It’s Not An Easy Game || Baseball Dudes LLC

I always tell parents that if they want their kids to learn how to deal with failure, have them play baseball. Like the title says, “It’s Not An Easy Game”. Major league hitters are great players getting only 3 hits in every 10 at bats. Major league pitchers are considered good when they allow 1 run every 2 innings. Think about it, that is your opponent beating you very often!!

Players need to be taught at a young age that failure is a part of life. It’s how they respond to those moments of failure which will make them either a strong or weak person. In baseball, there is always a tomorrow where you can redeem yourself. If you make a bad play, give up a homerun or strike out in a key situation, all you can do is learn from it. If you let that moment get the best of you, it’s going to be a long road (or short one with all the failures that happen in baseball).

As a parent, it’s hard to watch your kids fail out there on the field. Do your best to help them understand that moments like that will happen their whole life and how the right way to handle it is. When they fail, be sure to point out to them all the great hits-plays-pitches they have made in their life. Explain to them that even the guys they watch on TV fail and have bad games. Also help them to understand that this won’t be the last time they will have a bad day and that they need to learn something from every single failure they have in life, on and off the field.

It’s Not An Easy Game and that’s why those guys we watch on TV are so good. They have trained so much that they fail less than others and are great at dealing with the failures that happen every day.

Be great at dealing with failure and you will be a successful person on and off the field. The ones who jump up after falling, are the ones who will have a better chance at being successful at whatever they do.

Chris Gissell (172 Posts)

Founder of Baseball Dudes. Blessed with three beautiful children and an amazing wife. Baseball is my life, after my family, and I love sharing what I have learned from it. Thanks for taking the time to view what we offer here at Baseball Dudes.

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I’ve been instructing for I don’t know how many years. At first it was just something I did during the off seasons but had no idea what it was leading to.

Fast forward to 2012, the Angels gave me an opportunity to lead their young draft picks, teach them the game and how to be a professional, my eyes were opened. Since then my appreciation and understanding of coaching has grown deep. The amount of time coaches put in, the level of patience required, the attention to detail necessary, the consistent body language needed to lead by example, the understanding of what’s really important and what’s not, the importance of being able to relate to all different personalities, athleticism and abilities, the fact that being a good coach means consistently growing ourselves and coming to the realization that the one thing that matters most in all of this is finding ways to use the game to help them prepare for all those years when they are not playing the game.

I need to say Thank You to all my past coaches and to all the current coaches who take pride in giving the kids in front of them what they need on top of baseball skills. It’s often a thankless role but remember that no matter where they go in the game, they are going somewhere in life. That’s our mission.

– Chris Gissell

“My purpose, MY WHY, is to provide for my family, while also doing everything I can to develop quality people through the many life lessons that Baseball provides daily.”

17 Years Professional Experience (14 as a player, 3 as a coach). MLB debut 8/22/2004 with the Colorado Rockies. Retired from professional coaching on 10/31/14 to focus on family and developing youth baseball players full time.

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