Hudson

Fractional CFO. Entrepreneur. CFA. Markets. Startups. Small Business Finance. Dad.

[dank @cptdankkk]

CC Sabathia says he gave up a $500,000 bonus to defend a teammate, but the Yankees paid him anyway

“They put a bonus in my contract, I think I needed like 140 innings to get 500 grand extra in my bonus. We go into Tampa, and I need six innings to get this bonus. I'm in the fourth inning, cruising. I'm getting this”

“Then they threw a ball up and in at my catcher, Austin Romine. I know baseball, so I knew that shit came from the bench. Because I threw a two-seamer in and hit Jake Bauers in the hand. So they made a big stink. They throw at Austin Romine. I come out of the dugout and I'm ready to go”

“Then everybody calms me back down. Gardy comes to me. He's like, ‘Bro, don't do it.’ And I was like, ‘Just be ready to fucking fight.’ That's all I told him. So their catcher comes up the next inning and I hit him with the first pitch. I wasn't mad at him. I was mad at the situation and who called it”

“I said what I said at their bench and I walked off. When I was walking off, in the moment, I was like, ‘Fuck, I don't know if I made the right decision.’ Then everybody came in after the game and they was all fired up. That was something where, in the moment, it was the right thing to do”

“It was just a snap decision. I was just trying to show this is how you take care of your teammates. My team was young. Luis Severino was in there. Judge was young. All those dudes were young. This is how you set the standard. Don't matter about the fucking money. You go and you do what you got to do for your teammates and everything else will work out. Hal called me the next day and paid me my bonus”

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@uscfan981 Piazza at C

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Derek Jeter says Michael Jordan wasn't as bad at baseball as people think

“First met Michael in 1994 while he was playing baseball in the Arizona Fall League. I'll point it out, he was not as bad as everyone makes him out to be”

“You take off since Little League and then you're playing baseball at 30 years old in Double-A, and you hit .200. That’s not easy to do. So he was not as bad as everyone says”

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@cbwritescopy Evergreen post

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@Barkley_Tap RedSox, Patriots, and Mets

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@HawkEmDownChris Steve Sax

[New York Post Sports @nypostsports]

Kid goes viral for crying about being a Mets fan, wanting to switch to the Yankees: 'I don't want to be the worst' https://t.co/JBINRxjEW0

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: Why In-N-Out Burger is impossible to compete with

In-N-Out Burger is one of the craziest business stories of the 20th and 21st centuries. The company has succeeded by breaking almost every rule in the business playbook. They don't franchise. They don't advertise. And yet, the average In-N-Out location generates far more revenue than a typical McDonald's restaurant.

It's a company that seems to ignore everything business schools tell you to do, and somehow, it's winning.

But the reason for In-N-Out's success isn't just the cult following or the secret menu. The real explanation lies in a few things that almost nobody talks about.

That's what this video is about. Let's dig into why In-N-Out Burger became so dominant.

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@MikeSalvatore10 He's also a borderline HOFer

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@BBGreatMoments

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@Barkley_Tap

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@NamethatYank Kevin Maas

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@TRichAlChemist @chamath What is so special about Claude? I mostly use Gemini in GSuite and Grok for idea generation/distillation, memos and comms, and presentations with limited success on the design side; also just tried Copilot on Excel with good success, and starting to build agent within Outlook.

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@JeffMacke

[Sander Tordoir @SanderTordoir]

Germany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets

In a new paper, @Brad_Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating

Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back

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[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

I note that this kind of chart gets a ton of retweets ...

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[Steve Everley @saeverley]

In the data center capital of the world, electricity rates *declined* from 2019-2024.

https://t.co/dOCXrrBkrc

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@_iamlougotti Mark Salas, lefty, palindrome

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@somefreethinkin @Molson_Hart I know him through mutuals but believe what you want👌.

[Hudson @hcccbiz]

@Molson_Hart This all seems very manageable at the local level, based on local characteristics. Setbacks, noise mitigation, water management (https://t.co/FDegFAHltz), power supplies and infrastructure.

Prob is local politicians not prioritizing constituents interests w smart guidelines.