Terry Francona broke a tooth, spilled his coffee while preparing for spring training speech

Public speaking is a skill that not everybody will possess, and even highly successful professionals that have to do it all the time can still have a personal meltdown preparing for a speech. 

Look no further than Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona who went through a series of calamities in preparing for his annual spring training speech to the team this week.

Francona detailed his speech preparation adventures (via Cleveland.com) that included him sweating profusely, breaking a tooth on undercooked pasta, spilling his coffee all over the speech he was writing, and then trying to figure out how to work the copier machine in his office. 

This is a man that has to speak in front of the media and television cameras every day for eight months out of the year! He is used to it! 

Francona said that he skipped dinner with the coaches on Monday to prepare for his speech and tried to nuke some frozen pasta in the microwave. But after undercooking it he broke a molar on the still-frozen food, chewed up his tooth, and then swallowed it. 

That was followed by the coffee and copier incidents. 

This is like a violent Rube Goldberg machine of speech preparations. 

Through it all, he still managed to deliver the speech to his team on Tuesday following their first full-team workout and now he has all of that behind him. Now he just needs to find a dentist. 

Francona has been an MLB manager in Philadelphia, Boston and Cleveland for 22 years. He has been with Cleveland since the start of the 2013 season. He has been to the World Series three times during that career, winning it during the 2004 and 2007 seasons with the Red Sox, and losing in 2016 with Cleveland against the Chicago Cubs.