This should be good.
McGwire: See, what you want to be doing is hitting dingers.
McGwire: When you go up there, first pitch, you're looking dead red so you can hit a dinger.
McGwire: Sometimes you're gonna miss. That's okay. Stick to your guns. There's no more efficient way of scoring than hitting a dinger. That's what we want to be doing.
McGwire: The pitcher might pick up on your strategy. Don't worry about it. He's more afraid of you than you are of him.
McGwire: If he throws you something offspeed, like a curveball, don't be fooled. Just hit it for a dinger.
McGwire: Walks are good too. If the pitcher tries to get you to chase something out of the zone, don't swing at it.
McGwire: You only want to swing at strikes. Take balls. Hit strikes for dingers.
McGwire: Now let's break up and practice. Group A, get in there. I want to see you guys hitting dingers. Group B, practice your dinger swings.
McGwire: Who's first in Group A? Skip? Get in there, Skip.
McGwire: Let's see some dingers!
Schumaker:
Schumaker: Coach, I don't
McGwire: What're you doing over there?
McGwire: You're standing on the wrong side of the plate. Bat righty.
McGwire: You hit dingers batting righty.
19 recs | 54 comments
Once again Jeff, you outdo yourself.
Coach Owens - October 25, 2009
This is spectacularly funny.
CapSea - October 25, 2009
Great stuff
I was wondering if McGwire learned something in his abysmal 1991, and I wanted to see who the hitting coach was that year. I think, though I’m not 100% certain, that was Reggie Jackson’s sole year in the job. The A’s OBP/OPS/everything tumbled that year, though nobody was impacted more than McGwire. At least McGwire may have a decent example of what NOT to do….
marc w - October 25, 2009
Maybe, but his BABIP was .212 that season
Poochie - October 25, 2009
Same as it was in 1989.
And that doesn’t explain his drop in ISO – his only year under .200.
He needed more dingers.
marc w - October 26, 2009
Wikipedia to the rescue!
Poochie - October 26, 2009
I received visual therapy after my marriage difficulties, too.
I call it “porn”.
iglew - October 28, 2009
Also, I'm extremely happy this was posted 162 days before Rob Johnson's first at bat.
CapSea - October 25, 2009
We really could have used a hitting coach like this.
We didn’t hit many dingers.
Matthew - October 25, 2009
Or walk very much.
lailaihei - October 25, 2009
Walking doesn't drive in runs like dingers do.
JY - October 25, 2009
Walking is a totally different form of transportation than driving,
so there you go.
Two Rs and Two Ls - October 25, 2009
That's because Griffey is the only one on the team that can hit dingers
Everyone else just hits homers.
Robert - October 25, 2009
Are you fucking illiterate?
Matthew - October 25, 2009
You hit fuck blasts batting lefty.
CapSea - October 25, 2009
Not in the AL retard.
Robert - October 25, 2009
What was Mcguire hitting when he played in Oakland then fuckhole?
Kirk - October 25, 2009 via mobile
???
Ballard Erik - October 26, 2009
Didn't see that coming.
Goose - October 25, 2009
Should I be happy about this?
vivaelpujols - October 25, 2009
No idea!
Jeff Sullivan - October 25, 2009
This is like Griffey returning to Seattle except he won't fuck up the team on the field
Poochie - October 25, 2009
At least not directly
vivaelpujols - October 25, 2009
Did you know that McGwire invented the dinger?
Robert - October 25, 2009
Mark McGwire doesn't want to talk about the past
He wants to talk about hitting dingers
lemonverbena - October 25, 2009
Do you want to know the truth or watch me sock some dingers? Dingers!
njd.aitken - October 25, 2009
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Goose - October 25, 2009
THIS IS LITERALLY THE GREATEST NEWS EVER
Poochie - October 25, 2009
!!!
Poochie - October 25, 2009
I can't stop looking!
vivaelpujols - October 25, 2009
It's not unusual.
JLProck - October 25, 2009
Totally unrelated, 2010 Albert Pujols will make 2009 Yuniesky Betancourt look like 2009 Albert Pujols.
CapSea - October 26, 2009
Glad to see him back in the game; he never deserved to be ostracized.
stupidquestions - October 25, 2009
Is it ostracism if you turn your back on any approaches from baseball?
msb - October 25, 2009
He is not in the hall of fame
Poochie - October 25, 2009
I think it's ostracism
When you bury your head in the sand.
seattlecougar - October 26, 2009
And by ostracized
I meant not just baseball but the fans/media who cheered him on in ’98 without giving a crap what else might have been going on and then turned on the outrage after his appearance at Congress.
stupidquestions - October 25, 2009
"If he throws you something offspeed, like a curveball, don't be fooled. Just hit it for a dinger."
♥
lemonverbena - October 25, 2009
Wlad needed this advice.
Wilder. - October 25, 2009
Still a chance for Halman!
EnglishMariner - October 26, 2009
Letttttttttttttttsssseeeeeeeeeeeee. Open your hips a bit more. Then you'll hit that dinger.
msb - October 25, 2009
I can't think of any sports figure who's has more mistreatment at the hands of the press
Poochie - October 25, 2009
Barry Bonds
Ricky Williams (RB Miami)
Dick Allen
Ballard Erik - October 26, 2009
Derek Jeter.
abender20 - October 26, 2009
Brett Favre
Wilder. - October 26, 2009
Nope
Poochie - October 26, 2009
Ricky Williams definitely has
and I always disliked that guy
jessef - October 26, 2009
Steve Phillips
Trenchtown - October 26, 2009
Steve Phillips deserves what he gets.
It doesn’t matter if he gets it for the wrong thing. He still gets it.
Llewdor - October 26, 2009
Dennis Rodman
lemonverbena - October 26, 2009 via mobile
Milton Bradley
Harry Pavlidis - October 26, 2009
From the presser today
<a href=“http:// ”http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbn_cardinals_la_russa" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbn_cardinals_la_russa " target="new">today: "McGwire was not at the news conference at Busch Stadium, but La Russa and general manager John Mozeliak said there will be no effort to shield McGwire from questions about steroids. The team anticipated a telephone news conference with McGwire. “By no means is he trying to hide, and by no means are we trying to hide him,” Mozeliak said."
msb - October 26, 2009
Crap.
here
msb - October 26, 2009
interesting
testimonials and theory
msb - October 26, 2009
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