In between fielding grounders, taking cuts in the batting cage, and stealing Leslie Gudel’s camera to snap pictures, Jimmy Rollins found some time to hook up with a golf instructor down at Spring Training in hopes of improving his golf swing.  Luckily for us, the CSN Philly cameras followed him there to document it.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the next Rick Rhoden:

Now I don’t know much about golf, but I don’t think it helps Jimmy when the instructor tries to relate every cot damn thing he does to baseball. Did you hear this guy?

“Golf’s the same as baseball.”

“You hit a baseball, the ball and the bat are together for a period of time… same thing as golf!”

“Everyday is Spring Training. Batting Practice, everyday.”

“If I ask you to hit an outside pitch, blah blah something golf.”

“We’re getting base hits, we still don’t have a double yet.”

“You fouled off that pitch! Still alive”

Jimmy: “Who’s pitching?”

Instructor guy: [thinking of a baseball player... I KNOW! John Smoltz plays golf!]

“John Smoltz.”

“You know what it is? It’s the World Series!”

“I actually think you got hit by a pitch!”

Alright. We fucking get it.

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