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I read JS's stuff...and saw the picture and his mention of Liddi just standing there.
We're making WAY too much out of that.  First of all, he isn't standing in the box that he bats from...so he hasn't just stood there frozen.
I mostly think he's checking on a stance or hips or mental checklist issue.....which is exactly what ST intrasquad games are all about.
And trying to evaluate how players respond to failure by observing them immediately after the failure is fraught with risk too.
Jack Nicklaus never said "boo," when he skanked one, but probably no athlete ever dealt better with failure than he.  I remember reading something written by one of his contemporaries.  He was paired with Nicklaus and Jack yanked his driver into the left rough off the first tee.  He played the rest of the round without hitting another driver, teeing off with his 3-wood, instead. Shot a 68 or something low  After the round he headed immediately to the practice tee and wore out his driver until he had it straightened out.
Tiger, on the other hand, stormed and steamed at himself after a skanky effort......but by the time he was over the next shot the previous one was forgotten and he hit some kind of all-world recovery.
At first blush, they dealt with failure in entirely different ways.  But in reality, they put their mistake behind them and moved on to the next shot.
No games are more ripe with failure than golf and baseball.  What is critical in both is whether you let your last failure mess up your next effort.
I suspect that Liddi was working on something to make sure that wasn't the case.
moe