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1. THE HOOK 📖
What I'm reading: We Sacrifice Everything for Baseball, Chapter 1.
Cover: We Sacrifice Everything to Baseball
This week I'm on a dusty field in Tanzania. And I'm reading about my old teammate.
Pavel Chadim. Neurologist by day. Manager of the Czech national team. We played together at Draci Brno for Geoff Samuels. And we won. A lot.
My ex-Teammate Pavel chadim
Success leaves clues. Here are the Czech ones:
They built from the ground up. Tee-ball for little kids around 2000. Twenty years later, five times more players.
They put a psychologist in the dugout. At the World Baseball Classic. Almost nobody does that.
They dreamed bigger than their budget. Pavel says "a dream is stronger than money, than weapons, than experience."
Here in Tanzania, I see the same thing. Kids with almost nothing, hungry to learn.
Back home in Austria, I coach our senior national team. But the truth is? A senior team means NOTHING without a pathway behind it.
And nobody builds it alone. The Czech story is full of people you'll never see on a highlight. Families who sewed backstops by hand. Coaches who flew in to teach. Every one of them mattered.
Same lesson. Different sky.
2. GAMER REP ⚡
THINK: See it first.
Before practice, close your eyes for 60 seconds. See your first rep go right. The swing. The catch. The throw.
Then go do it.
Small reps build big minds.
3. PARENT PLAY 🚗
Say this: "Who helped you play well today?"
It teaches your kid to SEE their teammates. Gamers don't win alone.
Don't say: "Why didn't you..." Not on the ride home.
4. GAMER OF THE WEEK 🏆
Sarah Edwards | First base, Los Angeles Queens
Coaching Staff JWL 2025 - Sarah Edwards, Alex Derhak, Anthony Bennett, Andy Bergland and “Big Game” Nabe
Last month, Sarah and the Queens won the first-ever Women's Professional Baseball League championship. She also hit the league's first grand slam.
I know Sarah personally. We coached together in the Japan Winter League. Her resume is full of firsts: first woman on the field in the Phillies organization, first woman coach in Asian pro baseball, and two countries in two sports.
But that's not why she's a Gamer.
She's a Gamer because the trophy barely touched the shelf, and she was already back in her offseason workouts.
The truth is? The first championship is the easiest. Everybody is hungry. At Draci Brno, we learned the hard part is the next one. Staying hungry when you're already on top.
That's a Gamer.
5. QUICK POLL 👉
Who's the unsung hero on your team?
6. WHAT'S NEXT 🚀
Hit reply and tell me one thing you see first before you play. I read every reply.
The best part? It's still free. Still short.
Practice players are everywhere. GAMERS ARE RARE.
Go be rare.
Think. Play. Win.
Coach A/B
