There was a baseball pitcher from the Atlanta Braves (John Smoltz) who was psyching himself out while out on the mound and was having problems (and I think losing games or being pulled from games fairly early...they usually swap out pitchers before the end of a game, but the starter usually pitches most of it), so his therapist started sitting in the stands behind home plate when he was the starter and would wear a bright red shirt...and it helped him? It helped him so much that he eventually went from total suckitude to lesser suckitude and helped his team win the World Series for the first time in almost 40 years after the strike that made Americans hate their national game (and Atlanta haven't won again, but I digress).
Sevilla needs someone in a loud outfit to stand behind Barca's goal as a motivator!
But do football teams even use sports psychologists since there are so many speshel snowflakes in football? Maybe Sevilla should get someone if they don't have team therapy, or fire whatever they currently have. I thought some teams whose players didn't cost the GNP of several countries like Barca does got the drop on them a few times this season?
Yeah, they dojazzypomFebruary 1 2019, 13:50:03 UTC
But do football teams even use sports psychologists since there are so many speshel snowflakes in football?
I think when Rodgers was coaching LFC, he hired a sports pyschologist to work on Raheem Sterling - and that was four years ago. Also, with increasing players coming forward re: mental health issues, I'm sure there's more behind the scenes.
RE: Yeah, they doms_geeketteFebruary 1 2019, 20:12:10 UTC
Eek, when I said speshel snowflakes, I was meaning ego-maniacs who think they are perfect and God's gift to life even if they...aren't, and probably wouldn't listen to anyone, even if they were trying to tell them that their jacket had caught on fire.
Raheem definitely seems to have had/still have? some mental blocks/something big going on affecting his play. And I don't even think a player has to have an active mental health issue going on at the moment to affect their performance mentally.
Like, what abandonar said in their comment about Sevilla and Barca really reminded me of a situation I had growing up playing YMCA-sponsored softball. One team we played in the area practiced constantly, they were practically a college-level team in skill by high school, and of course they stomped on all the teams they played, including us. For years, we just came into the mindset that we were *definitely* going to lose the games we played against them - the only surprise/unknown was by *how* many runs they would beat us by and if we would score at all, or if someone would get a home run off of them (always fun, never, ever me, lol). One day when we were playing them, I got a hit that was really just a wimpy single, but when I was running to 1st base and our coach signaled me to stop there, I just sorta "snapped" a bit, didn't slow down and kept running to 2nd base. They weren't expecting me to do this at all (and haha, neither was I until it happened! XD) so I made it to 2nd without getting tagged out. My teammates cheered and some got a touch sassy, too, for a bit, when it was their turn. I eventually got forced out at 3rd (I even slid into base to try to beat the throw, which I never did), but the 3rd baseman seemed to appreciate that I pushed them a little (she said "good try" and genuinely smiled, lol) - I think as a whole, a lot of their team was really bored, tbh. We called them the robots (not to their faces, ofc).
Of course, our team wasn't certainly playing for money - some of the opposing team was, they wanted university softball scholarships eventually, but our entire team (and even our coaches, a bit), were just sorta stupefied by this team and just felt really inferior to them. I mean, if we practiced 5-6 days a week, we'd probably be really good players, too, but we were just doing it for fun and exercise. So we really needed a big team-wide mental shift as a whole when it came to that particular team and a lot of self-confidence.
When a team *is* playing for money, it seems the higher ups would want to try some cost-effective things since they all want to make *more* money. Put Team Sevilla into therapy, stat!
/thank you for listening to my sports TedTalk, lol
Sevilla needs someone in a loud outfit to stand behind Barca's goal as a motivator!
But do football teams even use sports psychologists since there are so many speshel snowflakes in football? Maybe Sevilla should get someone if they don't have team therapy, or fire whatever they currently have. I thought some teams whose players didn't cost the GNP of several countries like Barca does got the drop on them a few times this season?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-10-10-9204010811-story.html
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-10-24-1991297069-story.html
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I think when Rodgers was coaching LFC, he hired a sports pyschologist to work on Raheem Sterling - and that was four years ago. Also, with increasing players coming forward re: mental health issues, I'm sure there's more behind the scenes.
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Raheem definitely seems to have had/still have? some mental blocks/something big going on affecting his play. And I don't even think a player has to have an active mental health issue going on at the moment to affect their performance mentally.
Like, what abandonar said in their comment about Sevilla and Barca really reminded me of a situation I had growing up playing YMCA-sponsored softball. One team we played in the area practiced constantly, they were practically a college-level team in skill by high school, and of course they stomped on all the teams they played, including us. For years, we just came into the mindset that we were *definitely* going to lose the games we played against them - the only surprise/unknown was by *how* many runs they would beat us by and if we would score at all, or if someone would get a home run off of them (always fun, never, ever me, lol). One day when we were playing them, I got a hit that was really just a wimpy single, but when I was running to 1st base and our coach signaled me to stop there, I just sorta "snapped" a bit, didn't slow down and kept running to 2nd base. They weren't expecting me to do this at all (and haha, neither was I until it happened! XD) so I made it to 2nd without getting tagged out. My teammates cheered and some got a touch sassy, too, for a bit, when it was their turn. I eventually got forced out at 3rd (I even slid into base to try to beat the throw, which I never did), but the 3rd baseman seemed to appreciate that I pushed them a little (she said "good try" and genuinely smiled, lol) - I think as a whole, a lot of their team was really bored, tbh. We called them the robots (not to their faces, ofc).
Of course, our team wasn't certainly playing for money - some of the opposing team was, they wanted university softball scholarships eventually, but our entire team (and even our coaches, a bit), were just sorta stupefied by this team and just felt really inferior to them. I mean, if we practiced 5-6 days a week, we'd probably be really good players, too, but we were just doing it for fun and exercise. So we really needed a big team-wide mental shift as a whole when it came to that particular team and a lot of self-confidence.
When a team *is* playing for money, it seems the higher ups would want to try some cost-effective things since they all want to make *more* money. Put Team Sevilla into therapy, stat!
/thank you for listening to my sports TedTalk, lol
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