Great thread. If you have a love for something you can endure any pain. - Touring mocap labs and getting laughed at for not understanding global vs. rolling shutter - Getting chastised by academics who said I could never be a lead author when asking about how to publish research as a college dropout - Told I’d never be a pro pitching coach at any level and should be a “statistician” - Then-leaders of industry running my name through the mud in the few unpaid spots I got - A prominent (now fired and out of baseball) AGM calling orgs telling them wildly untrue stories about me - Director of Analytics telling me I’m a shit husband and father for wanting to intern for the club while also working my day job It’s all part of the journey. Most of America - the world, really - are losers. By “loser” I don’t necessarily mean it as an insult; I mean that most people can’t handle winning. They don’t know how to win and they don’t want to win. Lots of gurus were much larger than me; had much bigger businesses, more pros, more accolades than me. But most hit peaks and couldn’t handle success, because ultimately they didn’t want to be successful. They just wanted to prove people wrong. It’s dangerous to care about your haters. Someday you may find yourself so successful that you go looking for conflict and creating it just to keep you going. It’s a brutal, self-destructive spiral that has collapsed more than one friend and colleague in industries of all kinds. The most effective weapon a man can possess is patience. Terrifying when combined with relentless work ethic from a mission-driven standpoint. I never thought: “Driveline will work.” I just thought: “Driveline has to work.” From the beginning to the end it’s all the same journey. Just different levels of comfort and acceptance; none of it mattering. If you need haters or you need praise, trying kicking the addiction of positive/negative feedback. Do it because you have to.
Great thread. If you have a love for something you can endure any pain. - Touring mocap labs and getting laughed at for not understanding global vs. rolling shutter - Getting chastised by academics who said I could never be a lead author when asking about how to publish research as a college dropout - Told I’d never be a pro pitching coach at any level and should be a “statistician” - Then-leaders of industry running my name through the mud in the few unpaid spots I got - A prominent (now fired and out of baseball) AGM calling orgs telling them wildly untrue stories about me - Director of Analytics telling me I’m a shit husband and father for wanting to intern for the club while also working my day job It’s all part of the journey. Most of America - the world, really - are losers. By “loser” I don’t necessarily mean it as an insult; I mean that most people can’t handle winning. They don’t know how to win and they don’t want to win. Lots of gurus were much larger than me; had much bigger businesses, more pros, more accolades than me. But most hit peaks and couldn’t handle success, because ultimately they didn’t want to be successful. They just wanted to prove people wrong. It’s dangerous to care about your haters. Someday you may find yourself so successful that you go looking for conflict and creating it just to keep you going. It’s a brutal, self-destructive spiral that has collapsed more than one friend and colleague in industries of all kinds. The most effective weapon a man can possess is patience. Terrifying when combined with relentless work ethic from a mission-driven standpoint. I never thought: “Driveline will work.” I just thought: “Driveline has to work.” From the beginning to the end it’s all the same journey. Just different levels of comfort and acceptance; none of it mattering. If you need haters or you need praise, trying kicking the addiction of positive/negative feedback. Do it because you have to.
@drivelinekyle All that '09-'16 stuff from the orgs really put me off it. Everyone trying to extract value to save their own asses, then telling you you're shit so you'll give up instead of surpassing them. I still love pitching science, but I could never make it a passion the way you did.
@drivelinekyle Were any of the mean people from cleveland :/
Love it. Well said, Kyle. I’ve always admired the way you and others @DrivelineBB went about their business. When I trained at the facility in 2017, I got a lot of shit from my coaches. It wasn’t perfect, but it was clear to me then that you guys would succeed in the long run You guys were helping players find solutions, not just regurgitating the same old things without any idea of how it may impact the player. It was (and still is) innovative in terms of the way baseball development is conducted. The only thing I wish were different was that it was more accepted back then. When I returned to campus in the spring, I dealt with conflicting opinions from my coaches on how I was training all season long. Today, every organization respects and most have adopted this data-driven training style. Now that I’m out of the game and building my own business, I always think back and ask myself, “How would Driveline do it?”
@drivelinekyle I love this. I opened up a sporting apparel store at 22. I drove a tow truck over night while in college, worked at a record store, went 4 days in a row without eating and when I opened Gametime Sports I said the same thing "This has to work." and it did.
@drivelinekyle Hey man you don’t need to post every ride and grind meme chatgpt creates for you