{"id":24908,"date":"2019-08-16T08:48:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24908"},"modified":"2019-08-13T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:11:09","slug":"you-do-have-to-show-them-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/16\/you-do-have-to-show-them-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"You Do Have To Show Them The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bank of Missouri has a series of ads with bankers inserted into various situations to illustrate that they’re more than bankers. They’re part of your community or something. One depicts a banker holding a fire hose along with the firefighters. So I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be all metaphor or not.<\/p>\n

But this one spoke to me:<\/p>\n

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The banker is not awarding the kid first base for a walk. The banker is reminding the kid to go to first base.<\/p>\n

Friends, with the young ones, this is often the case.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned<\/a>, I coached a little league team for a season, and I was the loud coach. I cheered for all the boys, and I shouted instructions all the time.<\/p>\n

One of the most common instructions was “Run, run, run!” which I shouted when the batter made contact with the ball. Otherwise, the youngsters were prone to gape in wonder at what they’d done and to get thrown out or tagged out easily.<\/p>\n

Hey, I know the feeling. I had the same reaction the first time I made contact with the ball in a league softball game. Although I was nineteen at the time. And this occurred a couple of minutes before I took a fly ball to the face resulting in an ambulance ride and my getting thrown out of the league because I was an injury risk. But just so.<\/p>\n

My second most-shouted instruction was “Get it! Get it! Get it!” when an opposing batter made contact with the ball. Because they would often stand agape at that turn of events as well. <\/p>\n

I don’t know how many of those kids benefited from my volume, but if none of them did, I must attribute it to the fact that I did not wear a suit with a green tie that is visible from space. Clearly, I was not taking it seriously. Why should they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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