Aaron Bogage One of my favorite Coach O stories (along with many many more that I will not disclose to the general public)- Coach O had Cameron Birse and I pitch to Jacob Bogage and Brian Fantozzi at bullpen session one practice. We were no more than arms length apart in the bullpen. Coach starts walking the lane right between our pitches, giving all 4 of us pointers, back and forth. Me and Cameron are thinking "this guy is nuts, we're definitely going to hit him". We bring it up to him, Coach goes "Dont worry, you wont hit me". We kept pushing him to walk around the outside (mostly out of fear of what would happen if we did hit him). Coach hears us, turns towards us and stares us down while saying sternly "you will NOT hit me". He then turns his back to us, and walks right back down the lane yelling "Pitch!" Low and behold, we didn't hit him. This man was not afraid of anything- let alone a measly 5 ounce baseball.
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