Infinity Trails

@rationalyankee Are there any good Yankees pods?

This is why I stopped listening to this podcast. They’re all probably good dudes, but the content isn’t for me anymore and hasn’t been for years. Early on, it was a very insightful show. When it became a business that people depended on for their livelihoods, they started doing everything they could to attract as many eyeballs as possible. For Yankees content, that always means pandering to the doomers. That’s when they completely lost me. This is a worthless statistic.

@nypost That’s just Carl Pavano in a red hat.

Police called to Carl Pavano's home nine times as ex-Yankees' ugly divorce drags on trib.al/v2Gvbzj

@MarinerMuse Elite food

Underrated ballpark, imo

@BStulberg It’s more nuanced. People should seek help. Identify the problem, and solve it. Mental health “culture” is when it becomes your identity or business. That culture bathes in its problems, or lives off people who do. That’s toxic. And gross. And makes billions.

A few things to respond to, important so please read: 1) Some people are upset I called Dana White an idiot. I shouldn't have. I've never met Dana and don't know much about him. I should have said it's an idiotic idea—because it is. 2) Some people have asked if I even lift weights or exercise. I think they are implying that exercise prevents mental health problems. Though I don't have as much time to exercise as I'd like (I'm a husband, father, and the craft I'm trying to be world class at is writing) yes, I do train. I deadlift 2.5x my body weight. Squat and bench press a lot too. I could pass any drug test/have never used PEDs. There is loads of good evidence that exercise absolutely prevents and can even help treat depression and anxiety. I'm a huge proponent of this. But it's not a panacea. Lots of very strong guys become very depressed and die by suicide. 3) I just refuse to play into the narrative that seeking help makes you weak or unattractive. I think what actually happens is that a lot of men who shove their shit down end up becoming very angry and taking it out on the women and children in their lives, which is lame as shit and what actually makes for a weak man. 4) Dana's remarks come at a time when men are legitimately struggling in many ways. There is nothing wrong with some tough love, get your shit together talk. It's just that a part of that talk ought to be seek help for your problems, you can't do it alone. I'd rather have strong men processing their feelings, expanding their emotional aperture, and alive than angry, resentful, and dead.

Men die by suicide at 4x the rate of women and one of the biggest drivers of that is that men are less likely to ask for help. Dana White is proof that you can be very rich and still an idiot.

@mdestefano14 He signed every kid’s ball at a AAA game last week. Class guy.

Spencer Jones get ready to learn New York, buddy

@BfloBizFirst Don’t listen to him. It was mostly locals. Check the hotel vacancies that week.

The NFL Draft in Pittsburgh set a new attendance record with 805,000 fans, and the president and CEO of VisitPITTSBURGH shared his advice for cities like Buffalo that want to host the event. bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2…

@CynthiaBuf24884 @BStulberg A man who ruminates and posts about his mental health all day gets steamrolled by other men. A woman hates going to that man’s funeral, but most won’t marry and mix genes with him. Unfortunate. But reality.

@InfinityTrails @BStulberg One he’s wrong and two you don’t know all women I’ll rather sit and talk to a man about his issues, rather than go to his funeral because he took his life. They way some you you thinks about this situation is wild to me.

@EricJorgenson Important reminder. Also: SONNY!!! #coys

Purpose changes, happiness doesn’t.

The NHL first-round ratings are up nearly 70% year over year. The boost is driven by record viewership for both ESPN and TNT Sports, which each posted their most-watched first round of their current NHL media rights deals.

@Yankees @LagranCarlos No pressure kid.

"I've seen a lot of baseball, and I've never seen anything like it" - Gerrit Cole on @LagranCarlos Behind the NY | Episode 7: Carlos Lagrange - Yankees No. 1 Pitching Prospect 👉 youtu.be/Qae7HuP7Ff0

@JohnMTillman @naval @ZohranKMamdani Mamdani has 2 types of supporters: Privileged Populists with a megaphone, and people who just want free shit.

Watching @ZohranKMamdani's oafish, unprovoked attack on Ken Griffin blow up in his face in real time tells us so much about how contemporary leftism has been reconfigured by its elite practitioners. Firstly, Mamdani is not a "have-not." He is a Bowdoin graduate, the son of a Columbia professor and an internationally celebrated filmmaker, whose path to a New York City mayoralty ran through exactly the credentialed-creative pipeline that produces most of his voters. His base is not the working class. It is the downwardly mobile but college-educated, who were promised a particular kind of life by their degrees and are furious it didn't arrive, and who have decided the people standing between them and that life are not the radicalized professors who sold them seductive fictions or the ideologically captured universities that took their money, but a hedge fund manager in Miami. This is what I'd call Privilege Populism. The aesthetics of class struggle, performed by people whose parents or grandparents technically already won the class struggle, but with the appropriated symbolism recast in the direction of people who won it slightly more. It is war between the "haves" versus "have-mores," as some others have put it. The Mamdani's inciting video, gleeful in its innumeracy about about whether a $500 million pied-à-terre tax can actually fund anything it claims to, defiant in its ignorance about the dynamic effects of such taxation on human behavior and wealth outmigration, is the genre's mature form. Griffin's response is the part worth watching. He didn't argue or issue a statement offering a philosophical defense of capitalism. He simply pointed to his Miami construction project and said: this is the way. Then he said the part that should make every blue-state mayor uncomfortable: that what's happening in New York is "triggering the trauma I went through in Chicago." I watched that trauma play out for twenty years. Progressive politicians perform to excite the grievances and resentments of credentialed creatives, the productive class that subsidizes the city quietly relocates, the tax base hollows out, and the people who stay behind look at the resulting societal decline around them and misinterpret it as proof that they must vote even further to the left than before in order to improve things. In a warped but unignorable way, liberal mismanagement of states like Illinois and New York helped nurse the conservative governance triumphs of Florida and Texas. The Privilege Populists never figure this out, because the point is never truly to improve the lives of the "have-nots." It's to *perform* therapeutic acts of Resistance for them, on camera, against "villains" who can afford to leave and do.

@sondraa Good experience for the kid.

Alright I can’t handle watching this guy pitch

@AdamSchefter Football in an airplane hanger.

A look at the Cleveland Browns’ new Huntington Bank Field that is slated to open in 2029:

@rationalyankee Nepo eyeball aggregators are the worst of this breed.

There’s a real difference on this app between what I call “content creators” and “eyeball aggregators.” Content creators actually try to add legitimate value to the topics they’re passionate about. Eyeball aggregators just like to have as many people as possible listen to them say things. It’s important to be able to tell the difference between the two. From what I can tell, Yankees Twitter has a lot of “eyeball aggregators” and @GarysheffieldJr is one of them. But he’s far from the only one. There’s a huge market for Yankees accounts who are willing to say whatever it takes to have people listen to them. It’s clearly working for some people, so I don’t expect it to stop anytime soon.

@Jason LDR- Norman Fucking Rockwell

What album or two do you have in deep rotation at the moment? It could be from the archives or it could be a brand new selection.

@alex_prompter BANGERRRR

Spent 3 days compressing Naval Ravikant's entire worldview into one Claude prompt. Leverage, judgment, specific knowledge, wealth vs status, decision-making, happiness as a skill. All of it. Encoded into a system that actually coaches you through his frameworks instead of just quoting him. Most people read the Almanack, highlight a few lines, feel inspired for a week, then go back to renting out their time. This prompt doesn't let you do that. It takes your actual situation and runs it through Naval's operating system until you see where you're trading time for money, chasing status instead of wealth, and ignoring the leverage sitting right in front of you 👇

@EricJorgenson @nytimes BREAKING: “Paper of Record” only has profits because Wordle.

@nytimes What do you do with your profits?

Elon Musk has used SpaceX as a kind of piggy bank over the last two decades, turning to the company as a financial tool to get loans and bolster his struggling companies, according to an examination by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4w8dInZ

@rationalyankee While America is conned into thinking we have a 2 party system where one side is corrupt. It’s all one big ball of cronyism masquerading as democracy.

Went to look this up after seeing this reply and what I found is genuinely nuts. Neither Cohen nor the Wilpons own the land around Citi Field. The city does. Which means Cohen didn’t just buy a baseball team and build something on his own property like some of these other owners did. He bought a baseball team and then used it to extract 50 acres of public parkland, get Albany to rewrite land use law specifically for him, sign a lease with the city that the public still can’t read, and collect one of three casino licenses the state handed out in all of New York. A court ruled in 2015 that land at Willets Point couldn’t be touched for commercial development without state approval. Four years after Cohen buys the Mets, the state approves it. For him. And the whole time he’s doing this he’s playing the role of the good guy owner. Spending on players. Talking about winning. Giving fans exactly enough to argue about so nobody looks up. It worked. Mets Twitter spent years consumed by roster construction while he was quietly having laws rewritten in the background. Every big free agent signing bought him another news cycle of fans debating payroll instead of asking what he was building at Willets Point and how he got permission to build it. The spending wasn’t just about winning. It was about controlling what people were paying attention to. So just to put it plainly: a hedge fund billionaire with an insider trading settlement on his resume bought a baseball team, used the franchise as leverage to get a court-blocked piece of public parkland reopened by the state legislature, negotiated a lease with the city that nobody can read, and walked away with a casino license for an $8 billion development on land he never spent a dollar to own. The community benefit fund he attached to it amounts to two cents on the dollar. Every piece of this happened while the public conversation about him was almost entirely about whether he’d sign the next big FA. Without the Mets he’s just another hedge fund billionaire with no claim to any of it. The franchise was the key. The fans were the noise. And Cohen is sitting on an $8 billion development on land he never had to buy while everyone argues about the GM and manager. Hell of a trick.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ But seems like it worked!

@ChrisKirschner Just like Manchester United: an old, stuffy brand who chases trends- overtaken by clubs who spend money better.

I am probably in the minority and maybe this is just another thing geared to the younger crowd, but this is the latest example of the Yankees becoming just another team. To me, it started when they moved into this current stadium and has slowly deteriorated since. It doesn’t have that special feeling like the old stadium. It can’t be more corporate if it tried.