TAMPA -- Donnie Moore is a Northern California educational and motivational speaker who also runs baseball-chapel gatherings in Oakland. Yesterday, Moore was brought into the Yankees clubhouse to address the players and left them with mouths open. In addition to preaching a vision is needed before success reached, Moore put on several displays of mental and physical strength. “He rolled a frying pan like a burrito,’’ manager Joe Girardi said. Moore also broke a bat with his hands and ripped a phone book and a can in half. “That guy was amazing. To see that guy roll that frying pan was pretty exciting,’’ Robinson Cano said. “And to rip a can in half, rip the phone book, it was unbelievable. It shows you can control, with your mind, what you can do. Everybody was looking at each other like, ‘Are you serious?’ It helps hearing that kind of positive message, especially in baseball because you are going to struggle. That is a guy who has something special.’’ Full Story
How does Joe Girardi get the Yankees motivated to win you ask? By bringing in a motivational speaker to rip phone books and soda cans in half and roll up a frying pan like a burrito. Girardi has a history of organizing weird bonding activities, such as a day of role-playing and improv before training camp. It's all good though. I don't care who gives the Yankees motivational speeches, if he's going to inspire Robinson Cano to have another MVP-like season, he's good people in my book. Bravo Donnie Moore. And Joe Girardi as well, seems like the team is eating it up the field trips and motivational speeches. Twenty bucks says Cano is crushing phone books within a week. I don't care if it takes this dancing banana.
If it works, I'm on board for more weird shit. Just don't have Tony Dungy be a guest speaker again because he is the worst.
Preach on, Donnie.
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