The past few years our hitters had to line up in two lines (Lefties and Righties) in the outfield and "visualize" a sac bunt, hit and run, driving the ball the other way, etc as our coach would wind up and would pretend to throw a fastball, curveball, slider, or change up. It was comical for the pitchers to watch. Our hitters hated it and would wait in the outfield to "visualize". What started out as a joke for the hitters became a pre-game ritual for our whole team. Fans would watch and scouts would even come up to our other coaches and tell them they thought the skit was great. Our coach's walk to the outfield was annoyingly slow so we had plenty of time. The first skit started out of sure hate for this coach. As he was walking to the outfield the hitters took their bats and "visualized" using them as guns. It looked like an 18th century war re-enactment. Guys were crawling on the ground pretending to fill their gun like a musket. Someone actually got it on tape and it was featured on the video at the conference tournament banquet. Needless to say it was an instant hit on our team and a lot of thought went into these skits. Some of them had to do with the team we were playing, some had to do with current events, and some were just because.
