Bravo, Lookout Landing

You may have heard that the St. Louis Cardinals have hired Mark McGwire as their new hitting coach for 2010.

The best post I have read on this is over at Lookout Landing, the Mariners blog on SB*Nation.

Despite a little irrational Raul Ibanez hate -- which abated a bit in this post today, I still check on their site often and I'm glad I found this one.

McGwire: See, what you want to be doing is hitting dingers.

McGwire: When you go up there, first pitch, you're looking dead red so you can hit a dinger.

McGwire: Sometimes you're gonna miss. That's okay. Stick to your guns. There's no more efficient way of scoring than hitting a dinger. That's what we want to be doing.

McGwire: The pitcher might pick up on your strategy. Don't worry about it. He's more afraid of you than you are of him.

McGwire: If he throws you something offspeed, like a curveball, don't be fooled. Just hit it for a dinger.

McGwire: Walks are good too. If the pitcher tries to get you to chase something out of the zone, don't swing at it.

McGwire: You only want to swing at strikes. Take balls. Hit strikes for dingers.

Click over and read the theoretical advice that Lookout Landing Mark McGwire is going to give to theoretical Skip Schumaker.

Best part of the post. They don't go for the easy PEDs reference.