Who Does It Better? Men or Women?

What do you think?

Who does the softball coaching job better?

Men or women?

Women, I think, have an advantage as far as being able to relate to the players and understand them. However, men can sometimes get a response out of players that most women can't/don't get.

Then again, others will say that gender doesn't matter, it's the individual themselves that does.

BUT, "in general" - what's your opinion?

Are men better at coaching women's softball or do women do a better job coaching female softball players?

If you're a Fastpitch World member - you can answer this question in the forum. If not, leave a
comment here and let me know what you think. I'm interested to see what you have to say.

Who does it better?

From Then 'Till Now

Just this evening I had a number of thoughts come to mind about how things have changed in the past 20 years. My daughter is playing in Bobby Sox tournaments as I did 20 years ago. She's also playing ASA, but we gave Bobby Sox try this year and that's primarily what's bringing about all these thoughts on change.

Of course, Bobby Sox, in and of itself is one of the major things that crossed my mind. Bobby Sox is nothing like what it used to be. In Hawaii, from a league that had a number of different associations with multiple teams per age division per association to a league with where just 3 districts participate locally. It's just much smaller than it used to be and the age divisions and minimum play rules have changed a little bit too.

Now-days ASA is a huge deal. When I was growing up, I had never really even heard of ASA until I was older. Yet 20 years later, my 7-year-old has played ASA for 3 seasons already.

Okay, I just realized, this post is going to make me feel old...LOL.

...but I'll go on...

Tonight I saw a base bag for the first time in a looooooong, long time. I remember having to help our coaches put away bases after every practice. We had to get all those bases with straps and pegs into that big duffle with the pin that secured the top portion of the bag shut. I don't think my daughters would even know what to look for if you told them to go get the bag for the bases.

Then there's the face mask requirement. I've gotten so used to seeing young ladies play with face masks that, now, when I see a player without one it looks so "dangerous." Yet, when the face mask became mandatory for batting helmets in youth leagues, I was right there with the girls feeling all the frustration of having to switch over. I was glad that change hadn't been made when I was playing because I really wouldn't have wanted to hit with a mask on. As a mother though, I'm so glad my girls are wearing one.

We can't forget those racer back jerseys so many players love. There was none of that around when I was playing. Even playing in a sleeveless jersey was a stretch for my imagination. When I saw all the teams coming out with the racer back jerseys and shorts, I seriously began to think that, one day, girls would be playing softball in those skimpy volleyball-type uniforms.

After the popularity of the racer back came the emergence of those little black velcro things that scrunch up the shoulder or back of the jersey. I don't even know what they're called and I've been searching can't find them online without knowing what the proper term for them are. If you know what they're called, please post a comment here and fill in the blank for me. I'm sure it'll come to me later, but if you get to it before me, please, post it in a comment here.

Oh yes, and we can't forget....Under Armour! I used to wear those 3/4 sleeve undershirts and think it was so cool. But now, it's all about the even "cooler" (and more expensive) Under Armour that the players HAVE to have. I don't even know if my daughters realize that Under Armour was unheard of when I was their age. Eeek!

And, of course, the bats! Gosh, I can only imagine what kind of stats I could have had if we had today's bat technology when I was playing! My hands certainly wouldn't have stung as much that's for sure...and I probably would have had more than 1 home-run per year in high school. Maybe some of those hard hit grounders would have made it through the infield. Whenever I see a young lady hit a towering line shot, I always think of how fun it would have been to use that type of high performance bat during my career.

Anyway - those are just a few of the things that come to mind tonight as I think about what has changed since I was playing as my daughters are now. Other things include offensive/defensive strategy, pitching technique, attitudes of players, perspective and philosophy on strength training/conditioning/stretching, the whole "travel ball" concept, and I'm sure there's more, but I'll stop there because all that's getting a little too serious for me. We could probably get into all kinds of good discussions along those lines. But back to the "lighter" side of this topic...What else do you have to add?

Don't Throw Hard

"Don't throw hard. Just throw strikes."

Eek! I cringe when I heard coaches or fathers saying these words to their young (or maybe even not so young) pitchers. I know I'm guilty of it sometimes too. Well, not the "Don't throw hard" part, but the part when I see a pitcher trying to hard to be too "fine" and I just want the ball in the zone because I know the batter isn't going to do much, I catch myself saying something to the effect of just having the pitcher get the ball over the plate.

But I do NOT tell a pitcher to slow down in order to gain more accuracy.

So many times I hear young pitchers being told to slow the ball down and not throw hard in exchange for strikes. More often than not what I end up seeing is this young pitcher begin to throw both slow AND wild. So she just went from having 1 issue (not throwing accurately) to having 2 issues (not throwing accurately AND not throwing with any speed/power).

How often to you hear coaches telling their infielders, "Don't throw hard, just get the ball to the 1st baseman's chest." I don't know, maybe you hear something like that on occasion. I personally can't think of a time I've heard that though. If we don't use this "logic" for throwing overhand, why do so many insist upon using it for throwing underhand, for pitching?

I know some young pitchers try to "aim" the ball on their own. My 8-year-old does this. She starts of throwing nice and strong. Sometimes she's a little off - the ball is the right height, but off left or right OR the ball is straight, but too high or too low. These are very minor "problems." Yet, she will try to slow down to gain more accuracy. It NEVER works. She still throws off the plate, sometimes even worse than when she was going all out, and her ball has very little on it.

So I just remind her that she's not gaining much by trying to go slower. I ask her if the ball was going straighter (where she wanted it to) when she was throwing slow. She always says, "No." So she's beginning to realize that's not the answer. She's starting to correct the part of her motion that IS causing the inaccuracy (releasing too late or too early, not keeping her arm swing close to her body, not stepping toward the target, etc).

The results are much better with those kinds of adjustments than they are with "slowing down" to gain increase accuracy.

I talk a little more about this in the most recent Fastpitch Talk Radio episode. It's just a short episode and you can listen to it HERE.

Free Juicing Information

No, I'm not talking about steriod juicing. I'm talking about the real, fresh fruit and vegetable juicing.

This past year was the busiest softball season I've EVER been a part of. I had virtually no time to cook and my family relied on fast food and take out way more than I would have liked.

Because of the busy season, my daughter's quest to gain weight, my husband's quest to lose weight, our lack of time, and my positive first experience with juicing, I decided that I wanted to learn more about juicing to see if it could help our family.

Are there really health benefits to juicing or is juicing just one of those "health fads?"

Does juicing really provide a nutritional alternative to other beverages and snacks?

What juicer should I use?

What should I juice?

As you can imagine, I had lots of questions. I didn't even know where to start. The one and only time I had tried juicing was at a breakfast buffet and I loved it. However, no one I know juices so I didn't really have anyone to point me in the right direction as far as getting started with juicing. So....I did a bunch of research on my own and put most of it together for you so that you wouldn't have to go searching all over the internet for the information you need to:

~ see how juicing can help you
~ answer your questions about juicing
~ get started with juicing

If you've ever wondered about juicing or wanted more information on getting started, visit www.FastpitchJuicing.com for free juicing information and free juicing articles.

Speed Training e-Book For You

Okay, I did get that e-book uploaded so that you can download it to your computer. There is no charge, no strings, and no credit card required. Simply click on the link and begin reading

The Complete Speed Training Report: Secrets to Dominant Speed in Every Athlete.

This report was created by Patrick Beith of Athlete's Acceleration who gave me permission to give this report away to you for free. Here are the few things you'll learn in this free 35 page report:

***7 secrets to dominant speed
***The importance of strength training
***How To develop explosive power in your athletes (a great asset for any softball player)
***3 Steps to improving agility (another important asset for softball players)
***Find out what one of the most widely ignored aspects in speed development is and what you can do to address this area in your own training
***The RIGHT way to use conditioning to improve speed

Click Here to download get this Free Speed Training Report now.

Fun 8U Moments

Here are the pictures I promised in my last post. It's from the first game of the season for my two daughters who play 8U. They were all excited because it was their first game and they had just gotten their new helmets, uniforms, bags, and jackets. They hadn't seen their uniform jerseys until that day, so at the end of this post I'll tell you what they told me about their uniform after I got home from my game that day.

But first, there are the pictures...

Two sisters at the field early on a Saturday morning




Big smile from my 8-year-old


Hmmm...looks like my 6-year-old is giving signals LOL


When I got home from my game that day, my girls were already out of their uniform. I hadn't seen it yet because they got it right before the game. So after I got home the both wanted to show my their uniform. My 8-year-old goes,

"Mom! You wanna see our jerseys?"

Before I could finish the word "Yes" she's off and running to go get her jersey.

My 6-year-old runs after her while she yells out, "Oh yeah! You wanna see our jerseys? They're so (now I'm waiting for her to say cool! or awesome! or something, but she says) preeettyyy!" *sigh*

I have a feeling that one will be choosing a bat based on color and appearance some time in the future. LOL

Use Your iPhone to Count Pitches

Wow, I just learned something new today! You can use your iPhone to count pitches. Of all the things an iPhone can do, I probably think this one is the coolest. LOL

I don't have an iPhone (my husband has one though), but I thought some of you out there might have one and be able to utilize iPitch.

This is what iPitch does:

• Displays total pitches.
• Displays total strikes and balls.
• Displays percentage of strikes thrown.
• Tracks up to 5 pitchers.
• Select your pitch mark, and it will flash red once it is reached.

Kinda cool huh? Learn more at ipitch.us.

I'm Not Ready

As I've said before, I'm so glad to have 8U softball in my life for now. It's always so refreshing to see the excitement of the players at this age! This past weekend, two of my daughters participated in their first 8U games of the season (I'll share a few pictures later this week).

Just a few weeks back I mentioned a few Sue Enquist Video clips. In one of them she talks about how preparing for a game helps take away anxiety and nervousness. I had just talked to the high school players I coach about this topic not long ago as well. So I found it quite interesting when, on the way to school on Friday morning (the day before my daughters first games), out of the blue my 6-year-old says,

"Mom, I'm not ready."

"Not ready for what?" I ask her (we weren't even on the subject of softball, we were just listening to music, riding in the car).

"For my game tomorrow," she says.

I didn't know what to say. My first thought was that it was obviously bugging her if she was thinking about it when we weren't even in a softball setting. Then I immediately began wondering what it was that was making her feel like she wasn't ready. I just couldn't imagine what would be going through a 6-year-old's mind to make her think that she wasn't prepared enough for her first game of the season.

All I could think of to tell her was that she'd been doing lots of practicing in all these weeks leading and that I was sure she would do fine. I was just surprised that she would give any thought to whether or not she was "ready."

She ended up doing quite well though. She played outfield so she didn't have any action on defense, but out of the 3 times she went up to bat she got on base twice. I have no idea if she got on on actual hits or on errors because I wasn't able to make the game since I had a game of my own. My husband was there, but he didn't exactly give me all those types of details. He said she was 2-3, but he's not exactly a "real" scorekeeper and I don't even know if he knows all the rules about how to figure out hitting stats and such. I imagine there was some kind of error along the way in at least one of those plays, but it doesn't really matter. My husband did take a bunch of pictures for me so that I could "see" some of that day so I was happy about that.

This weekend, my game doesn't overlap with theirs so I'll be able to watch be there this time. I can't wait!

Finally Getting Heads Up Baseball

Yes! I finally did it. I finally ordered my very own copy of Heads Up Baseball. It's the book that many, many AAF Members swear by and give their team as required reading. It's the book that I have people write to me about. These people often attribute at least a part their team's success to their players having read this book. So, since my taxes are done and I have a little extra spending money, I'm finally getting the book for myself. None of the local bookstores had it and I couldn't find it in the library, so I had to order it online. But, it's on it's way to me as I type, so I can't wait to get it.

I'm also getting Tom Hanson's new book, Who Will Do What By When, which is a great book for anyone trying to lead a team, whether on the field or in an office. I'm actually getting a few extra copies of this one so that the other coaches I work with can read it too.

If Tom Hanson sounds familiar, he is the co-author of Heads Up Baseball and he is also the guy that runs the Confidence website. He helps players and coaches get up to par with training for the mental aspect of the game. You can check out his website and sign up for his free newsletter at www.GetSoftballConfidence.com. He's got some other cool freebies there as well (look for the "Free Stuff" link), like the 5-day course I just finished "5 Steps to Unstoppable Confidence." Go check it out.

Fastpitch Vision Training Drills

It's been a while since I mentioned Fastpitch Vision Training, but if you haven't had a chance to check out that website yet, there is a lot of free information on vision training there.

With that said, I just wanted to let you know that in addition to some of the sample drills there, you can find more drills at Be A Better Hitter. Maybe some of those free drills will help your players improve their batting.

There's also an interesting article on the importance of visual training for pitchers. Of course, this article is written for baseball, but I think most of it also applies to fastpitch softball as well. You can read the article here.

I'm also working on getting some new articles up at www.FastpitchVisionTraining.com. I'll let you know when that's completed.

Must See College Information

Softball National Letter of Intent signing is right around the corner and this time of year is often when players, parents, and coaches give some thought to making it to the college level.

So what do you need to know or do to get to the collegiate level? Or to help your daughter get there? Or help other players you know get there?

The good news is there ARE specific things you can do, specific steps you can take, to greatly increase your chances of making that happen.

Let me tell you a little story...

A few years ago I was asked to attend a college recruiting seminar. In fact, this seminar was mandatory for all the coaches at the high school I coach at. Now, I'll be honest, I reallydidn't want to go. I was working a full time job at the time, and I was coaching, and I was about 8 months pregnant with my 4th child. Seriously, if it wasn't really necessary for me to stay another 1 1/2 - 2 hours after practice, then I didn't want to do it. After all, I had been through the process. What was the speaker going to tell me that I didn't already know? I honestly thought it was going to be a big waste of time. I mean I already knew grades were important. I knew that college coaches DO look at player attitude. I already knew what I had gone through during my journey to playing softball in college, etc, etc, etc. But I went to the seminar, albeit reluctantly, and expected to be bored during the next hour or two while some guy from out of state talked about how to become a college athlete.

Thankfully for me, and for the other coaches who attended, this speaker (and President and Founder of the company he represented) was MUCH better than I ever expected. By the end of the seminar I was completely BLOWN AWAY! The thing that kept running through my mind was the EVERY high school athlete, parent, and coach in Hawaii NEEDED to hear this message. The information provided was absolutely invaluable for anyone involved in the life of a high school student-athlete who had any aspiration to play their sport at the collegiate level.

So what's in it for you? Well...just a few days ago, I got a call from the President of this company that goes around the country speaking at high schools. I just found out that their program, which educates student-athletes, parents, coaches, and counselors about the college recruiting process, is much more readily available than it was a few years back when I first heard the seminar. Not only that it just got a LOT easier to afford. I thought the program was worth every penny a few years ago when there was only about 1/3 of the information it provides today. I thought it was worth every penny when they added all the new stuff and high schools and clubs were paying hundreds of dollars to provide the information to their student-athletes. When I heard how much the new and improved program is being offered for now, I could hardly believe it. You have no idea how excited I am about 1) this company making this information and this program easier to access and easier to afford and 2) being in a position to help others (and not just those in Hawaii) get this program which includes all the information I got at that seminar and more.

I don't have all the details just yet, but you CAN get a hold of this awesome program for your school, travel club, or team. Not only will you be able to access all the information I received at that seminar, but you will also be able to take advantage of the wealth of information that has been added over the last few years. Plus travel clubs or teams qualify for "small school" pricing which is over 30% below regular price.

Again, for those involved with high school aged softball players, this information is MUST SEE stuff. I just received an e-mail a few weeks ago from a father who asked, "What should I put in a letter to college coaches?" This program tells you EXACTLY what to do and include when contacting college coaches (and not just for softball, but for ANY sport). This program gives you specific answers and helps you create a "blueprint for success" when it comes to the college recruiting process.

In the next few days, I will have all the details on how you can get access to all the information this company and their program provides. I'll also be able to tell you how you can personally preview the everything this company has to offer without paying a penny or giving out any credit card information.

Coaching (and parenting) is not only about today, but about preparing the players we work with for the BEST FUTURE POSSIBLE!

I'll be in touch very soon.

If You Want to Play Softball in College...

...I have an announcement you won't want to miss coming up soon .

AAF Members will get this message directly via e-mail. If you're not a member, you can sign up HERE, or stay tuned to this blog for more details in the next few days.

Who Do You Copy

Here's an excerpt of a message I sent out to AAF members recently. I had quite a few responses from it, so I figured I'd share it here were others could check it out too.


When I got back into coaching, I saw a number of things that had changed since I played. One thing that comes to mind is the idea of eliminating the hitch, load, or any backward movement of the bat/hands prior to bringing the bat forward in a swing. The other thing that comes to mind is eliminating the stride from the hitting process.

Now, like I said last week, when I saw this, I tried to keep an open mind. Maybe these coaches had learned something I didn't know during the few years I was away from the game. Then I saw the US National Women's Team play. Do you think I saw anyone on that team trying to shoot their hands forward to the ball without going back first? Do you think I saw all of them swinging without a stride? Not really.

I've heard people say that if you make a back ward movement prior to "starting" your swing you'll be too slow. I've heard that strides are "just timing mechanisms" so you don't really need them. I've heard that the stride only "messes you up." I've even heard some players convinced that the stride messes up their timing. I've heard that the stride is the reason why some players are late on the ball. If they eliminate that stride, they'll be able to catch up to the faster pitches better. etc, etc, etc

When I heard all of this, I had to admit that I'd never tried hitting without a stride or without some kind of "load." So how would I know which way was really "better" or "right?" The answer: watch the best in the game and see what they do. Whenever I have a question about technique, whenever I doubt my own thoughts on the way I've "always done things" I take a look at what the best in the game are doing. Have they picked up "new and improved" techniques that I never used as a player? Sometimes, as in the case of dynamic stretching, the answer is yes. In other cases, I'd say, in most cases, the answer is no. But if I ever wonder, I just look to the best and try to learn from them.

I know I'll hear some people say, "Well, they are the best....they are the fastest, that's why they can afford to take a stride or go "back" with the hands, or use some other technique." To me, that's a backwards way of thinking. It's not "they are elite players so they CAN use that method or technique" .....to me it's "they are the elite players BECAUSE they use these correct/good/right techniques."

Take a look at your game. Are you doing what the best in the game are doing?

Fastpitch Talk Radio, Episode 8

Our newest episode of Fastpitch Talk Radio is up and ready to listen to. This show features Brooke de Lench, youth sports parenting expert and founder of MomsTeam.com. Join us over at www.FastpitchTalkRadio.com and listen today to episode 8!

Plus, learn more about the free clinic hosted by Michelle Smith.

Sometimes your best isn't perfect...

...and that's okay. All season long we ask for the best from our players. I don't expect perfection, though we try to get as close as possible, but I do expect maximum effort every day.

In a game of 8 innings, which is what our team endured tonight, there are soooooooo many chances, so many plays that could turn the game. Even if, in the bottom of the 7th, with the score tied and a runner on second and third, just one more hit through the infield would have won the game, it still wasn't the on play/at bat that lost the game. There were so many close calls that could have gone either way...so many choices that maybe could have made a difference - a game is never won or lost on just one play.

And even with all those chances, and all those opportunities not cashed in upon, I can still walk away from this game unbelievably proud of our girls. All season we talked about leaving it all out on the field. All season we talked about how it's not the mistake that matters, but what you do after that counts most. Tonight they did it. They left everything they had out on that field. And yes, mistakes were made, but not due to lack of effort, not due to lack of focus, not due to lack of heart. I can accept those. Yet even after those mistakes, those opportunities missed, the girls still came back and came within one ball through the infield or one ball past the catcher of winning the game. They did not go down without fighting to the very last out and there's not a whole lot more that you can ask for than that.

If you'd have told me beforehand that the girls would finally play a game where they give everything they have, with more heart than ever, and together 'till the end, I would have never thought in a million years that the game would end in a loss for us. But as well all know, on any given day, anything can happen.

For those of you who know me and the team I coach, you know I'm talking about the Kapolei/Mililani game in the state tournament.

Kapolei girls, I'm proud of you and they way you played tonight No, we weren't perfect. No this wasn't the best game that we've played skill wise, BUT all those intangibles, the characteristics and qualities you take from the softball field into life, those were all there tonight at the highest level. Play and live like you did tonight and you'll have no regrets.

On the other hand, hats off to the Mililani Trojans for playing an excellent game tonight. Again, not perfect, but you did what you needed to do when you needed to do it to pull through in the end and earn that win. We sure as heck didn't give that one to ya. Good job all around to all the players involved in the game. That's how softball should be played.

Dot Richardson on Fastpitch Talk Radio

Well, I am excited to announce that Dr. Dot Richardson is going to be on the next Episode of Fastpitch Talk Radio. She has so much passion and enthusiasm for the game! I think you'll enjoy the interview with her. She'll be featured in the show that comes out next Monday.

Don't forget to join us then!

Hope you have a wonderful week.

Ouch! My Finger

Sorry I haven't really posted anything in a while. On Monday my 9-yr-old was tossing me some balls and I was bunting while we were waiting for the team I coach to warm up. Well, one of her tosses went awry and came for my head. I ducked and was just going to use the bat to keep it away, but at the last second I decided to hold up my hand in front of the bat and block the ball. Yeah - wrong move! The ball did hit my hand, but apparently my hand was too close to the bat because the tip of my ring finger got caught between the ball and the bat.

I could NOT believe how much that hurt. She wasn't even throwing very hard at all. Anyway - the tip of my finger got all bruised and swollen. I could feel my pulse in that finger tip for 2 days. It is getting better now, but for someone who normally types 50+ wpm, I have been slowed down significantly because I haven't been able to use that finger. Therefore, I am only about half as productive on the computer (because typing takes soooooo much longer right now) and have only been typing when necessary. BUT, I'm glad to say that my finger is feeling a bit better and I should be back up to speed and updating this blog more frequently by the end of this week. I'm hoping to be able to put my hand back into my glove within the next few days too.

It was my left hand that got caught - I was bunting from the left side, so my right hand was down my the bat handle and my left was the one that went up to block and ended up between the ball and the barrel of the bat. *sigh* Never gonna do that again.

Hawaii High School Post Season Heats Up

The Hawaii High School OIA playoff tournament is well under way. The OIA is comprised of all the public schools on the island of O'ahu (biggest conference in the state). The OIA playoff tournament starts off as a 12 team tournament (top 6 from the East and top 6 from the West). Yesterday all teams that had a first round bye (top 2 from each side) had their first playoff game and all 4 won.

So #1 & #2 from the East and from the West make up today's OIA semifinal match up. Campbell (#1 West) will face Kailua (#2 East) and Mililani (#2 West) will face Moanalua (#1 East). All 4 of these teams have already secured a berth in the Hawaii State Championship tournament which runs from Jan. 31st through Feb. 3rd.

The 4 teams that lost yesterday will play today to try to advance to tomorrow's 5th place game. Winners of the games will advance, losing teams end their season. The ones that do make it to the 5th place game will also secure a spot in the Hawaii Softball State Championship Tournament.

Newspaper coverage of yesterday's games can be read HERE.

Off to a Great Start in 2007!

Wow! I did something today that I haven't done for a while: check website stats. I have to say I was surprised, but very pleased. I have to send out a big THANKS to YOU for helping AllAboutFastpitch.com get off to a great start in 2007!

So far this month, the website has already received 61,361 hits as of end of the day on Jan. 17th! We're barely past the half way mark for the month. Compare that to November and December's numbers that were 70,986 and 60,775 respectively. That's right, AllAboutFastpitch.com has gotten more hits so far in January than in all of December!

Also, the record high for Fastpitch Member sign-ups was 138 for the month of March 2006. So far this month, 109. Definitely on track to smash the previous high of 138.

Obviously Nov/Dec is a slower time of year for softball, which was reflected in AAF website stats and I have to admit that I was getting a little discouraged. For the past few months, I kind of gave up checking web stats because what I was seeing wasn't very exciting. You have no idea how pumped up I was to see the difference this month!

Thank you so much for being a part of AllAboutFastpitch.com and for recommending us to others that you know. Now I know added effort I'm putting in to make 2007 a great year is worth it and is paying off. I'm seeing results and I thank you for supporting AAF!

How to Maintain a Positive Team Attitude

Cindy Bristow has unleashed her brand new website and I will be telling you more about it later as well as giving you my opinion on some of the products there after I've had a chance to look at them. However, there is one freebie I took a look at today and like very much.

It's called How to Maintain a Positive Team Attitude and this is such an important topic. Some years, as a coach, you don't need to worry about it as much as others, but when you get to that season when attitude is something you really need to work on, or when you know that that will make the difference between your team taking it to the next level or not, this little report just might help you out.

Go get it, it's free. Visit www.softballexcellence.com and click on the Free Stuff link that is in the left hand margin of the screen. This particular report is on page 6 of the freebies offered at www.softballexcellence.com. Here's to a positive season!

Players Thoughts Report Available Monday

Whew! I've been working hard to get this report ready for you. Once I get my mind made up to get something done, I usually end up on a roll and it's tough for me to stop until it's done.

Soooo.....what that means is, the report I talked about in my last post will be ready for you tomorrow! That's right, it'll be up and ready on Monday, January 15th. Fastpitch Members will be the first to get the link via e-mail. After that, I'll post the link here so that you can grab it for yourself.