Tim Schultz

Proud to announce my internship offer at Albuquerque firm Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill. I only hope that I can live up the example of menswear icon Howard Hamlin. Thanks, @PatrickFabian, you made my day! #BetterCallSaul

@NFL_DovKleiman Kirk Cousins has made millions of dollars above his past or projected performance levels just by being an amazing guy.

This is awesome: Raiders rookie QB Fernando Mendoza and veteran Raiders QB Kirk Cousins did a 'Step Brothers' photo shoot for the team’s schedule release. The absolutely killed this 😭😭

Carrie Severino: How Neal Katyal’s Disastrous TED Talk Defamed Michael McConnell nationalreview.com/bench-memos/ho…

@JermaineCurtis A lot of noise in the data based on wide variance between competition levels at various ages that are hard to quantify.

I honestly think GameChanger might quietly become one of the most valuable scouting databases in baseball. Think about the amount of youth travel baseball data being collected: - performance trends - velocity jumps - development curves - consistency over time Combine that with AI and projection models… And you could probably identify future breakout players years earlier than ever before. Late bloomers will always exist. But this feels like where scouting is eventually headed. What do you think?

@GowagsKyle Great talk! If you adjust for the context of the league, which the TS+ stat does, Jordan was at 108 for his career in Chicago, and so was LeBron.

One of the highlights of my class schedule is presenting on SPORT LEGENDS! I present a portion of a Michael vs LeBron

@TJHannam10 Even though Bobby is among the twitchiest players in baseball, and he doesn't really have big moves in his swing, he is beginning his load far earlier than most youth hitters do. At most HS games *very* few hitters get going this early.

Bobby Witt Jr. - High Cutter Home Run - What stands out with these views? - If a young hitter sees this video, what should he / she learn?

"Suit up."

@AndersonLMiller One of the best hitting posts I've ever read.

@flowsdoc @BaseballFlowsHQ Some guys move best and create the most force when they *don't* have much hip-shoulder separation, right?

This might sound controversial… But more “hip-to-shoulder separation” drills don’t help! Players are forcing separation… without the movement foundation to organize it efficiently. The result? ⚾ Energy leaks
⚾ Poor sequencing
⚾ Loss of athleticism Separation should emerge from better movement—not be forced.

@SangilloJohn This whole approach is to hitting what "one weird trick" is to weight loss fads. Rich has been around for a decade and if this was a universal best practice you would see people who adopt it dominating up and down amateur baseball. That's not what is happening.

Be careful listening to idiots selling hand-snapping fairy tales to desperate parents and young hitters. Another Teacherman student with everything completely backwards. Another young hitter taught to disconnect the body and throw the barrel around with the hands while the lower half does absolutely nothing productive. No brace.
No real pressure shift.
No real proximal-to-distal sequence. No real movement. Just spinning, yanking, collapsing, and praying the hands save the swing. This is what happens when someone teaches hitters to manipulate the barrel instead of teaching the body how to move. The pelvis never organizes.
The rear hip never truly turns under. The torso never delivers the barrel. The hands fire early because the body failed first. That fake “quickness” fools people who don’t understand movement. But against real velocity and real spin? It gets exposed fast. Everything is backwards:
hands before body,
arms before pressure,
spin before stability,
barrel before connection. And the sad part is young hitters waste years fighting compensations that never should’ve been taught in the first place. This is what happens when marketing and ego replace actual biomechanics. Another hitter paying the price for an adult pretending to understand movement.

@charliebcurran Could you make the hummingbird into the new Mockingjay?

LA doesn’t have to be like this. Vote Spencer Pratt.

Katyal was my 1L ConLaw prof. Nice guy, fair to conservative students. Also, enormous self-regard, and that is not normally a quality that improves with age.

@Seth_3773 Reggie Smith. Bucky Walters. Thurman Munson.

Name a player you think should be in the hall of fame. Not the normal guys! I’ll start Tommy John

@DOMA_Misconduct @The_ACNA Robinson is an open anti-Semite and the fact that he agrees with you on some things shouldn't blind you to that fact.

To put it another way—@the_ACNA's bishops would sooner risk platforming an active homosexual than an outspoken critic of "dual integrities".

@DrivelineBB Nolan and Mookie are both future Hall of Famers.

Which one is the future hall of famer? 🤔

@ThurmsCaddy @nut_history No, the quality and difficulty of the game has never been higher.

@Tim1AP @nut_history With MLB expansion the game is so watered down there could be a discount for today. There are not 861 MLB quality pitchers and that is the number of pitchers used last year.

I find ranking the second greatest baseman to be one of the hardest to do. In your opinion, who is the greatest second baseman of all-time? For me, I'm old-school, I am going with Rogers Hornsby

@nut_history Completely dirty and ejectable. Like clotheslining a guy on a fast break without attempting to touch the ball. He makes no attempt to touch the base it's all about max contact with the fielder.

Do you think this slide is clean or dirty?

"If I told you there was one free thing you could do every Sunday that would make your kids happier, healthier, smarter, and closer to you, you'd think I was selling something." Take your kids to church regularly. I don't care if you believe. The data is so lopsided that skipping it is the parenting equivalent of refusing vegetables because you don't like the taste. Grades. Religious teens get As at almost twice the rate of nonreligious teens. In a class of 100, that's 24 A-students instead of 14. Church gives a kid the same academic boost as being born rich instead of poor. College. Working-class religious kids earn bachelor's degrees at double the rate of their nonreligious peers. Middle-class kids do it at 1.5x the rate. For families without a trust fund, this is one of the most powerful forms of upward mobility social scientists have measured. Character. Religious teens are far less likely to lie, cheat, or do things they hope their parents never find out about. They're more likely to care about racial equality, the elderly, and the poor. They reject the idea that morality is whatever works for you in the moment. That kind of kid doesn't happen by accident. It's built. Closeness. 60% of parents of religious teens say they feel "extremely close" to their kid, compared to 50% of nonreligious parents. The kids report the same thing back. They get along better with their parents, talk about hard stuff, and actually want to spend time with their family. Despair. Religious teens are dramatically less likely to be depressed, anxious, lonely, or feel that life is meaningless. 90% of devoted religious teens never binge drink, compared to 41% of the disengaged. Economists named the modern epidemic "deaths of despair." Regular church attendance is one of the strongest known buffers against it. Parents are spending fortunes trying to solve teen mental health. The most evidence-backed intervention is free. Purpose. Religious young adults report higher purpose, gratitude, life satisfaction, and resilience. These are the exact traits every parent says they want their kid to have. Here's why it works. Affluent families already surround their kids with networks of stable, accomplished adults through neighborhoods, schools, and parents' colleagues. Working and middle-class families usually don't. A congregation is often the last institution in American life that puts your kid in weekly contact with dozens of stable, employed, sober adults who know their name. It used to be called "a village." Now it barely exists outside of churches. "But I don't believe." Your kid doesn't need your theology. They need you to show up. "But church is boring." So is sitting through a kindergarten music recital. Parenting is the deliberate choice to be bored on purpose for someone you love. There's a church within 15 minutes of nearly every American home. You don't need money, connections, or credentials to walk in. Nothing else in this country will surround your kid with engaged adults, teach them moral seriousness, and give them a stable weekly rhythm at zero cost. You already drive them to practices that produce far less. The free thing on Sunday produces more, on more dimensions, than almost anything else you do as a parent. You don't have to believe anything. You just have to take them.

This was a tremendous event for an indispensable organization. I'm proud that the 1st Amendment Partnership was originally a program of EPPC. EPPC's best days are ahead due in large part to the wisdom and charity of @RyanTAnd.

@Nate_moseby @TheBBallSage Sure. I mean aspirationally. Those are the two guys Kerr always cited as who JK should try to become and he apparently balked.

@Tim1AP @TheBBallSage Marion and Gordon are far better

Seems to me that Kuminga is a short minutes role player. He's too limited and raw still. Gotta have a bag, a consistent jumper, better court awareness on offense and defense. Ultra elite athleticism is not enough. This is basketball, not the Olympics Track and Field. Thoughts? .@jrichardgoodman