Ian Happ

I think when you're going through it, the hardest thing to do is to stay focused on your process and the process.

The easy thing to do is chase the mechanics and be like, well, I stink, so I have to change something.

And, you know, I'm not hitting this or doing this.

Get really focused on that, really obsessed with the fact that you're not doing something.

And then change something mechanically to try to plug the hole or fix the problem.

And that gets to be a really slippery slope.

And then you're just searching day after day for a new thing because you take that into the game, doesn't work, take that into the game, doesn't work.

And you've completely lost sight of process, focus, what you're trying to do, what the pitcher's trying to do.

And so I think the biggest challenge is to...

all right, I think that the best pitch for me to hit against this guy tonight is a fastball.

So I want to be completely and totally committed to the fastball in this location, this window, whether it's inner third, outer third, whatever.

I want to be totally committed to that pitch.

And the more that you can do that and have that process of

just totally committing to seeing the ball in your approach.

I think that that's how you get out of it, but the opposite is true.

When you chase the mechanics all the time, it gets really hard.

And the Cubs road trip begins on a sour note, losing 2-1.

Ian Happ, Cubs all-star outfielder.

And I've seen a lot of guys play the outfield, but I think he's the best left fielder that we've ever seen in a Cub uniform.

Yeah, well, what we saw, we saw improvement as the tape goes on and we know what happened with the injury part of it.