Tom House
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105 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Tom House’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was exactly right. I thought too much and I cared too much. And that combination is a performance anxiety problem. So I became a defensive pitcher for about six months to a year after leaving Boston. And until I got involved with the research on performance anxieties, did I figure out a way that even a guy with my limited abilities could actually manufacture and do better.
with these particular protocols. And that became the beginning of my research into the PhD program.
Neither my mom or my dad could understand how anybody could make a living playing sports. In fact, on her deathbed, my mom looked me in the face and she said, Now, Thomas, when are you going to find a real job? Seriously, they enjoyed coming to the games, but her number one priority for my brother and myself, no A, no play.
If you want to play sports, you have to have straight A's, and you can play sports as long as you go to school. That's why I went to school until I was 44.
Really weird. They were on a limited budget with a franchise that was barely hanging on.
Tom Greve as the GM was one of those GMs that said, we know what doesn't work for us, let's try something new. So I mortgaged my house to get an aerial system and we brought it into Rangers Stadium and we captured data. every hitter, every pitcher that went through there. We're talking about cube and high-speed motion analysis. And we had two years of data.
We've got measurements coming out of our yin-yang. What is it that we have? I said, you know, everybody's trying to film a million pitchers and see what they do. Let's narrow our sample down to 30 of the best. It's a stepwise regression analysis.
And we found nine variables, starting with balance and posture, that were dependent on anybody that wanted to throw strikes with health. And that was the year that we finished second.
When Nolan Ryan joined the Rangers and started throwing the football, at least they shut up publicly.
I'll tell you how he did. He embraced the new information like it was mana from heaven.
And in fact, when he went into the Hall of Fame, he actually mentioned that, that Tom had all these weird ideas. But when I tried them, they worked.
And he literally said, I was a better pitcher from age 39 to 46 than I was any time during the previous 39 years.
Think about a tobacco chewing coach from the 50s and 60s listening to somebody like me talk about proprio neural facilitation. Can you see him? What's he talking about? It's a baseball. Throw it. About drag crisis from moving on the ball. About spin. Spin. About getting it closer. About effective velocity versus real velocity. And there was nothing wrong with it. It was just before its time.
It began before Drew Brees, but it was rubber stamped by Drew Brees. Third and 14 of the 19.
I thought it was going to be a mental-emotional consult, and it started off that way. But as luck would have it, that was the season that he blew his shoulder out.
He and I spent the summer post-surgery in an aerobics room at the Pacific Athletic Club just figuring out ways to make our arms work without lifting weights or throwing anything. So that became the body work that put his shoulder back to function to where he could throw the football. And then the rest is history from there.
most accurate passer in the history of the game. All right, so the word kind of gets out and people start tapping on the door. Alex Smith was one of them.
Yeah, another testimonial to curiosity in someone trying to make, so even though it was weird, they were coming by to see what was going on. And then the quarterback that picked up for Tom Brady the year he hurt his arm.
Matt Castle was a baseball pitcher at USC. And he said, hey, Tom, is it okay if I bring Tom Brady by? I said, he wants to come by? I said, sure. So Tom showed up, and it happened to be a day when I had 10-year-olds. I think I had a javelin thrower and a golfer besides a couple quarterbacks and a pitcher.
Exactly. And I can remember Tom looking and going, I'm not sure. And as it turned out, we hooked him just because of that. The stuff that he was doing that was new made him feel stuff in his delivery. And one thing that people don't realize about Tom Brady, he is demanding. When you're a coach working with him, every throw is under the microscope. What'd you see?
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