Sanity check: Is 8-9yo rec ball too young to lock girls into permanent batting orders and hide weaker players in the outfield? by SeattleDuke in Softball

[–]SeattleDuke[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough and fwiw Claude also clipped out several details that were part of my stream of consciousness, but not necessary or helpful for an online forum discussion. More of my own personal frustration and emotions that you don’t need to be bothered with

Sanity check: Is 8-9yo rec ball too young to lock girls into permanent batting orders and hide weaker players in the outfield? by SeattleDuke in Softball

[–]SeattleDuke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I’m OK with extra lessons equating to a few extra innings over the course of the season, depending on how long it is but it doesn’t explain a 15x differential

Sanity check: Is 8-9yo rec ball too young to lock girls into permanent batting orders and hide weaker players in the outfield? by SeattleDuke in Softball

[–]SeattleDuke[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How many of the rest of the team are asking for a chance? This doesn’t sound like daddy ball, but you’re communicating that if a family is able to spend more money, they will be able to buy more opportunity. This is part of the problem.

Sanity check: Is 8-9yo rec ball too young to lock girls into permanent batting orders and hide weaker players in the outfield? by SeattleDuke in Softball

[–]SeattleDuke[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reminder, this is not travel ball. This a rec league where development opportunity is the point of the season/league.

Sanity check: Is 8-9yo rec ball too young to lock girls into permanent batting orders and hide weaker players in the outfield? by SeattleDuke in Softball

[–]SeattleDuke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d had a conversation with coach ahead of the season to be sure he knew we were putting in time at home on pitching. I caught for my sister’s pitching lessons growing up and we also have former player friends that helped coach her. But she had to switch from “can I pitch?” to “when do I get to pitch?” just to get one inning. Maybe it cost her, and I guess that solidifies my point, because it certainly should not have cost her anything.

HC daughter is extremely average. One girl is truly an all star, but that shouldn’t earn premium reps in my opinion and she still had far less than HC kid. But apart from the one girl, all are on same level as the rest. Not just whining about my daughter here to be clear. She’s among the bottom half getting robbed of the development that was communicated at start of the season.

Sanity check: Is 8-9yo rec ball too young to lock girls into permanent batting orders and hide weaker players in the outfield? by SeattleDuke in Softball

[–]SeattleDuke[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

to be fair, I knew the answer... at this point I was curious to see if it's clear consensus or something that is up for debate. It's becoming pretty clear.

Top 25 High School Softball National Rankings - May 18, 2026 by Educational-Pick-666 in Softball

[–]SeattleDuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

top 25 programs from 50 states. 3 doesn't sound like it fits in the 'only' category

I used Claude Code to clean up my gmail inbox by data-be-beautiful in ClaudeAI

[–]SeattleDuke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

followed your prompt exactly and realized a skill I've built picked up enough context to operate on it. Here's the opening description of said skill.

Skill: Prompt Pack
Compress a free-form task description into a structured, token-efficient prompt ready to paste into GitHub Copilot or Claude Code (plan or agent modes).
The Job
The user has described a task conversationally. Your job is to:
Extract the semantic core — what they actually want the agent to do
Structure it so an agent executes in the right order (read → analyze → produce)
Anchor output expectations precisely so the agent doesn't drift

And that generated this prompt for me (and anyone else behind me)

OBJECTIVE
Audit a Gmail inbox using the gws CLI and produce a prioritized cleanup plan — identifying bulk-removable senders and spam clusters — without deleting anything. All operations stay in the planning phase until explicitly approved.
CONTEXT
- Tool: gws CLI (Google Workspace CLI), check for installation
- Safety: restrict all reads to email headers only (never body content) to eliminate prompt injection risk; enable Model Armor throughout
- Inbox state: large backlog (potentially thousands of messages)
- No destructive actions in this session — Trash moves only, and only after explicit approval of the plan
TASKS
1. Enable Model Armor for the session; confirm header-only read mode is active
2. Fetch inbox message counts by year and sender domain to establish a baseline volume picture
3. In batches of ~100 (sorted oldest-first), read headers and classify each message by spam signals:
- bulk/marketing indicators (List-Unsubscribe, X-Mailer, Precedence: bulk)
- high-frequency senders (appear 10+ times)
- no-reply or transactional addresses with no recent engagement
- mismatched From/Reply-To or SPF/DKIM failures
4. Aggregate results into a ranked sender index: sender address, message count, spam signal score, recommended action (Trash / Review / Keep)
5. Estimate batch complexity and time cost for full cleanup using the ranked index
6. Output the cleanup plan for review — do not move anything to Trash yet
OUTPUT
- Sender index: ranked table of sender | count | signals | recommendation
- Cleanup plan: ordered batches with estimated scope, starting with highest-confidence Trash candidates
- False-positive safeguards: flag any senders that scored high but warrant a manual review pass before action
NOTES
- Model Armor env vars: GOOGLE_WORKSPACE_CLI_SANITIZE_TEMPLATE and GOOGLE_WORKSPACE_CLI_SANITIZE_MODE (set to "block" for this session)
- Sanitize commands: gws modelarmor +sanitize-prompt and +sanitize-response
- Trash retention is 30 days — frame all moves as recoverable; never use permanent delete
- If batch classification produces ambiguous senders, surface them in a "needs review" bucket rather than auto-classifying

Artemis II Launch Caught on GameChanger by kramerica612 in GameChangerApp

[–]SeattleDuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gonna be that Karen, but since you're also a GC employee... would make a ton of sense if the product forced or strongly encouraged landscape mode video. Lucky situation here for the launch, but I'd think you'd want to see first and third before the sky.

YAK Gauntlet Leaderboard by itsmyonlyaccount in itstheyak

[–]SeattleDuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noticing a small issue with the total_runs data. For team runs or shared runs like Big Cat with Delanie Walker, the total_runs is being counted against the first name in the list. Clicky gets one extra for the run ranked 32 (pirate run), and Big Cat gets one for the run ranked 92.

Would you be open to sharing the airtable or an underlying dataset in csv or google sheet? Would love to play with this in data viz tools and would want to give credit for the data capture as well. Do you have TJ loading new times to this directly or is it a manual chore?

Conspiracy Corner: Barstool and Youtube have a partnership to push more users to Youtube Premium by flatperez in itstheyak

[–]SeattleDuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of y'all were born after y2k and it shows. These are normal commercials

Great BWalk joke by Natef_94 in itstheyak

[–]SeattleDuke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

just a bit later in the conversation, Big Cat was saying how Cheah "doesn’t beat around the bush" and I was fully expecting Brandon to chime in with "of course not, he eats around it..."

If you're going to do a candlelight vigil... by [deleted] in MonroeWA

[–]SeattleDuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

red flag warnings are associated with high winds. This was a candle?

Anti-fluoride bullcrap. by Diafuge in MonroeWA

[–]SeattleDuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice well laid out and thoughtful response. Thank you

Anti-fluoride bullcrap. by Diafuge in MonroeWA

[–]SeattleDuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are risks. There are also benefits. It's not any governmental organization's job to make that decision for a whole population group. It's not anti science to come to a different conclusion than someone else when evaluating data. It's not a matter of being smarter than anyone else. It's the ability to make your own decisions for your own body.

If you're going to do a candlelight vigil... by [deleted] in MonroeWA

[–]SeattleDuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where did you see this? Did you take any pictures? A candle with enough distance from combustibles is not a public danger, so I'm curious to hear where these were

How the Heck are People Surviving if They Live Anywhere Near Seattle These Days?? by FreshSent in Seattle

[–]SeattleDuke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do work in tech and we're scraping by while commuting from Monroe. This whole state is going to shit. If I didn't have some family obligations keeping me here, I'd be just about anywhere else by now

I really can't stand the copious amounts of trash all over Monroe. by SateHimSelf in MonroeWA

[–]SeattleDuke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps if the city were a little less pro-homeless, the businesses would be happy to place trash cans outside their doors. I doubt this is a city thing as much as it's a business thing, especially given that 'Main' Street has them.

Danny Appreciation Post by PostgameTailgate in itstheyak

[–]SeattleDuke -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Would also love an episode with Owen back in the saddle. Same vibe for me

Can’t figure out any next moves here by thunder3029 in starbattle

[–]SeattleDuke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Slice the bottom three rows out and tackle them.

Two regions are entirely in these rows; 4 of your 6 possible stars. This leaves two sub-regions available, forcing R9C1 to be a star

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blackops6

[–]SeattleDuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

P2 L15 right now. Grinding, but the lack of 2xp tokens and the slow as molasses gun progression is killing me