Largest Green Bank: State of Delaware?
- Jon Lake
- Feb 24
- 4 min read
Brilliance is Boring! And the short video shows why! And if your Green project needs some real Green, this is the place with Paul Skenes!
Transcript
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Confidence is gained through preparation.
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Eight months out of the year, I'm
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doing the same thing every day.
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It's boring.
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It's mundane, but it's what it takes.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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My mom has three brothers.
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They all served in the military.
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I think I knew from a pretty young age
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that that's kind of what I wanted to do.
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Baseball was a part of it, but it wasn't the biggest part.
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Just seeing the people that were at Air Force, the caliber
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of individual, it's like you can't go to a place like that
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and not get better.
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- He had the ability to fly in an F-15.
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He went through basic cadet training.
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We are going to push you at every turn.
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It is a constant grinder that we are
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going to eat you up and spit you out and just keep on going
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and keep on going.
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Just learning to be on all the time,
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that's what that place grooms you to do.
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It's pressure.
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Pressure, pressure seven days a week, 24 hours a day,
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365 days of the year, and I really
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believe it set the foundation for him
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to be where he's at today.
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Swing and a miss, and the side is retired.
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After his sophomore year, he ends up going to LSU,
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and I think that proved to be a great spot for him,
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and a big part of it was because of Coach Johnson.
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When I got to LSU, the first day of workouts, I show up.
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It's just me, and Wes is this big league pitching
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coach who just tapped out of the big league season
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during the year to come coach college.
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And I show up and he's-- all right.
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You ready?
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I'm like, yeah.
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So I'm working my tail off through this warm-up.
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I'm like, what are we doing?
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This warm-up is two hours.
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It definitely takes patience.
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Then I go out to play catch and I'm, like, I feel amazing.
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And then you do that over the course of a year.
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There’s nobody that’s gonna stop us now.
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[ANNOUNCER] It’s a very rare combination
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of power and precision.
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It's explosive stuff-- swing and miss stuff.
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It's the one thing that flipped the switch for me, and I'm like,
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I'm going to listen to whatever this guy says
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for the rest of my career.
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Here at Pittsburgh, the warm-up is to get ready to throw.
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Beginning of the off-season was about 2.5 hours every day.
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I've seen some starters take 25 minutes to get ready to throw.
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I've never seen anything like that.
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It's the same thing every day.
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It's very mundane.
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It's very boring.
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Boring is such a beautiful thing because that routine works.
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I start with rolling out just soft tissue,
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just to get blood moving.
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Some breath work-- just basically
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getting present and staying present.
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After that, I go up to the Stairmaster,
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just get the blood flowing.
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Go into some movement prep stuff,
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basically just to activate hips, glutes, the obliques, core.
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And then we do a mini circuit, sleds, pistol squats, band
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walks.
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Some hip rotations, and a back extension, and joint base
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movements, and then the mobility stick.
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The stabilization stuff.
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Going into arm care, I do some forearm stuff, get
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my shoulders going, and then I'll
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throw med balls, then plyo balls.
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The routine is not sexy.
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It's boring.
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You don't love it.
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But at the end of the day, if you love the result,
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you got to do it.
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- Sometimes it's what it takes in sports--
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the boring process, the boring fundamentals.
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He has this sense of calm because of the fact
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that he is prepared.
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Confidence is gained through your routine, your process.
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It's like a test, right?
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You study for the test, you're going
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to be confident going into it.
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His routine is boring because it's the same every day,
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but I'll 100% take boring all day long.
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He's throwing 100, he doesn't even look like he's trying.
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Brilliance on the field, for me, is patience.
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Everything takes patience.
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There's no instant gratification,
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and a lot of the time it's boring.
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But greatness is boring.
We hope you enjoyed the video and here is one of our endless bank jokes!
Q: Why don’t bank vaults ever gossip?
A: They’re great at keeping things locked up.
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