Will Clark on why he won’t coach:
“People ask me why I don’t get into coaching or get into managing and all that, I am not going to pat you on the back and tell you you’re doing a good job when you’re hitting .220 and you strikeout 100 times. You actually suck. I’m gonna tell you that you suck. I’m going to tell you to make a fucking adjustment and if you don’t make an adjustment, you’re going to the minor leagues and somebody else is going to go take your spot. Sorry, that’s the way the fucking game goes. This is a big boy game. Not a little boy game. And you have to have fucking thick skin. If you don’t have thick skin, get out the way because I’m gonna fucking steamroll you.”
@theerealbigray@Marv3lousMike@OutlawParlays Crazy how he get to charging people money and silent now , same shit happening to me paid the $25 and can’t get in the cord and no reply from him of course
JORGE POSADA: “I CAN’T WATCH TODAY’S BASEBALL.”
Yankees legend Jorge Posada, a 4-time World Series champion and one of the faces of the dynasty years, (The Core 4) did not hold back during his interview on Abriendo El Podcast.
Posada said today’s game has become too robotic, too obsessed with formulas, and too accepting of strikeouts.
“The baseball being played today is garbage,” Posada said.
He also pushed back hard on the analytics crowd trying to judge Derek Jeter’s defense strictly through modern numbers.
“You can’t judge Jeter through a computer.”
That line right there is pure old-school Yankees.
Posada came from an era where putting the ball in play mattered. Moving runners mattered. Taking pride in not striking out mattered. He said back then, striking out 100 times in a season felt like you were not doing your job.
Now? Guys can strike out constantly, hit 30 home runs, bat .202, and still get paid like stars.
His message was simple:
The game got smarter on paper, but dumber between the lines. #yankees #repbx
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Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.
The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.
What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.
Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.
In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.
Lamar Jackson on Declan Doyle's Ravens offense:
"It's a different system than I'm accustomed to being in and I feel like it's gonna be a lot of explosiveness going on this year. Because of the way Dec calls plays and his creativity with his mind and how detailed he is ... it's like mind-blowing. I'm excited."
via @Ravens
"Go out and freaking buy a bar tab and make all the boys go out there... air some stuff out. Come to the ballpark the next day. Let's roll baby"
Will Clark has some ideas on how a struggling team can get back on track.