Pete Rose talks about slump’s (2016) — Transcript

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1. 0:00That's where I used to choke up to,
2. 0:01right there. Someone choke up.
3. 0:03What size bat?
4. 0:0534? 33? Never less than 35, never more
5. 0:07than 36-in. Really?
6. 0:09What?
7. 0:1035 35, you mean? No, I used 32 33-oz.
8. 0:14But 35-in.
9. 0:16Uh one time I used a 36-oz, too. But I
10. 0:18choked up like this. See? Let me tell
11. 0:20you why.
12. 0:21Because when you get into a law, you
13. 0:23never admit you're in a slump. Don't
14. 0:25ever let a pitcher tell you you're in a
15. 0:26slump. I would tell people do you do one
16. 0:28of six things when you get into a law.
17. 0:30You know what they are?
18. 0:31Yeah. Okay.
19. 0:31No, tell me. All right.
20. 0:34Closer to the plate.
21. 0:35Farther away from the plate.
22. 0:37Up in the box. Back in the box.
23. 0:40Choke up in the bat more. Choke down in
24. 0:42the bat more. Make it heavier. Make it
25. 0:43lighter.
26. 0:44Never change your swing.
27. 0:46Your swing got you to the big leagues.
28. 0:48You change your positioning
29. 0:51of in the batter's box. Curveball's
30. 0:53getting to you. Move up on it. You're
31. 0:56not getting to it. Move up Move back on
32. 0:58it. They're jamming you. Move away from
33. 1:00the plate because what they do
34. 1:02everybody charts every game that you
35. 1:04play nowadays. And you're not going to
36. 1:06go over for 20, Frank, and have 15
37. 1:09bats where you're pulling the ball and
38. 1:10five where you're hitting it over first
39. 1:11base. You're going to develop a pattern.
40. 1:14And you make your adjustments based on
41. 1:16the pattern that you developed over 20
42. 1:17at bats. And if you're swinging and
43. 1:19missing, you're pulling off.
44. 1:21Hit the ball right back up the middle.
45. 1:22You can't pull off if you hit the ball
46. 1:23right back up the middle.
47. 1:24How do people get you out? How do they
48. 1:25pitch you? When I first came up, they
49. 1:27tried to knock the bat out of my hand.
50. 1:28That's what, you know, should When I was
51. 1:30batting left-handed, I was back here.
52. 1:33I wouldn't I wouldn't over close to that
53. 1:35plate.
54. 1:36The only way you could jam me is if I
55. 1:38swung at a ball that far inside. But I
56. 1:39went in everything.
57. 1:41I used to think I could hit the ball
58. 1:42inside to right to left field batting
59. 1:45left-handed
60. 1:46better than I could the other way cuz
61. 1:48you get all your power when you go like
62. 1:50that. All right? I can have the same
63. 1:52swing as going to left field.
64. 1:54This is going to center field. This is
65. 1:56pulling.
66. 1:57Just the difference in where my hands
67. 1:58are.
68. 1:59Same swing. Wow.
69. 2:02Pretty simple.
70. 2:02Pete. That's church. That's why you got
71. 2:044,200 hits.
72. 2:05Well, that's good stuff, buddy.
73. 2:06That is really good stuff. I really like
74. 2:08the
75. 2:09back in the box, forward the box, up in
76. 2:11the box. Never thought of it like that.