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[IsWhat @PayForPlay9]

@BrandonTierney Development doesn’t stop at 17-18. Project ability is a thing.

[Chidanand Tripathi @thetripathi58]

Stop asking "Does that make sense?" when presenting your work.

Here are 18 professional alternatives you can steal:

[IsWhat @PayForPlay9]

@BauerOutage Nothing wrong with pushing kids to have a good fun HS career, enjoying the game and moving on with life … that ain’t dumb

[IsWhat @PayForPlay9]

@PSLToFlushing He can’t be denied

[IsWhat @PayForPlay9]

@JeffPassan It’s absurd to overturn a call over less than an inch off from an imagined arbitrary box. The zone has always been interpretive.

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

Steve Jobs responds perfectly to a disrespectful question🤯

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Larry David asking Martin Scorsese “do you even know what you’re doing?”

An all-time Curb Your Enthusiasm cameo. https://t.co/4YB4rw9dtU

[SNY @SNYtv]

"My dad introduced me to baseball in 1961. Everything about baseball I love, I got from my dad."

Howie Rose gets emotional talking about the relationship he had with his father, who passed away from Alzheimer's disease in 1978:

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

The hitter’s swings, foul balls, and takes give you a good idea of his approach. What do I mean?

Fastballs:

Is he late on the FB? Where are his foul balls? Pulled foul? Or over the opposite dugout? Or, is he taking them?

So, if late, this means that we pitch FB in, up, and expand down. If he’s taking them, he might be sitting strike offspeed.

Also, if he’s late on FB, be careful throwing a get me over strike offspeed pitch. You will be doing him a favor.

A good question to ask is, where can we go where his barrel can’t square the ball up?

Offspeed: is he pulling them foul? Are his takes good or bad? Does his swing look comfortable on the offspeed? Where does he chase?

A good tidbit to follow is that we should chase bad swings.

The best hitters in the world can make the adjustment pitch to pitch.

Most players, especially at the HS and below level, can’t do that. So if he takes a bad swing on a pitch, throw it again. If he takes it, throw a different pitch, then go back to bad swing pitch.

Another tidbit is that if the hitter fouls a ball straight back to the backstop, be very careful repeating that, because he just missed it.

Many more nuances to this but this is basic food for thought.

[IsWhat @PayForPlay9]

@KnicksMemes It wasn’t a blown call.

The strike zone is meant to be interpretive. It has been interpretive since the games inception.

The electronic box isn’t god. It’s
Interpretive too.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

June 1983. A 28-year-old Steve Jobs walks into a design conference in Aspen, Colorado. He asks the room who owns a personal computer. Nobody raises their hand. He says “Uh-oh.”

Then he spends the next 55 minutes describing the next four decades of technology.

Jobs told the audience Apple’s strategy was to “put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you, that you can learn how to use in 20 minutes… with a radio link in it so you don’t have to hook up to anything.” That’s an iPhone. In 1983. The Mac hadn’t even shipped yet.

He described an MIT project that sent a camera truck down every street in Aspen, photographed every intersection, and built a virtual walkthrough on a computer screen. Google Street View launched 24 years later. He said office networking was about 5 years away and home networking 10 to 15 years out. The web went mainstream in the mid-90s, about 12 years later. Dead on.

He described software being sent electronically over phone lines, with free previews and credit card payment. That’s the App Store, 25 years before it launched. He even compared it to the music industry and said software needed “the equivalent of a radio station” for free sampling. Apple built the iTunes Music Store 20 years later.

The AI prediction is the one that hits different now. Near the end, Jobs talked about machines that could capture a person’s “underlying spirit” or “way of looking at the world,” so that after they died, you could ask the machine questions and maybe get answers. He said 50 to 100 years. ChatGPT arrived in about 40.

The weird part is this speech was lost for nearly 30 years. The full hour-long recording only surfaced in 2012 when a blogger got a cassette tape from someone who attended the original conference. The Steve Jobs Archive didn’t release actual video footage until July 2024.

His timelines were consistently too fast. He wanted the “computer in a book” within the 1980s. Apple’s first attempt was the Macintosh Portable in 1989, which weighed 16 pounds and cost $6,500. The iPad arrived in 2010, 27 years late. He guessed voice recognition was about a decade away. Siri launched in 2011, nearly 30 years later. The vision was right every time. The clock was wrong every time.

Apple was doing about $1 billion a year in revenue when Jobs gave this talk, with under 5,000 employees. Today it’s worth $3.7 trillion.

[IsWhat @PayForPlay9]

@KDJmedia1 3x they didn’t get the man the ball with the game in the balance… great game. Just woulda liked to see AF with ball in hands.

[IsWhat @PayForPlay9]

@BrandonTierney 12u. You goin to Cooperstown this summer, BT?

[USA Baseball Coach @USABaseCoach]

How can we teach our hitters to get comfortable letting the ball travel? Coach Valli (@CoachValli) lays it all out for us 👇

[Funhouse @BackAftaThis]

These unruly callers used to be the best part about opening day in baseball.

[IsWhat @PayForPlay9]

@BrandonTierney USSSA bats are a joke. Yes?

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

How many chains is too many chains?

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

Throwback to what might be the worst play in baseball history

[Poppa Left @_the6thman]

Let’s relive this sequence

1. Jose “MJ” Alvarado Game 6 Steal on Kevin “Karl Malone” Durant

2. Alvarado Acrobatics

3. Alvarado and OG dap each other up.

4. Alvarado communicates the help to Jalen

5. Shamet and JB pinch down to the paint

6. Alvarado with the Ed Reed interception

7. Brunson displays quickness > speed + flashback to game 6 vs Detroit layup over Schroeder. Ridiculous balance and strength.

8. Kevin Durant gets a rare case of the yips cuz the Garden is going absolutely batshit.

In a New York Minute.