That, my friend, is not simple. Neither is hitting a 90 mph fastball when a batter has fractions of a second to see it, recognize it and get a good part of the bat on the ball.
   Oh, there are so many things going on and so many things to teach young players. We know all about those things. But do we know how to teach what we know about the game? To put it in terms they can understand?
   That is the purpose of the 35th “Be the Best You Are’’ clinic, teaching how to teach the best parts of the game.
   To do it we have come up with a unique format that includes some of the top clinicians and teachers in the game.
   Four speakers will start things at Thursday Night Thunder with six 25-minute sessions each on a subject. They will follow that with 50-minute full sessions on the same subject matter Friday. This will allow a coach to stay with one speaker from start to finish and get a complete book on a subject.
   The process will repeat at Friday Night Lightning, when four different clinicians speak on subjects ranging from hitting, to practice organization, to health issues. They will offer even more in-depth understanding of the subject matter in main sessions on Saturday.
   The list of speakers is filled with some of the most notable men in the field. Gary Denbo, who has played a major role in developing the talents of New York Yankee players into Major League caliber hitters, is here to teach that aspect of the game with the same sound advice he had for major league hitters from Derek Jeter to Alfonso Soriano.
   Dave Serrano, the coach who caught the eyes of the world leading the UC Irvine Anteaters to the College World Series, and earning the 2007 Baseball America Coach of the Year award, is here to show you how to teach your pitchers.
   John Cohen, the 2006 coach of the year from Kentucky, is back at popular request. His attention to details will show you how to do everything from improving your base running to creating video that can change your program.
   Tom Slater, in the midst of putting Auburn among college baseball’s elite, and his new assistant, Bill Mosiello will give other teaching views. Slater will use Friday Night Lightning sessions to stress how to make in-game adjustments as a hitter. Mosiello will specialize in topics revolving around catching at Thursday Thunder.
   The veteran coach from Rutgers University, Fred Hill, named the East Region Division I Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association for his success last season, will offer some sensational drills to help teach players to be physically prepared and will explain how he uses his years of experience to set up indoor and outdoor practice sessions where you can get teaching done.
   There’s something to cure everything that ails your program, including Alan Russell. When the New York Yankees began their season with a number of leg injuries they knew they had to make some changes. They called upon Russell, a noted athletic trainer specializing in professional baseball, to change their ways. As usual, he had success.
   Russell, uses Friday Night Lightning as an opportunity to show you how to improve on the physical aspects of your players, how to maximize speed and quickness, how to eliminate a “dead arm’’ and how to identify injury risk. It is a unique collection of clinicians all with one goal in mind - keeping the game simple for the players because they have been taught so well.