When my Austrian wife first came to America, I had met her in South Africa, we were looking at a ball game on television.

She asked me, “How is baseball played?”

Well, this is easy, I thought. Only then did it hit me that the game I was raised with was one hell of a job to explain to someone who was not raised with it.

All the games my wife was familiar with like soccer or La Crosse or hockey or basketball were similar.

Each game consists entirely of getting a ball into a goal. In all of these games, what is called a “team” is really an indistinguishable group trying to hit the goal or block the goal or getting the ball to a teammate who can get in the goal.

One position in basketball, La Crosse, soccer or any of the others is excellent practice for any other. Entire books have been written about the history of halfbacks, or guards or tackles or ends in football. A pitcher in baseball is entirely different from a fielder or a shortstop.

A good soccer or basketball player can take any so-called “position” on the team. A pitcher or a halfback does not easily switch to being a shortstop or a tackle.

Try explaining all that in a short statement.

This is a giant difference, but I didn’t notice it until my new wife asked me to explain baseball to her.

BUGSERS do not realize how much training they have absorbed.

Just think about it, don’t TRY it.

Truck Roy, White Rabbit and I spent three hours at the convention just getting the audience’s feet damp about the BUGS approach.

Our goals are as different as the points in baseball and la basket soccer.

The question and answer in BUGS Swarm is absolutely opaque to those who have not been in BUGS.

Our real BUGSERS readily admit it often took them YEARS to catch on to the Mantra and Mantra Thinking.