EP89 – Principle of Charity Toward Coaches; Umpires Are Just Bad Hops; Mass = Gas?

The principle of charity is about giving the benefit of the doubt to someone in an argument or claim. In coaching, often we don’t give coaches the benefit of the doubt, even when their decision may be based on information we don’t have access to. Dan also talks about umpires and the best way to approach the good and bad calls they make. Lastly, does adding body weight mean you’ll throw with greater pitching velocity?





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Full Transcript – Dear Baseball Gods 89 – Principle of Charity; Approaching Umpires who Make Bad Calls & Does Mass = Gas?



You’re listening to the dear baseball gods podcast. I’m Dan Blewett. And on this show, you’ll learn advanced concepts in baseball. Explain simply I’m here to guide you on your baseball journey and help you paddle through. What’s now an ocean of misinformation, guru wisdom, an overly technical diamond babble.



Hey, welcome back. The dear baseball gods. I’m Dan Blewett in today’s episode, we’ve got three topics. We’re going to cover the first in more detail. That’s going to be today, the principle of charity and how we can apply that to coaching decisions and, uh, kind of reduce some of maybe the animosity and some of the conflicts that we find ourselves in as baseball parents.



Then we’re going to talk a little bit about. Blame and where we attribute good and bad luck and the umpires. And then lastly, we’re going to cover the question of the week, uh, which was sent in, um, by a former student of mine, Nick, who is now a division one baseball player. And he asked a little bit about how weight plays into pitching velocity.



So let’s get started with our main topic here today, the principle of charity. So if you’re not familiar with this, this is a philosophical, um, concept, which is basically just saying that, look, we need to interpret any, um, speakers statements in the most rational. And altruistic way possible. So this is saying like, Hey, if you read an email or you see me do something, not immediately assuming that I did that just to b...