Since I was 5, I’d spent the majority of my free time outside of the classroom playing baseball.  I played 3 varsity sports in high school (basketball and soccer being the other two), but I never went more then a couple days away from the baseball field even in the off-season.

After playing at Brown and getting an extra four years of baseball that most people don’t get, I really didn’t want it to end.

I converted to a pitcher before my Junior year of college and I knew that as a guy of average size, playing a new position, and coming out of the Ivy League, I was a super long-shot, at best, for pro ball.  But six days after graduating, I heard my name called in the 42nd round and I had the opportunity for more baseball!

After 2 seasons in the Minors and seeing the writing on the wall about my prospects of becoming a Big Leaguers (a topic for another blog), I decided to hang up my cleats and set off on a new adventure in life.  I packed up my car with all my worldly positions (2 bags of clothes, an acoustic guitar, and my glove) and drove to Hermosa Beach with my girlfriend and now wife Marissa.

We had no jobs lined up, nowhere to live, and about $700 to our combined names but we didn’t care!  We were young and we were so close to the ocean that could throw a baseball from our studio apartment above the dumpster behind Sharkees to The Strand – what more could we have wanted?

Well, it took me about 3 days before I started going through total baseball withdrawal.  I didn’t necessarily miss pro ball lifestyle or even playing the game – I knew that my career had run its course and I had zero regrets – but waking up and not going to a baseball field felt really weird.  I knew all ballplayers go through various emotional states after their careers ends as I had many friends who had already been down the “High School  -> College -> Pro Ball -> Retired” path.  Some get angry or disappointed about how their career ended.  Others get excited for new challenges.  Others get burned out and are just  happy not to play anymore.

I didn’t feel any of these things: I just missed being around the game.

A few days later my first bout of “baseball withdrawal,” I found myself showing up at little league fields in the area, completely uninvited, introducing myself to coaches during their practices and asking if I could help out.  I had no thoughts of starting a business around coaching, or even trying to get paid for my time (Bank of America knows I could have used the cash) – I simply went to the fields because that’s where I always felt I belonged.

After a few months of helping with various teams, I started to realize how baseball truly was a bigger  part of who I was than I realized and that despite my playing career being over, I needed to be around the game.  To this day, I never feel more at home or comfortable than I do on a baseball field.

Soon after this realization, “Spring Training” was born and now NINE years later, I still get to go to the ball field every day.  I honestly can’t believe how lucky I am.

Of the 50 players drafted by the Detroit Tigers in 2003, I was one of the first players released, but today I’m only 1 of 2 guys who still get go to the field on daily basis.  (Best of luck to my good buddy Virgil Vasquez who is still chasing the dream in AAA for the Twins!).

As I wrap another lesson season of more than 1000 private workouts with my students and I look ahead, I can’t help but smile knowing that I get to spend the next two and half months on the diamond at Summer Camp with hundreds of Little Leaguers who have the same love of the game that I do.

A full decade removed from being drafted as an 42nd round after-thought, and I’m still going to the ball field every day.

As my old man (and New Yorker) said would, “who wouldda thunk it?”

The wedding was small, about 100 people total, and since James has tons of friends I thought about how hard it must of been for him to decide who to invite. But as I looked around the wedding, I noticed something – all of James’ closest friends were former teammates.

There was a table full of Brown Baseball players and another table full of buddies from his high school football team. The rest of his side of the wedding was family and family friends.

It got me thinking about my wedding 5 years ago and about how my closest friends to this day – without exception – are all friends I made through baseball. My Groomsmen were my brother, and 5 of my best friends from baseball. I didn’t plan on picking baseball friends, it just turned out that all of my strongest friendships were formed through the game. Coach Flikke even officiated the wedding! (We handed baseball cards in the middle of the ceremony – true story!)

We work so hard at the game to be the best we can be, but everyone’s career will end eventually, and all that’s left when that happens are the memories of the experiences and the friendships we built on the field.

So, at the risk of sounding corny, I would encourage parents and players alike to spend a few minutes reflecting on the friendships you’ve formed this season because of baseball and remember that when it’s all said and done, those connections – not statistics, or trophies, or even championships – are what will be remembered most down the road.

I’m sure some of you are thrilled to see your son’s batting average at .750 while others might not be so happy seeing .275, but in reality, a high batting average should not be the goal as a hitter.

Here’s a simple question I ask all my hitting students (and almost none of them get it correct): “Why are you hitting? What’s the purpose of your at-bat?”

Here are the answers I most often get:
“To get a hit”
“To hit a homerun”
“To not strike out”

The real answer is: “To help my team score runs.”

The only mission for the offense is to score runs and there are many ways to help your team do this besides “getting a hit” – this is what’s known as a “Quality At-Bat.”

The definition of Quality AB changes slightly as guys get older, but in Little League I would define it as the following, in no particular order:

1) Getting a hit
2) Hitting the ball hard*
3) Advancing a runner*
4) Driving a run in*
5) Having an at-bat that lasts more than 7 pitches*
6) Taking at least 3 aggressive swings*
7) Drawing a walk (my least favorite)

As you can see, 5 of these definitions (the ones with an “*”) often result in your son getting out – a 0 in the hit column for his batting average. But just because he didn’t get a hit towards his batting average, it does not mean it wasn’t a productive AB. Teams that have all 9 guys trying to accomplish one of the above every time they step to the plate will score tons of runs.

Focusing on Quality At-Bats isn’t a mechanism to justify a low batting average. Rather, it redefines our goals in the batter’s box and allows us to realize that each AB isn’t about “me” getting a hit, but “we” scoring runs.

In the 10th inning of Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, Lance Berkman came to the plate with 2 outs and a runner on 2nd base. With 2 strikes on him and the entire season on the line – he stroked a game tying single.

During the post-game interview he was asked what he was thinking during the at-bat with the season hanging in the balance. He said something to the effect of:

“All I was trying to do was have a good at-bat. I know I’m going to get out 7 out of 10 times so all I tried to focus on was having a good at-bat and trying to hit the ball hard and the rest would take care of itself.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Go ahead and try it. Close your eyes and tell yourself not to think of a pink elephant.

I bet you just had the image of a pink elephant pop into your head. The word “don’t” has no meaning to our brains – all we hear is whatever follows. This simple concept has BIG implications on the diamond.

Last week’s blog started to dig a little deeper into the mental side of baseball for Little Leaguers and focused on some of the fears that cause young players to perform well in practices but struggle in games.

Besides fear of the results, focusing on the negatives during competition can make reaching their full potential really difficult for young athletes. Here’s what I mean: when a batter is afraid of striking out, his brain is saying “don’t strike out, don’t strike out, don’t strike out.” Using the pink elephant example above, all he really is telling himself is “strike out, strike out, strike out” Now, he is completely preoccupied by that negative thought which means he is not thinking about the task at hand, which is hitting the ball hard.

This hitter should be thinking, “I’m going to crush this pitch, I’m going to crush this pitch, I’m going to crush this pitch” Focusing on what you do want to have happen, rather than what you do not want to have happen will greatly increase confidence, concentration, and results.

For pitchers, when they say to themselves (or worse, hear a coach or parent yell), “Don’t walk this guy!” what’s the only thing their ears really heard? That’s right: “walk this guy” And now, by painting that negative picture in their mind before the pitch, it is much more likely that they throw a ball – either because they listen to themselves and throw a ball or because now their mind is focusing on something other than exactly what they want to have happen.

This is what all professional golfers do during their practice swings before hitting a shot, and NBA players do at the free throw line before shooting – they picture success, not failure.

If you’ve ever played golf and told yourself “don’t hit it left” only to then immediately hit it exactly where you just told yourself not to, then you know what precisely what I’m talking about here.

Before every pitch, hitters, pitchers, and positions players should be painting a positive painting in their head about what is about to happen.

When I’m coaching, “don’t” is definitely a 4 letter word!

In the next game, focus on the positives and watch the results improve.

Good luck!

During the roughly 60 lessons I did last week, I had more than a few parents tell me that in the first game, their son looked nothing like player they have seen in pre-season practice or lessons, and I had more than a few players tell me how nervous/anxious they were on Opening Day.

Being nervous during games is extremely common, and a constant challenge for athletes at all levels is to feel as comfortable, confident, and relaxed in games as they do in practice.

For Little Leaguers, this means trying to focus on 2 things during a game: 1) The Process and 2) The Positives. In this blog I’m going to talk about The Process.

1) The Process vs The Result
There are so many things we can’t control during a game and unfortunately, it’s these uncontrollables that often cause the most nerves (fear) in younger guys. For pitchers it sounds like this: “I’m worried he’s going to hit the ball” or “I don’t want to hit the batter” or “The umpire has a small strike zone.” For Batters it sounds like: “I didn’t want to swing and miss” or “I didn’t want to strike out” or “I was worried about getting a stinger.”

These are very common fears at the little league age and by focusing on The Process, rather than The Result, your player will start to feel more comfortable in game settings. Here’s what I mean:

After the pitcher releases the ball from his hand, he no longer has any control over the results of the pitch. Whether the batter swings and misses, swings and hits it, the defense makes the play, the defense makes an error, the umpire says “ball” or “strike” etc is not up to the pitcher. So, by focusing on correct mechanics with the ONLY goal being “THROW A STRIKE,” pitchers will be more successful because they will have far less fear and nervousness as a result of feeling in control of the situation. At its core, not knowing the result of their actions is what causes nervousness and focusing entirely on The Process as a measure of success and failure will lead to more confident and comfortable ballplayers who are capable of reaching their full game potential.

For hitters, the fear of swinging and missing, striking out, or simply making an out, can be completely debilitating. In practice, players do not feel nervous because they are less worried about The Result. They think if they swing and miss in BP or a lesson – who cares? And guess what? They’re right! By not being fearful of the result (easier to do in non-game settings) young players have more confidence, feel more comfortable, and as a result, perform better. So the solution in a game is to focus on The Process of hitting. This means re-framing “success” and “failure” by believing that a successful at-bat is one where they took fundamentally sound, aggressive, and competitive swings – that is what should define a good at-bat, not the result. Once hitters feel they have control of their at-bat (The Process), the fear of failure – and therefore the nervousness – disappears and they will start seeing better results as a natural byproduct of their new attitude and focus.

Before your next game, talk to your son about what he wants to accomplish in terms of The Process and after the game, have him analyze his performance in those terms and not in batting average or ERA.

Here are a few examples of good “Process Goals:”

“I’m going to take at least 7 aggressive swings today.”
“I’m going to be ready to swing at the first pitch of every at-bat.”
“I’m going to keep my head still when I swing.”
“I’m going to throw at least 50% strikes.”
“I’m going to make sure my glove stays in front of my heart through the delivery.”
“I’m going to keep the ball down in the zone.”

I’ll discuss “The Positives” next week.

Good luck!

As anyone who has attended a Spring Training program over the last 9 years can attest, we work extremely hard to emphasize the virtues of hard work, sportsmanship, and respect for umpires and opponents. Additionally, we are absolutely convinced that the best way to teach young athletes is with a positive and encouraging attitude rather than methods that include pressure, yelling, shame, and insults.

The national organization at the forefront of the positive coaching movement is called the Positive Coaching Alliance (positivecoach.org). They work tirelessly to spread this philosophy throughout all youth sports and even recently formed an official partnership with Little League International to help promote “double-goal” coaching. I would encourage you to spend some time at their website – it will only make you a better coach/parent/fan for your ballplayer.

Last week, the @PositiveCoachUS Twitter account posted the following image from a youth hockey rink in the Chicago area.

This simple, yet powerful checklist for making sure that we as parents and coaches (aka role models) are doing our jobs to make sure that youth sports games and practices are fun for the players should be at every field in America!!

(I’m currently in the process of having signs almost exactly like these made and I’d love to get them posted at every Little League Field in the area – please let me know if you league would be interested in getting one from me.)

For a quick read on my personal experiences as a player who was coached by both positive and negative coaches throughout my career (guess which teams won more championships), please read my blog from last year entitled, “Yelling Doesn’t Work.”

See you on the field!

There are 3 types of goals that most Little Leaguers have (whether or not they articulate them) and it’s important to understand the differences between them.

1) The “Dream Big” Goal

This type of goal includes things like “I want to play professional baseball,” or “I want to be President,” or “I want to walk on the moon” and should be encouraged at all times. Not to be a “cynical adult,” but childhood is the only time when we truly believe that these goals are attainable and we should never take that away from our kids.

2) The “Results Oriented” Goal

This is without a doubt the most common type of goal. This type of goal includes things like, “I want to make All-Stars,” or “I want to hit for a .500 average this season” or “I want to have an ERA under 3.00.” These types of goals focus entirely on the result, do not encourage any critical thinking on HOW to accomplish them, and most importantly are largely out of our control.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard something like this from a Little League coach: “Don’t strike out!” (We can talk about the use of the word “don’t” in another blog). Does the phrase “Don’t strike out” give the batter any information about how to avoid striking out? Of course not! We know the batter doesn’t want to strike out, so it’s a pretty pointless thing to say in the first place. But regardless, often “Don’t strike out” becomes a “goal” – and a misguided one at that. If we want to strike out less often, the correct “goal” should be something like: “become a better two strike hitter by choking up on the bat and shortening your swing,” In this instance we have set a goal that CAN be controlled through practice (become a better two strike hitter) AND we have given concrete instructions (choke up, take a shorter swing) that will allow a player to achieve it.

We can apply the same exact concept to the “I want to hit .500″ goal: Rather than focus on the uncontrollable “result” – hitting .500 in this case – lets focus on concrete “process” goals that will allow us to get there. These include, “improve my hand path to the ball” or “be more aggressive early in the count” or “take a smaller stride,” etc.

3) The “Totally in Our Control ‘Process Based’ Goal”:

I just started to introduce this concept above. This is the type of realistic, process based, and completely in our control goal that Little Leaguers (and coaches) should be setting this pre-season. “Let’s win the division” is a silly, results-oriented goal – which team in the league do you think ISN’T trying to win the league!?!?!? But more importantly, this goal tells your team nothing about how you’re going to win the league. “Let’s play great defense by cutting down on the number of free bases we give the other team,” or “We’re going to apply pressure to the other’s team defense by being extremely aggressive at the plate” are great goals because we have clearly defined the “process” for our players that, when executed properly, will produce the ultimately desired result of “Let’s win the division.”

Coaches: set the right kind of goals at practice this pre-season and you’ll get the most out of your players. More importantly they’ll have more fun working hard because your expectations of them are clearly defined and you’ve given them a blueprint success by encouraging them to focus on the controllable process rather than the uncontrollable results.

Players: Baseball is a difficult sport, and you should define success in terms of whether or not you worked hard to improve the process, instead of worrying about the results. Using this method, you will have more fun, feel like you have more control over your season, and will be much more likely to achieve the results you want as a natural by-product of working on the correct process.

]]> http://www.stbaseball.com/setting-goals/feed/ 0 http://www.stbaseball.com/a-thought-for-2013-balance/ http://www.stbaseball.com/a-thought-for-2013-balance/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:29:16 +0000 stbaseba http://www.stbaseball.com/?p=717 I think it’s only naturally to be reflective around birthdays and at the end of the year – for me, these both happen in December and I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about balance.

Balance is a term I use over and over again as a coach. Being balanced during our pitching mechanics allows us to throw more strikes. Being balanced at the plate allows us to be more powerful and consistent. Being balanced while fielding a groundball allows us to react to bad hops. The list goes on.

But I’ve also been thinking about balance in terms of my life in general. There are tons of things I enjoy doing. I love spending time with my wife. I love my job. I love playing golf. I love reading. I love playing poker. I love traveling. A constant challenge, however, is finding the right balance in terms of how I spend my time. I love my job, but if I spend too much time focused on work, the other areas of my life suffer. I love traveling with my wife, but obviously can’t constantly put the rest of my life on hold in order to take trips. I love reading, but when I fall into a great book, I literally get nothing else accomplished until it’s finished. Playing a poker tournament is a blast, but means I’ll miss time at home with my wife and dogs. And so on.

I’d like to think that as I get a little older that I’m doing a better job of finding balance in my life, but it’s definitely not easy.

With the Little League season (and a new year) fast approaching, I think it’s a good time to think about balance for our young athletes. I’ve always encouraged the kids I coach to play other sports. Why? Because the athletic balance is healthy. Getting after it in the classroom is incredibly important, but elementary and middle school teachers who assign 5 hours of homework a night are not allowing for balance. Spending time with friends away from the Little League diamond is a awesome, but 9 hour X-Box marathons at a sleep-over the night before a game is not a great idea. As parents, coaches, and teachers I think we should be encouraging balance for our kids.

Yes, it’s almost baseball season and I want to spend as much time on the field over the next 9 months as possible. Why? Because I absolutely love being around the game and helping young players develop their skills and passion for baseball. But I also know that if I spend too much time at the field, the other areas of my life will suffer.

The same thing goes for a young athlete: spend too much time on one sport, and not only do we run the risk that it will stop being fun and exciting for them, but it leaves little time for other activities.

I know it’s unusual for a baseball coach to say “go play other sports,” but I’ve been around the game long enough to know that time away from the field (i.e. balance) is crucial to our enjoyment of and longevity in the sport.

My wish for 2013 is for all the ballplayers I coach to find a balance – school, sports, family, friends, just being a kid – that works for them.

Have a great Holiday and I look forward to seeing you on the field soon!!!!

- Dan

]]> http://www.stbaseball.com/a-thought-for-2013-balance/feed/ 0 http://www.stbaseball.com/why-i-coach/ http://www.stbaseball.com/why-i-coach/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:56:31 +0000 stbaseba http://www.stbaseball.com/?p=614 I think it’s important in life to frequently ask ourselves why we do certain things.  I’ve always tried to do things for the right reasons and I’ve found that the occasional self-examination can go a long way towards making sure I’m properly motivated in all areas of my life.
I first started asking myself “why am I doing this?” in high school when many of my friends quit baseball in order to play lacrosse.  (Please keep in mind that I’m married to one of the best lacrosse coaches in California and this anecdote is in no means “anti-lacrosse” nor is it exclusive to sports).
When I asked my friends, many of whom I had played ball with since little league, why they were leaving baseball for lacrosse the most common answer I got was, “so I can get into an Ivy League school.”  In the area I grew up in and at the private school I went to in Washington, DC, lacrosse was absolutely the feeder sport to the Ivy League, and with so few high schools across the country having lacrosse programs, my friends were right – good grades and decent lacrosse skills greatly increased your chances of being recruited by an Ivy League school.
That said, their answer never made sense to me.  I could never image dedicating that much time and energy to something that I didn’t love.  For some of them, it worked out – they got recruited and got to go to a great school.  For others, they got got overlooked by college coaches and ended up applying to college based on grades alone (nothing wrong with that, by the way), but wasted 4 years of high school playing a sport they didn’t really enjoy.  Still others used lacrosse to get in and then promptly quit as freshman because they never really loved the sport in the first place – it was just means to an end.  As any college athlete can attest, D1 sports is such an enormous time commitment that you’ve got to really love it to keep playing.
I never played ball for any reason other than that I flat out LOVED it.  I didn’t play in middle school in order to try to make the high school team.  I didn’t play in high school because I wanted to get recruited and play in college.  I didn’t play in college because Iwanted to play professionally.  I was fortunate to have all those things happen for me during my career, but the “next level” was never the motivation.  I just kept playing because I loved every second of it.  I loved practice, I loved games, I loved my teammates, I loved hitting, I loved catching, I loved fielding groundballs, I loved catching flyballs, I loved pitching, I loved working my butt off and seeing results – there was (and still is) literally nothing I don’t love about baseball.
So what does all this have to do with the title of the blog?
Every year around mid-May – if I’m going to be totally honest - I start getting pretty burned out.  By that time, I’ve done over 1100 one-on-one private lessons in 5 month’s time and have thrown somewhere close to 110,000 batting practice pitches in the cage.  My body is hurting, I’m emotionally drained from giving everything I have in me to every single lesson 40 hours a week, and I can’t wait to take a week off just to decompress.  (And every single time I take even a few days off, I can’t wait to get back on the field!)  But sometimes, when I’m completely exhausted physically and totally drained mentally, I’ll get home from the cage at 9:30pm on Friday night while my friends with “normal” jobs are out at dinner or a movie or spending time with their families, I ask myself, “why am I doing this?”  Not in a cynical way, but just as a little check-in with myself to make sure I’m coaching for the right reasons.  
Many times a year, when I ask myself that important question, something like what I saw earlier this week immediately gives me my answer and I know that I’m still in it for the right reasons.
The 2012 Summer Camp season started this week with the half-day camp in Palos Verdes for the 4-6 year olds.  Every year, I always have several former campers ask to volunteer as junior coaches and this week is no different - I’ve got 4 former campers who probably, all combined, participated in over 75 total weeks of camp as players from the time they were 4 year olds until last year.
Now they’re helping to coach the next crop of players and it’s just awesome to be around their enthusiasm for baseball, desire to help the little guys, and to see their sense of responsibility to the local baseball community (whether they fully realize it or not) to ensure there is another generation of little leaguers who fall in love with the sport.  They genuinely want to give the little guys in camp the same incredible experience they had as summer campers.  There’s no pay, there’s no thought of the “next level,” there are no fans in the stands watching them coach, no pictures in the newspaper,  no “coaching all-star team.”
There’s just the love of the game and the joy of being on the diamond.
My 4 junior coaches this week are all good ballplayers and I hope they get to play as long as they want.  However, like everyone who has ever put on a uniform and spikes, at some point their playing careers will end.  But their passion for baseball, their sense of community, and their feeling of responsibility to the game will stay with them forever.
Knowing that I played a role in developing their love of baseball is why I coach.  It’s also why after just one week away from the game, I can’t wait to get back on the field again and couldn’t be more fired up for Summer Camp – and for all the right reasons too.
See you this summer.
Dan
]]> http://www.stbaseball.com/why-i-coach/feed/ 0 http://www.stbaseball.com/610/ http://www.stbaseball.com/610/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 00:24:16 +0000 stbaseba http://www.stbaseball.com/?p=610 With the regular season winding down and post-season tournaments and All-Stars right around the corner, it’s extremely important to make sure our players are as prepared mentally as they are physically.  While this advice absolutely applies to regular season games, often “big games” amplify the pressure to succeed personally and win, so I thought now would be a good time to address this topic.
1) Coaches: in your pre-game speeches and in practices leading up a “big game,” put your emphasis on encouraging your team to execute the individual parts of the game that you believe will give your squad a better chance of success.  By this I mean that we should be focusing on “staying aggressive at the plate” or “hitting our cutoff man on relays” rather than “we have to win”  or “tomorrow’s a big game.”   The “we have to win” strategy not only puts more pressure on the team, but actually doesn’t address the process required to win.  Focus on what you believe needs to be accomplished in order to win, not on the actual result of winning.  Your team will play with much more confidence because the boys will have a clear set of instructions (the process) and the less they think about winning (the results), the less pressure they’ll feel, and the better they’ll play!
2) Parents: If you sense your son is nervous before a big game (or even if they’re not), remind them how proud you are of them win or lose, as long as they give their best effort on the field.  With most kids, the pressure they feel in sports is a result of wanting to make you as parents proud of them, so if you can remind them that you will be most proud if they give a tremendous effort, they will not only have a better sense of control during the game, but will relax knowing that your focus as a parent isn’t entirely on winning or great personal statistics – two things that are almost entirely out of any 1 player’s hands.  We never know when we show up to the field if we’re going to have 4 hits at the plate or 4 strikeouts – the statistics and results in baseball are largely out of the player’s control.  But effort, attitude, sportsmanship, etc are things all players have control over on a daily basis and success in little league should be defined in those terms, and not necessarily by what’s on the scoreboard or in the scorebook.
3) Players: In Little League, there really is no such thing as a “big game.”  Think about it, if you go 4-4 with 4 grand slams, are you going to get called up to the Dodgers to hit clean-up instead of Matt Kemp?   Nope.  You’ll go home after the game to hang out with your friends, do your homework, spend time with your family, and so on.  If you go 0-4 with 4 strikeouts, are you going to get kicked out little league?  Will your baseball career end?   Are your parents going to stop loving you?  Of course not.  You’ll go home after that game to hang out with your friends, do your homework, spend time with your family, and so on.  So if your life will not change after the game win, lose, or draw, is there really pressure?  I don’t think so.
Of course you’d rather win than lose, rather get 4 hits than 0 hits, but the pressure you put on yourself because it’s a “big game” usually only makes you play tighter and more nervous.   I don’t know of a single athlete on the planet who plays their best under those conditions.
PLAY LOOSE, PLAY HARD, HAVE FUN, FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL, AND THE REST WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF!!!
GOOD LUCK!
- Coach Spring
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