{"id":3618,"date":"2010-06-14T21:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T02:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2010-06-14T21:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T02:25:15","slug":"head-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/head-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3619\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/14\/head-games\/head_games\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3619\" title=\"head_games\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/head_games.jpg?w=431\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>My oldest son&#8217;s team, the Bismarck Marlins, took a bit of beating tonight.<\/strong> Unfortunately most of it was self-inflicted. He pitched two innings and did a pretty decent job. In his first inning he delivered three strikeouts in a row and then the next time he took the mound&#8230; something happened. He got inside his own head.<\/p>\n<p>I know from experience that as soon as this happens he starts to &#8216;lose it&#8217; and becomes more agitated. Instead of resetting and focusing he starts to think too much about what he&#8217;s doing instead of relying on what he&#8217;s been conditioned to do. If he can master the head games of baseball he&#8217;ll be one unstoppable player. I&#8217;m really proud of the job he does regardless of his performance because in the long run he&#8217;s learning how to overcome some pretty big mental hurdles in order to succeed with the physical ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My oldest son&#8217;s team, the Bismarck Marlins, took a bit of beating tonight. Unfortunately most of it was self-inflicted. He pitched two innings and did a pretty decent job. In his first inning he delivered three strikeouts in a row and then the next time he took the mound&#8230; something happened. He got inside his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-Wm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}