The Chicago Cubs have been my favorite major league baseball team for a long time now. I've seen them have plenty of difficulties over the years, but I'm starting to get tired of them consistently being an average team within the MLB. The Cubs had a lot of potential going into the start of this year's season, but somehow managed to squander it when it mattered the most for them. The teams lack of consistency is apparent to almost every Cubs fan. One game they could perform very poorly and lose by a lot of runs, and the next game against the same team they can absolutely crush the team. Thats due their bullpen, defense and. hitting. Usually if you want to win a baseball game, you want to be able to hit the baseball. Apparently, that's a very hard thing to do for some of the Cubs players. Despite being skillful enough to be a part of the MLB, they just cannot make contact. If players make contact, it's against a mediocre team that a high school te...
In baseball, timing your swing to each pitcher is very important. Pitchers throw at different speeds and throw some types of pitches more than others. When you go to time up your swing, you’re “on deck,” and you’re the next batter to go hit against the pitcher. In this blog post, Ill describe how to properly time up your swing. The first thing you do when timing up your swing is getting into your batting stance. A batting stance is the position you put yourself in when swinging your baseball bat around. Next you turn towards the pitcher so that you're facing him and it's easier to see the ball release from his hand. As the pitcher winds up to throw his pitch, you start to wind up your swing. This involves lifting your leg front leg and cocking your arms back with the bat to get more power on your swing. Once you identify the pitch and speed, you then complete your swing by dropping your front leg and throwing your arms forward which swings the bat forward. Repeat these steps a...
Baseball in my opinion is one of the best sports out there. As good as it can be though, there can also be problems with it. One of these problems is steroids. Steroids have cast a long, dark shadow over baseball raising questions about fairness and integrity of the game. For decades baseball was "the American dream," where skill and dedication could elevate a player. However, this ideal has been more complicated within the last twenty years with the more recent rise in steroids. The use of steroids in baseball has created a divide between players that don't and do use steroids. The players who don't use steroids strive for success through their natural talent, while the players that use steroids try to gain an advantage through "cheating." One of the biggest issues with steroids in baseball is the blow it makes to integrity. Baseball batting records are a very important aspect of the game. When a player hits a ball while on steroids, it often res...
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