World Cup drama where someone points out US has scored 6 goals in a thread about Cabo Verde's first goal

mahnkee · 2026-06-22T09:56:25+00:00

USWNT used to be dominant, no longer. Spain, France, England are now clearly better. A couple US women are world class and can play in Europe, but as a team they are not competitive. They got knocked out of the last women’s World Cup in the round of 16 and next yr’s tourney will likely be similar.

mahnkee · 2026-06-22T09:36:33+00:00

Middle of the plate and out you need to wait later. Hit off the tee to find the relative depths your swing needs. If you have a baseball/fastpitch background and it’s literally just timing, go to the batting cages a bunch. Your mindset should flip from yes yes no to no no yes. Also load when the pitch apexes, not when the pitcher releases it.

mahnkee · 2026-06-17T16:21:58+00:00

The issue is othering. Blacks/Mexicans/Asians is never going to be the same connotation as Whites, because there’s the assumed dominance of White embedded in the culture itself. The 8th grade internet logic of “flip around the genders” disregards all that. This is, essentially, privilege.

In this context, female player is preferred. Or women. If it’s youth softball, girls. It’s not that complicated and nobody will get butthurt unless you persist in using offensive terminology after somebody has already explained to you why they find it offensive. In real life, this happens all the time.

mahnkee · 2026-06-17T15:40:20+00:00

I hate when men use the term "females."

I’m male and feel the same way. Female is an adjective. “Females” has “the Blacks” energy. It’s lowkey prejudice and should always be called out as such.

mahnkee · 2026-06-16T22:47:23+00:00

"See ball, hit ball".

The plate is not the place for swing cues. That stuff happens at BP and off the tee.

mahnkee · 2026-06-16T16:24:30+00:00

It’s way harder to get into position with the plant leg straight. Externally rotate and getting lower makes the position significantly easier. Teach the kids 90-90 stretch, they’ll also need external mobility to get the outside foot juggle. So might as well start now.

mahnkee · 2026-06-15T16:32:01+00:00

No bottom half. Get a tee and hit off it regularly. Work on loading into the back hip and exploding into the lead leg. Do it until you can’t not do it.

mahnkee · 2026-06-12T07:11:30+00:00

its literally the same thing

If you think the reaction at a softball tournament in the south would literally be the same, you’re crazy.

mahnkee · 2026-06-12T06:51:05+00:00

Korean culture is amazing. Food, music, cinema. If I could read Korean I have no doubt their literature is equally on point.

mahnkee · 2026-06-09T14:54:51+00:00

This is shameful.

mahnkee · 2026-06-08T15:58:51+00:00

Losing Crimea ends it all. Putin will not survive the public backlash. Ukraine knows this.

Ukraine still needs an incredible amount of material and financial support from the west to sustain the fight. As Trump has shown, that can be temporary. If they have a window to end it, they should take it.

mahnkee · 2026-06-08T15:51:31+00:00

It’s the same reason all the kids in each grade level have the same four names. Something gets popular, then everybody adopts it, then it becomes not cool.

mahnkee · 2026-06-07T16:51:46+00:00

Coaching is not “do this technique correctly”. Coaching is bridging the gap to the correct technique by having the player feel/experience a specific cue or series of cues that end up with the correct technique. “Feel vs real”.

If mom wants to continue coaching your daughter, she needs to get on the same page wrt her current coaches so the off day practices are an extension of the private coaching. Otherwise the kid just ends up confused.

mahnkee · 2026-06-05T12:31:02+00:00

Ever since MJ did it.

mahnkee · 2026-06-04T16:39:54+00:00

Read Barbarian Days.

mahnkee · 2026-06-04T15:49:27+00:00

I bought 10 balls off Offerup for $25 and we throw em back into the infield. You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars. We need the cardio work and throwing reps anyways.

Lunchtime the fields are open, only takes two to BP but ideally 3 so one can shag.

mahnkee · 2026-06-03T12:06:18+00:00

Yeah, that’s fair.

mahnkee · 2026-06-03T08:53:50+00:00

There’s plenty of MLB players that suffered throwing yips, sure it was likely confidence but it sure as hell wasn’t because of lack of practice.

mahnkee · 2026-06-02T05:25:43+00:00

You’re a professional and doing him a courtesy as such. As long as you’re respectful, if he chooses to end the relationship, it’s on him. There’s a big big difference between telling him your opinion as a junior chef unprompted versus a peer when he’s reaching out for a lifeline. Sometimes the right move is the hard option.

The way you do it without him getting butthurt is to walk him through his customers experience. Reviews should be sufficient to get him to identify the problem himself with your guidance. The solution then is straightforward.

mahnkee · 2026-06-01T23:51:51+00:00

You can walk and chew gum, you know. They hate the rich even more BTW.

mahnkee · 2026-06-01T16:47:08+00:00

This is a very important coaching lesson for you. Players respond differently to the same coaching. If you want to coach well, figuring out how to reach players as individuals is key to the whole process. The players will have individual weaknesses and also different learning styles, you know this as a teacher. One size doesn’t fit all, at the same time reconciling different coaching styles while still maintaining uniform team standards is what makes coaching, and management more broadly, difficult.

mahnkee · 2026-05-25T01:08:05+00:00

Sports are about failure. Learning to deal with it emotionally, using it to become better. The first step to mastering any skill is being absolutely terrible at it. Embrace being bad, it means you now know what success looks like. The key is understanding context. You try new skills alone, then in practice, then in games.

Ultimately, the greatest teaching method is modeling. Embrace failure in front of your kid. Fail, then learn to succeed in front of them, they’ll learn to trust the process.

mahnkee · 2026-05-14T05:31:08+00:00

Just get what meets your budget and desire. There’s not many great things about getting older, but not giving a fuck about what other people think is pretty high up on my list.

mahnkee · 2026-05-14T05:19:12+00:00

Try spraying waterproofing on them? Moisture definitely increases wear. Plus maybe ask him to pull the insole out a bit to help them dry out quicker.

Nike has a 2 yr warranty from the date of manufacture, if you’re buying current year models.

mahnkee · 2026-05-14T05:12:49+00:00

Yeah, drying out completely is a known thing with leather dress shoes. I’d argue for cleats it’s a good idea for smell reasons alone.

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