THE SCENE: 66 degrees F, 83% humidity, cloudless skies.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Overhead claps, Cherry pickers, Imperial squat walkers
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Springbrook Fountain Trail Loop
At every other light pole on the trail are the exercises listed below. Start with 5 burpees, run to second light pole and do 10 merkins. Run back to start and do 5 burpees, run to second pole do 10 merkins, run to 4 poles do 15 WWIIs. Run pack to start and continue the progression until all 8 exercises are performed on sequence.
5 Burpees
10 Merkins
15 WWII’s
20 Squat Jumps
25 Box Cutters
30 SSH’s
(Single Count)
35 Iron Mikes
(Single Count)
40 LBC’s
Mosey back to the AO.
Circle up and perform the following with a CMU.
Thrusters x10
Floor Press x20
Russian Swings x20
Triceps Extensions x20
Curls x20
Bent Rows x20
Lawn Mowers x10 each arm
Upright Rows x1 (times up)
MARY:
No time for Mary. Got enough in Tha-Thang.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 HIMs plus FNG, Hand Brakes from Elizabethtown, KY
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
In 1996, Coach John Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching. He gave a presentation that began with a question. “Do you know how wide home plate is in Little League?”
After a pause, someone offered, “Seventeen inches?”, more of a question than answer.
“That’s right,” he said. “How about in Babe Ruth league? Any Babe Ruth coaches in the house?” Another long pause.
“Seventeen inches?” a guess from another reluctant coach.
“That’s right,” said Scolinos. “Now, how many high school coaches do we have in the room?” Hundreds of hands shot up, as the pattern began to appear. “How wide is home plate in high school.
“Seventeen inches,” they said.
“You’re right!” Scolinos barked. “And you college coaches, how wide is home plate in college?”
“Seventeen inches!” we said, in unison.
“Any Minor League coaches here? How wide is home plate in pro ball?”…………“Seventeen inches!”
“RIGHT! And in the Major Leagues, how wide home plate is in the Major Leagues?
“Seventeen inches!”
“SEV-EN-TEEN INCHES!” he confirmed, his voice bellowing off the walls. “And what do they do with a Big League pitcher who can’t throw the ball over a seventeen inch plate?” Pause. “They send him to Back to the minors. “What they don’t do is this: they don’t say, ‘Ah, that’s okay, Jimmy. If you can’t hit a seventeen-inch target? We’ll make it eighteen inches or nineteen inches. We’ll make it twenty inches so you have a better chance of hitting it. If you can’t hit that, let us know so we can make it wider still, say twenty-five inches.’”
And what do we do when your best player shows up late to practice? Do we hold him accountable? Or do we change the rules to fit him? Do we widen home plate?
This is the problem in our homes today. With our marriages, with the way we parent our kids. With our discipline.
We don’t teach accountability to our kids, and there is no consequence for failing to meet standards. We just widen the plate. “This is the problem in our schools today. The quality of our education is going downhill fast and teachers have been stripped of the tools they need to be successful, and to educate and discipline our young people. We are allowing others to widen home plate! Where is that getting us?”
“And this is the problem in the Church, where powerful people in positions of authority have taken advantage of young children, only to have such an atrocity swept under the rug for years. Our church leaders are widening home plate for themselves! And we allow it.”
“And the same is true with our government. Our so-called representatives make rules for us that don’t apply to themselves. They take bribes from lobbyists and foreign countries. They no longer serve us. And we allow them to widen home plate! We see our country falling into a dark abyss while we just watch.”
If we fail to hold ourselves to a higher standard, a standard of what we know to be right; if we fail to hold our spouses and our children to the same standards, if we are unwilling or unable to provide a consequence when they do not meet the standard; and if our schools & churches & our government fail to hold themselves accountable to those they serve, there is but one thing to look forward to …
…We have dark days ahead!.”
“Don’t widen the plate.”
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