No sooner that I post about Training that someone goes out and proves me right.
Big Congratulations!!! to the “Big Unit” Randy Johnson, Pitcher for the San Francisco Giants on becoming one of only 25 professional baseball players to win 300 games as a pitcher.
Since 1988, at the age of 24, with the Montreal Expos Randy Johnson has been going the distance. Having played in over 600 baseball games and starting in 597 of them he is certainly a force to be reckoned with. Trust me, when it comes to winning half of all the games you play in you are a force.
As I wrote in my previous post, rest assured Randy Johnson did not walk out to the pitching mound one day in Montreal and say "I'm going to pitch 600 games and win 300 of them as a professional baseball player." Far from it, as a matter of fact it was a little more than three years from the day he was drafted by the Montreal Expos to the day he took to the pitching mound. According to Baseball-Reference.com, Johnson was drafted on June 3, 1985 and did not throw with the Expos until September 15, 1988, that’s 3 years and 3 and half months later. Think about this: most baseball draftees don’t ever get a chance to see the inside of a professional baseball stadium from field level.
Anyone care to guess what he was doing for those 3 years? He was training, practicing, training, and pitching in the minors until he got called up to play in the Big League. While waiting, he was paying his dues in the form of getting better and along the way proving to himself and those that drafted him that he was the star that the Expos saw in him when they drafted him.
So what is this mean to you? It means what you want it to mean. For everyone else, it means that you might just have to wait three or four years before you get your shot, but those are three or four years that you get to build your reputation, master your skills, increase your knowledge, and above all it means you mature and grow as an individual.
Of course, there are times it might not take three or four years, it may take longer or it may take less. Therefore, it is in your best interest to be ready for when that call comes, because if you don’t answer the call on the first try, it might just be a long time before the next call comes.
Remember, that when you get the call to the Big League, it means that someone has recognized your ability to produce what they want. Believe me, they will want nothing short of Excellence, I guarantee they will demand it and you better be delivering Excellence in everything you do.
The question I ask you is: Are you Training now to be ready for when the call comes?
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