Team Work

It's funny . . . we have this motto that all of the guys kind of make fun. It may be because it was the motto of a team some of them played for that was unsuccessful. That motto is "One Team, One Goal." If you ask the coach of that team why they were unsuccessful that year, he would tell you that it consisted of about 20 individuals and no team. No one was on the same page.

Another phrase that some of the guys tend to make fun of is the old Maxwell phrase, "Team work makes the dream work." Until this week I've definitely been up with the head of the pack in making jest of these phrases. But this week I begin to think about team work and I realized that while to a post-modern, anti-cheese culture these phrases only get shot down like a lame duck, they definitely have truth and value to them.

I began thinking about the teams that I've been a part of that were successful and those who weren't successful and the common denominator between all the successful ones. What is it that makes the Patriots go undefeated through an entire NFL season, or that makes a once cursed Boston Red Sox team be hailed as a dynasty? So over the next three days (before we leave for Florida) I'm going to highlight the three characteristics that I, in my limited experience, feel are essential to a successful team (whether it's sports, business, ministry, etc.) and then I'm going to attempt to evaluate Southern Wesleyan Baseball according to these things.

Stay tuned and until tomorrow . . .