouncing balls. It was absolutely pitiful. It was like watching Charles Barkley swinging a golf club, just painfully pitiful.
Every MLB player has the ability to hit .400 with power, yet nobody has done it since 1941 when Ted Williams hit .406. Why? Remember, the vast majority of, if not all, MLB coaches have unwittingly or ignorantly been deceived by the false belief that hitting .400 is impossible. This false belief pretty much guarantees that the .400 batting average will not be accomplished. Our subconscious mind must follow our conscious mind’s orders. If we don’t believe we can hit .400, we won’t.
Isn’t it amazing how the two meanest, toughest, and most hated players in Baseball history, Cobb and Hornsby, finished their baseball careers with the two highest lifetime batting averages? Cobb finished at .367 and Hornsby at .358…Lifetime! Of course, these were two intelligent hitters, both fiercely determined to be the best. Both of these men hit .400 or better three times each. It never occurred to either of them that they could not hit .400.
The best 30 consecutive days of hitting in MLB history occurred in 1924 when Rogers Hornsby hit .509. In addition to those 30 days Hornsby added 30 more days for a 60 consecutive day batting average of .489, also a record. Hornsby is the only player who has hit .400 and 40 home runs in the same season. He won two Triple Crowns and was also the top power hitter in the NL winning the Slugging Title a record 9 times!
For the full five seasons of 1921 through 1925, Hornsby’s batting average was .402, the best five year stretch of hitting in history. Hornsby was a great hitter, totally unlike Uggla, because Hornsby always had a specific plan of attack in mind prior to each and every pitch. Ted Williams always said that Rogers Hornsby was the greatest right handed hitter of all time because he combined high batting average with power better than anyone ever has.
Of course, this information is about as welcome to MLB team owners as the news that cannabis cures cancer is to Big Pharma, which is not very. The establishment, controlled by the Ruling Elites, doesn’t want you to know this information. And there is so much more they don’t want you to know. This is only a small piece of a very ugly global criminal enterprise.
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