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Change Is Happening Fast (Ft. Jeff McGarry and Jon Moscot of Blast Motion)

This is a show about people, baseball, culture, and how to create a winning lifestyle. This is episode 23 of the Closing Pitch. Spiker Helms sits down with Jeff McGarry and Jon Moscot of Blast Motion. Technology is advancing sports faster than we can imagine. Both Jeff and Jon explain how baseball is advancing and how their product works, but the conversation does deeper than baseball. Life strategies, goals, and how to become the best version of yourself are also discussed.

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Your Competition Will Be Mad When You Find Out How to Do This (ft. Tommy Woods)

This is a show about people, baseball, culture, and how to create a winning lifestyle. This is the ninth episode of the Closing Pitch. Spiker Helms and David Birkby explain that there are three things that will put you above your competition. Also in this podcast, we have our first guest on the show, Tommy Woods. He was mentioned in episode two and we decided to put on the show. He talks about his recruiting story and his journey up to this point.

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Getting Your Team To Row In The Same Direction

In this episode Spiker and Dave discuss how to communicate and build relationships with your players. Also, they then discuss the 20/60/20 rule. Then, they have a special guest, our intern Todd. Todd is a pitcher at Notre Dame College in Cincinnati, Ohio. He discusses his experience with the 20/60/20 rule.

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Embrace the Weird, You’ll Be Surprised How Valuable You Are

This is a show about people, baseball, culture, and how to create a winning lifestyle. This is the seventh episode of the Closing Pitch. Spiker Helms and David Birkby talk about how to understand who are you as a person and the value you bring in relationships. Have you ever seen a baby giraffe run? If not, go ahead and Youtube it. When seeing that giraffe run, you will notice how awkward, weird, and funny that looks. We focus on embracing our “weird” and how this is our greatest strength.

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Stop Worrying About FOMO, Honor Your Committment

This is a show about people, baseball, culture, and how to create a winning lifestyle. This is the third episode of the Closing Pitch. Spiker Helms and David Birkby talk about the current pandemic of COVID-19 by using Facebook Groups to lead the discussion. Topics such as commitment, quarantine training, and finding the best mentor/coach will be discussed and explained to put yourself above others during this time.

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This is the Scariest Feeling

This is a show about people, baseball, culture, and how to create a winning lifestyle. This is the eleventh episode of the Closing Pitch. Spiker Helms and David Birkby discuss fear and what it means, how to handle it, and what to do after you have overcome your fear. We believe to overcome your fear, you must do your fear. For example, David has a fear of public speaking but has done things to overcome this by doing this podcast.

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It’s a Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood to Master Your Relationships

This is a show about people, baseball, culture, and how to create a winning lifestyle. This is the fifth episode of the Closing Pitch. Spiker Helms and David Birkby discuss how to develop and maintain your relationships. They use Mr.Rogers as a focal point for this discussion when creating relationships. Relationships help create a successful life in your personal and work life.

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Building The Foundation of the Closing Pitch Podcast

This is a show about people, baseball, culture, and how to create a winning lifestyle. This is the first episode of the Closing Pitch. Spiker Helms and David Birkby explain what this show will discuss, their goals, and future content.

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This Deserves a Baseball Celebration

I love seeing these photos. It gets me amped that one of our players delivered in a high-pressure situation. It takes me back to when I played. My favorite moment of all time is putting away the 2nd to last out for my friend who pitched a championship game no-hitter. When he struck out the last guy we dog-piled in front of 7,500 of our fans. ⁣
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This was nothing new for him. He was our best pitcher and delivered whenever we needed big moments. If you want to be like my friend you need to understand what it takes to win. If I could rank top attributes of a player, I would put them as follows: mentality, a good human being, athleticism. How you view the world around you is massively important. It will dictate whether you’re able to overcome adversity, aggressively compete, and finish what you start.⁣
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I believe humans are innately good at heart and it’s choice of following a set of core values that makes your future self. These values are teachable and it comes down to a mentor to show the value of team, patience, and fortitude. ⁣
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I’m not going to deny that having players who are athletic makes competing fun. BUT I would take a person who is open-minded with strength of mind over the person who is closed and weak minded and is more athletic. I can teach the person who is open minded how to win on a set of core values. ⁣
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To get more experiences like my friend you first need to build your view of the world and be opportunistic. In these opportunities, it’s not necessarily the bigger and stronger player that wins. It’s the person who’s built better. (i.e 1980 US Hockey Team, Buster Douglas KO’s Mike Tyson, UMBC upsets 1 Virginia in 2017 March Madness opening round). ⁣
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My friend was not the most talented pitcher on our staff. He was a right handed pitcher that sat 85–88mph with a good secondary pitch. He wasn’t explosive and he didn’t intimidate hitters, but what he had was the competitive mindset. He would dominate you and believed he could strike you out. It was a culmination of his training and upbringing that gave him an edge over his peers. ⁣
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Focus on building who you are: mindset and core values. Let the athleticism take care of its self. ⁣
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Spiker Helms 👊

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