My son and a few of his friends joined a private baseball team this spring. They’re good players. They have a good team. One of his friends is the #1 pitcher on that team.
We drove an hour to go to our very first tournament back in May. In the very first inning, our number one pitcher gave up back-to-back home runs. We play on a 50-70 field, so in between little league and professional. We’d never seen a home run hit on these fields, let alone TWO.
It didn’t go well from there.
After the game, I asked my son how his friend was. He told me that the first thing he said when he came out of the game was, “This isn’t like the league we used to play in.”
A day before, he was a lights-out pitcher. But that day, he gave up 2 home runs and about 9 runs in the first two innings. It was a massacre.
He was right. We weren’t in Kansas anymore.
Do you know what’s happened since then? He’s upped his game. He’s become a great pitcher in this league. He developed a more focused approach. He developed and worked on some new tools. He’s getting better every single game.
How are your test scores since you moved up from the minors to the Big Leagues? Are you in need of some new tools? Are you still trying to get by like it’s undergrad?
Join me and hundreds of PA students (and a good number of PA-Cs) inside the Physician Assistant Exam Scholars program and let me show you some ways to up your game now that you’re playing at a whole new level.
Brian Wallace
