| by
Stacy Mahoe
Allaboutfastpitch.com
It’s
game time. Your team needs you. The ball is coming. You’re
soooo nervous. Aughhh! Another error! Why can’t you field
the ball as well as you do in practice? You’ve made that play
5 million times before in practice. Okay, maybe not 5 millions times,
but you know what I mean. * sigh * You’re forgetting! “It’s
just a ground ball.”
So
what if it’s the bottom of the 7th, your team is up by one
run, there are two outs, and the tying run is on 3rd? Don’t
let that ground ball fool you! It’s not the big, bad,
mean old ground ball that’s going to chew you up and spit
you out for dinner. It’s just the same old, boring,
routine grounder that you’ve seen again and again in practice.
The same one that you’ve fielded a million times before without
a problem. Okay, maybe not a million, but probably a thousand.
So
what if it’s the championship game your team has worked so
hard for all season? So what if there’s a bunch of college
scouts out in the bleachers watching your every move? So what if
you’re playing in front of more people than you’ve ever
played in front of before in your entire life? So what if the game
is on TV and there are thousands more people watching at home? So
what if it’s the ground ball that’s going to make you
the hero of the day and bring home the championship your team has
never won before? That doesn’t change what it is.
It’s just a ground ball. No different than that ground
ball that’s a piece of cake in practice. In fact it’s
an easier ground ball than all those laser shots your coach hits
at you day after day, week after week, year after year, your whole
softball career and
you handled those just fine.
You look that ground ball right in the eye and you see it
for what it is!
It’s
just a ground ball.
…….See it travel all the way into your glove…….
…….Bring it right into your body with those soft hands
that you have…….
…….Now nice and easy…….
…….make your throw as perfect as you always do
* sigh * now wasn’t that easy?
You
got that out!
You won that championship!
You’re the hero of the day!
All because you remembered…. It’s just a ground
ball.
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