Justin Verlander on the biggest change in pitching since 2005:
Analytics changed everything.
Some of it's great.
But JV says the danger now is analysts deciding whether a pitch is good based on the data, instead of how hitters actually react to it in games.
This hat maker just paid a beautiful tribute to Sam Neill by recreating Dr. Alan Grant’s iconic hat from Jurassic Park.
You can tell how much care went into every detail — the shape, the wear, the character. It’s not just a replica. It’s a quiet way of saying thank you to the man who made that character feel so real for so many of us.
What a lovely way to honor him.
This guy shows how to make your own vanilla extract with just two ingredients — and it’s way better (and way cheaper) than what you buy at the store.
He uses a simple 1:8 ratio of vanilla beans to vodka, splits the beans so they extract faster, and keeps a big “mother jar” going that he’s had for over 9 years. You just top it off with fresh beans and alcohol when it gets low, and it keeps getting better and better.
If you bake or cook a lot, this is actually pretty genius. Have you ever made your own vanilla extract before?
The CEO of StubHub exposed in SEC documents to own a hedge fund thats scalping millions of tickets on StubHub making a fortune
Everything is a scam
“StubHub bills itself as an online marketplace for fans where they can buy and sell tickets, but it turns out that StubHub CEO himself also has a hedge fund that is scalping millions of dollars worth of its own tickets”
“The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange last fall. They had to file documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in those SEC filings, we find some interesting information. The CEO, Eric Baker, actually owns and manages a hedge fund by the name of Andro Capital.
Its business: selling millions of dollars worth of tickets on StubHub — So essentially, StubHub and its CEO are in the business of mass scalping”
Here’s a step by step of how the scam works
- StubHub CEO’s Andro Capital buys large numbers of tickets, sometimes in bulk from primary sellers, other brokers and events
- They then list and sell those same tickets on StubHub at much higher prices
- When fans buy the tickets, Andro makes a profit on the price difference, this is the scalping markup
- StubHub helps them by handling the listing, pricing and delivery of the tickets, sometimes with special arrangements or lower fees for Andro
The result is millions of dollars in ticket sales flow through Andro on StubHub, and the profits go back to the hedge fund that StubHub CEO Baker owns and manages
It means with his big money and influence he can move in early, gets the tickets for events, then mark them and rob everyone blind
Finally, someone made a video explaining how to read a tape measure. I’ve gone my whole life just counting the little lines like, “Okay, that’s 6 inches… plus five little lines."
He said he’d show us how to read a tape measure in under a minute… turns out he’s much better at reading measurements than he is at reading a clock.
Meanwhile, this guy is out here making it sound so simple. I feel both educated and personally attacked.
Do how to read a tape measure, or are you also out here counting lines like me?
New trailer for ‘IDIOTS’, starring Dave Franco, O’Shea Jackson Jr and Mason Thames
The film follows 2 unqualified bozos who are hired to transfer a rich kid to rehab but their gig quickly turns into mayhem.
In theaters on August 28.
Flip the mound around. 🧐
- Throwing uphill exposes late pelvis rotation
- The body self-organizes to find better timing
- Front hip, hamstrings, and glutes all engage earlier