Off-Season Baseball and Closing Skills
While the action may not be on the diamond, don’t think that there isn’t activity during baseball’s off-season. Owners, managers, and coaches are making behind-the-scenes changes that will help build the team’s strengths, develop new offensive strategies based on their players (and those who they’ll be facing once the season is underway), and preparing for the action. Players are doing their best to stay in shape as well so that, once Spring Training is underway, they’ll be ready to perform when the time comes to step up to the plate.
Like the Red Zone in football where the offense needs to stay focused and persevere toward the end zone, baseball’s batters need to step into the box in order to score. Studying the opposing pitcher’s patterns and form – along with good, old-fashioned practice – are crucial parts of success. Still, no matter how much power a hitter has, often strikeouts precede hits and runs. That’s where perseverance comes into play.
Persistence also pays off when you’re engaged in lawyer marketing. An attorney client of ours had held several meetings with an Assistant General Counsel at a university in her area. When this AGC was promoted to General Counsel, our client asked my advice about how to proceed now that her prospect was twice as busy. I suggested she offer to provide backup support, filling in at the GC’s former position until a replacement could be found. Not only did her prospect take her up on the offer, but additional engagements were lined up.
Had she not been to the plate several times to develop her closing skills, and learned her prospect’s best moves, she would not have been ready to hit this one out of the park!
