Mike Fontenot's swing

[LeeEila's/rant]

Last night when he came to bat I noticed something odd about his swing. At first I could not pick it up it just looked different to me. I grabbed the remote and rewound and played it over and over again, During this time my wife was getting quite irritated with it :) I then caught it and have never seen another swing like it in all my life of baseball. He has a stutter in his swing. I have always wondered how he got his power without having the chin that goes with most of the oddly placed power we see in baseball.

Next time he is batting I want you to all look at it and se if you agree with me.

He will start his swing then for the briefest of a moment he stalls then pop , unloads his swing . It is like he has springs in his muscles and the hesitation is like he is loading the spring. I really think that is what he is doing. He takes that split second and tenses his body then with a burst releases all of it at once.

It is absolutely amazing. You will not hit a damn thing if you stood at bat tensed up and then unload your swing , you have to stay loose. He stays loose until he is committed to hitting a pitch then starts his swing normal then pauses , loads his spring , then launches. It is unbelievable that he can do all this in the split second it takes to hit a fastball.

[bigpapaQ.]

I just jumped on Cubs.com and was watching a few of his videos and don't see it. The only pause I see is when he brings the bat back, he pauses a little long, but I don't see anything as the swing is going foreward. Where exactly is it? It's killing me that I can't find it.

[LeeEila's/rant]

It is real subtle , he starts his swing , maybe moving the bat a few inches , then pauses for the slightest of a moment , then unloads with a downward swing with terrific speed.

I just looked at the video , it doesn't show it as well as it does on my huge TV but , you can still see it . He moves at the pitch very slightly when the ball leaves the hand then pauses for an instant an swings. It is real quick and tough to catch on the MLB video. Look at the next game in real time , I am sure you will catch it.

Heck , it could just be my direct TV :)