HOOTS
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HOOTS
@GarethHooton
Architect of landscapes & the business of Sport Dad of 3 | Coach in progress ⚾️ 🇳🇿 Te Riu-a-Māui #BigLeagz #Prosocialite
Aotearoa Katılım Ekim 2011
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Do you understand how hard it is for me to not create a burner account as StepBackMan and start taking wildly reckless about any hitting instructor who doesn’t teach “The Step System”?
David Adler@_dadler
Mike Trout tried going back to his old swing yesterday (no step-back), and that lasted until his first at-bat today -- a weak groundout on a check-swing. Then he started doing the step-back again and immediately hit a 113.2 mph home run.
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With @LoganPaul's affinity for @Pokemon and his @PrimeHydrate beverages, surely there's going to be a crossover...
Mankey x Prime = Primeape
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@NEBaseballDoc @moreau_daryl @devenmorgan Thanks! So more like a suspension system?
(sorry, sticking to the car analogy)
Weak/fatigued shocks (FDS, FCU, FDP) mean way more of that spike transfers straight to the spring (UCL) → higher risk of stretching or tearing over time?
and weak springs (UCL) overwork the shocks?
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@GarethHooton @moreau_daryl @devenmorgan Yes, certainly, but the UCL & dynamic stabilizers work in tandem to prevent failure. If 1 is weakened, the other is jeopardized.
Certain pitches also require ⬆️ activation of FDS & FCU. See attached excellent editorial by Dr. Michael Freehill (Stanford)... link in next comment.
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In 2024, Yanai et.al found that the medial elbow muscles (FDS, FCU, FDP) are the primary valgus stabilizers, NOT the UCL. This means UCL injuries are as much a muscular capacity problem as they are a ligament problem. That’s a massive shift few are addressing.
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@NEBaseballDoc @moreau_daryl @devenmorgan So the UCL is like a fixed 'seatbelt' (static restraint: always there but can only handle so much before it fails), and the flexor-pronator mass is the 'brakes' (dynamic control: can modulate force in real time).
Thus weak/fatigued brakes → more load transfers to the UCL?
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@moreau_daryl @devenmorgan With all due respect, FDS,FCU, and FDP are the primary DYNAMIC stabilizers to valgus stress. UCL is the primary STATIC stabilizer. Not familiar with Yanai's work but there's 50+ years of research demonstrating the UCL as the primary restraint to valgus stress.
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I feel like a cool thing to do in NZ would be to knock over the existing electricity powers and go nuclear.
Surely it's safe enough now with shock absorbers for earthquakes and the efficiency of waste etc.
Imagine if your power bill was 75% cheaper a month.
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Prior to tonight's game against Hartford, Nikau Pouaka-Grego was added to the roster from the FCL-Phillies (ROK). To make room on the roster, Nolan Beltran was transferred to Jersey Shore (A+).
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@devenmorgan How do we redesign youth baseball to better support the huge base and lifelong engagement instead of just auditioning for the elite tip?
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What “as many as possible” looks like
(Not cutting kids at 9U)
Changing the Game@CTGProjectHQ
"We didn't start at the top and trickle down. The opposite. We started at the bottom." USA Hockey's secret to Olympic gold? They changed their youth program FIRST. More good players come from more kids having good experiences. Why don't more sports get this?
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Utility player Curtis Mead has been activated and is on the 26-man roster.
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If you coach early youth baseball, and you tell kids:
DON'T hit the ball in the air because they're automatic outs
DON'T try to hit homeruns.
DO hit balls on the ground to 3B because you'll get to 1B more often.
You are legit crushing the sport.
Getting kids to "want to come back tomorrow" is YOUR ONLY ROLE. My 7 year old doesn't want to go back tomorrow. I don't blame him. You failed.
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#BaseballNZ 🇳🇿
From fastballs to first-five: Cooper Grant’s shock Crusaders debut
stuff.co.nz/sport/36095308…
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The flaws with youth baseball are all rooted in a single issue.
We're spending time and emotional energy focused on results when we should be focused on learning.
We're optimizing for now, treating our children as our entertainment.
We're drawing false equivalence between performance in the game at 60' and at 90', as if the differences aren't readily apparent.
We look at these kids, who are 24-36 months away from their first HS baseball tryout, and we don't bother to correct what should be obvious.
Their bat speed sucks. They don't throw the ball hard enough. They don't move well. They're weak.
But they love baseball! They are having fun now. They want to keep playing. And you sure as shit can present development in a way that they will love, that they will have fun with, and will definitively make it more likely that they can keep playing.
Instead we focus on results. On outcomes.
We have the time. We have systems of development. Instead we focus on game results.
And with all of that incorrect focus and missed opportunity we wonder why the percentage of North American players in MLB is trending down?
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> be me, anthropic
> some austrian dude @steipete builds an open source tool that defaults to my model
> 145k github stars
> 2M visitors in 1 week
> he literally named it after me
> free advertising to millions of devs
> i hate free shit
> what do?
> lock his oauth tokens overnight. no warning
> kill every third-party tool built on claude subscriptions > cease and desisted him bcos "clawd" sounds like "claude"
> force him onto a discord call at 5 AM
> he complies (YES!)
> drops the handles
> scammers hijack both accounts in 10 secs
> $16M pump and dump on my brand
> guy flies to SF
> meets every major lab
> @sama hires him
> my legal department is openai's best recruiter
Sam Altman@sama
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings. OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.
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@Velo_doc This is prelim observational data dressed up as evidence.
The design can't establish causation, the sample is too small for reliable estimates, and the exposure classification is useless.
Publishing as "professional pitchers shouldn't use weighted balls" is just irresponsible.
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Hmmmm
My anti-weighted ball rhetoric seems to rub people the wrong way
Especially when there is a mountain of data to prove it 🤔
Oh well must be a coincidence that guys get hurt more when they throw weighted balls that overstretch their soft tissues repetitively
1.0 x2FS Pitching Badger@Pitchingbadger
Just your yearly reminder that weighted balls are like playing Russian roulette with your arm. This has been my Badger Talk. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…
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Still typing on Android?
Fix that.
Join the Flow waitlist.
Win stuff 🚀
@WisprFlow
wisprflow.ai/waitlist?GARET…
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@MikeySmithNZ @Lawblock21 So housing's value stack is unwinding?
Layer 1 (solid): Utility (shelter + fit)
Layer 2 (shaky): Liquidity mirage (fine until unemployment bites)
Layer 3 (gone): Speculative halo (leverage + endless gains)
A new normal, where homes ≈ family security, not retirement plan?
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I think during periods like this too. Volatile geopolitical, stagflation type stuff, negative real yielding bond markets and etc. There is a premium loaded into prices of certain things purely due to the liquidity profile. Houses don't have that, especially when unemployment is edgy.
Like why buy a bond. You lose purchasing power. But you lose it slowly. And you can redeem instantly. That second part has value.
I'm struggling to explain my thoughts here. But basically for houses there's no "fast liquidity" and the future as an asset looks uncertain due to politics. There is a sea change in how society and politicians view the financialised aspect of it.
People start to change their behavior and view a house closer to what I think it should be. It's utility value plus a premium for location and fit for purpose.
Eg. If they change rules and regs etc in the future. Making it harder or whatever. I still want a house to live in with my family. It's mine to enjoy and have privacy and comfort. But I definitely don't want a rental portfolio.
Not sure I'm getting this out the way I intend. But I will put more thought into it and discuss more at some stage.
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I recently heard the lads on the KTC podcast say property investing in NZ is no longer “cool”. I couldn’t agree more. I grew up reading Robert Kiyosaki and made a fair chunk of dirty fiat in rentals, but sold everything in 2021. The newer short-term flipping game seems gross and almost predatory in some respects. Houses should return to utility value. You buy a roof over your head, taking into account features such as security, schooling, etc. There are much better hard assets out there.
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Mike Trout was deemed unlikely to be insured for the WBC early in the process, per a source cited by @Alden_Gonzalez
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Most of the glaring issues that have compounded over the last decade can be traced back to PE’s arrival in amateur baseball. It is in the best interest of these institutions for it all to continue as it is now and progress further. When everything a kid sees online is some marketing campaign to sign up for the next “showcase” or “elite tournament” while they see those drafted and upcoming draft prospects as the marketing angle, what else do we expect?
PE ain’t gonna take the hit to the bottom line. Which means more marketing, less oversight, and far more coaches and even orgs… chasing a follow or a repost. That is the crux. Behavior cleans up when poor character is not incentivized. When amateur baseball is a corporation spearheaded by PE, any control over “standards” is not worth the time trying to solve. We must first solve for the source of the issues.
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You’re right. Currently there are no consequences. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We need a system.
Danielle Martin@Danielle138252
Most of the coaches that are negatively influencing and negatively impacting young athletes won’t care what you’re saying and they won’t actually HEAR what you’re saying. They’ll turn a cheek like so many of them do. Until there’s real consequences to them personally they’ll keep doing whatever they want. What’s the solution for coaches who are out there abusing their authority and even abusing the athletes they’re supposed to be coaching? What’s a productive solution?
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If you've made it this far, hello! Share your thoughts!
The industry is a mess and this is a foundational concern.
I am unaccepting of the current state of baseball/softball. I have zero desire to complain and "the industry is broken" whine.
It is time for change. 21/21
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The kids were VERY engaged. The other coach instantly implemented so his line was popping.
I've set a culture (😂) of high fives when your teammate does something they were trying to do. This was our third practice. Day 1 they were mute. Now they were hyping up teammates. 6/x
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