Carol Gaab is all excited right now because she might get her third World Series Ring soon if the Giants look like they did last night. For those who aren’t aware of it she is the language teacher for the San Francisco Giants and the need is great for fast acquisition in the players because sometimes they are in the Dominican Republic one day and in San Francisco the next. Notice that Helena Curtain is NOT doing this work, not invited. I wonder why.
Carol shares a lot in her workshops about the Giants organization, about providing compelling input to the players around the game of baseball and about the feeling of love between people in general in San Francisco about the Giants. It made me think of us. Carol sent me this clip last night of Hunter Pence before the first playoff series against the Pirates. Look how he turns a baseball stadium into a forum:
This is unprecedented. It is a new model. A player, not the coach or general manager, talking like that. I love that. We can do that with our work. I have felt it in Maine the two times I was there and it is why I say it is the best TPRS conference out there because 99% of the people are happy and not just 50% like at the other conferences, and because skip and Beth, though being the leaders there, make it feel like they are just like everyone else. That is very important to me in our work together in this PLC. We are all just learning together and there are no leaders.
We are hitting the ball well and in control of our pitching in our game with ACTFL in their ball park. Keep at it. We are doing great against a team that has tens of thousands of more players than we do! We have a secret weapon. The Hermanator. He’s got a 90 mile an hour research fastball and a CI curve that wraps the ACTFL batters up around themselves when they swing. Harrell just comes in there with 100 mile an hour heat. We have a good pitching staff. But we need more hitters. Go write something there today.