Uncontrollable Outcomes
Baseball is one of the WORST sports for uncontrollable outcomes.
In boxing, if you get punched in the face…it’s your own fault.
In swimming, if you don’t want to lose you should swim faster.
But in baseball, you can smoke a pitch right into a fielder’s glove. Pitchers can make a great pitch in a tight spot only for a hitter to break his bat on a game-winning blooper. Good and bad luck happens a LOT.
Frustration Kills the Next Play.
Frustration takes a player out of the present moment, out of an attempt to do his job with a singular focus. Frustration time warps a player into the past, where he’s stuck being angry and emotional about ways he got robbed despite doing everything right.
