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Baseball parity is now fast becoming an accepted norm in all the baseball leagues around our nation, looking at the won and loss records, clicking along at the .500 won and loss mark being Ho- Hum.
The won /loss record is now being outmatched by the excitement of star player and individual production accomplishment vice the team effort. Point of making is simply to look at the art of bunting which was in days of old a thing of pride cherished by most hitters. The use of a perfectly executed or a well placed bunt is looked upon with disdain by most baseball hitters in the modern game today.
A hitter in years ago would claim it a privilege to lay down his sacrifice bunt moving a team mate into scoring position. Not on the diamond today is it a readily accepted duty but rather is frowned upon by most hitters as a cop out not letting him show his might at the plate. Reference point of the bunt strikes directly to the core of why baseball clubs play .500 ball today and think nothing of their inability to scramble away and lead their league well above this even steven won and loss ratio.
Maybe we have raised up a bunch of kids now well developed men playing baseball who are satisfied with tit for tat win one lose one and feel no hard inside burning desire to do better.
So we have this "burning desire"/"attitude" complex battling the development from every front with players with equal or same same skill abilities and capabilities . Which is in control advanced equal skill of all the players or the paucity of burning desire to excel and win?
The equal skill level could easily be advanced as the driving factor of baseball parity of play and season in and season out kissing the .500 percentage records right on the nose.
Look closely during any game today and you will find every batter comes to the plate sets a body stance and makes a swing of the bat and follow through which within only microscopic difference are all perfect molds one after the other. I would venture to say if one had the time effort and inclination to record every hitters stance motion swing and follow through for every player for every pitch on a team for a season in recorded stop action slow motion filming it would be almost a cookie cutter photo.
What this means is that baseball hitting is now almost a stereotypical same same for every batter at the plate. If such is true and I for one believe it is so then if every player is being taught the same identical method/mode and style then why not expect duplication after duplication to also reflect equal variance from every team? Thus the baseball parity theory for the game of baseball is a given not a mystery.
What happened to little Johnny on his journey from pee wee T-Ball to the Major Leagues as he was squeezed into a mold of develop these muscles use this stance swing this way and we find little Johnny is no longer Johnny but is now big John the All Star slugger for team Red.
Across town little Jimmy has been found to get caught into the same maze of this is how we do it and big Jim now playing as a super All star but on team Blue.
In the cane country of summer leagues little Jose' being visited by the boys showing him how it is done picks up a sack of money and is now playing on the Red White and Blue team brings his cookie cutter same same skills to the playing diamonds.
Now with the amalgamation of all these equal skill levels competing head to head why not expect baseball parity and .500 as the norm?
There is only one way to outgun outrun overcome this suffocating same same baseball parity monkey which in the recent past has been enhancement drugs. Let's say the day of the drug kingdom is now being vanquished. The parity of baseball play will only be snapped by some group somewhere strapping on those spikes and using the age ole motto "All For One and One For All." Practicing and playing as if their very life depended upon the games outcome.
The winning percentage besting this parity thing and not accepting this win or lose on a .500 basis is a matter of "burning desire", "want to",,"discipline","attitude", and "can do."
Batter Up----Let's Play Ball.... is a signature statement of Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (ret).
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Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (ret) born Argo, Alabama schooled Argo grammar school until family moved to Trussville, Alabama. Graduated Hewitt-Trusville High School 1954. Auburn University Bachelor of Science 1959. Commissioned 2nd Lt. USMC upon completion Officer Candidate Course Quantico, Virginia 1959.
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