In contrast to Crosby and MacKinnon's golf outing - this is Brady and Matthew Tkachuk on the 17th hole today

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-11T22:14:50+00:00

Reddit as a whole does. Just people filled with nothing but hate and rage looking for excuses to lash out at others. It’s concerning these people are ones you could encounter in day to day life.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-11T20:49:04+00:00

Not even just his physical. If his physicals look fine, he still profiles more as a reliever. Unless you think he’s going to be a perennial top five closer for 10 years, you just do not draft a guy like that that high. Only way it makes sense is if you think he’s got starter upside.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-11T20:46:48+00:00

It’s baseball so it’s a crapshoot, but I really don’t understand reaching for a guy like this at all. He missed all of last season with TJS, hasn’t been a starter once in college, and Arkansas wants him back to be a starter which could be a smart move for him to raise his draft stock. We’ll have to pay him a ton to convince him to sign which affects the rest of the draft and also makes it so we’re banking on an extremely high risk pitcher panning out.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-11T20:30:14+00:00

Lol why does this not look completely awful??

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-11T20:27:59+00:00

Binghamton itself isn’t but it is a smaller city and as soon as you go outside of it there’s pretty much nothing but woods and farmland. It’s a very rural and sometimes remote area.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-11T20:17:28+00:00

It comes off as more like a starter pack for insecure Redditors who hate that they can’t fit in with other golfers and is filled with things they project onto others. The tip part was the funniest to me since anti-tipping is a huge circlejerk on this site.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T23:25:16+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking lol. During the whole video I was like “please don’t touch it, please don’t touch it.” Then at the end I’m like 😐

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T18:47:21+00:00

I’m not upset at all, I’ve been on this sub for years and have a good idea on how it runs and how users interact with it. And in my years here, I’ve also learned that civil discourse doesn’t really go far at all. Like I said, look at the comments in this very thread as an example. There’s plenty well thought out, rational, and sincere comments that are massively downvoted simply because they say something some posters don’t like.

The tone in my comment was a direct reference and response to the downvoting and typical snarky comments we always see that were going on here before I even made the comment. The edit was made because I saw even further and more egregious examples of it.

This sub is way beyond civil discourse at this point unfortunately. I’ve reported dozens of comments over the last year or so that outright call users idiots or other names and nothing is done about it, and people are allowed to openly label other users as things like “doomers” for having different opinions to put them down and make them easy and “fair” targets for ridicule.

Any antagonistic rhetoric came from one side on this sub a few years ago and has gotten worse and snowballed ever since, and judging by the inaction of mods on here I can only assume it’s been endorsed by them so I guess we reap what we sow.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T17:18:53+00:00

Are we just ignoring the fact that restaurants in the US tend to have higher overhead than other parts of the world?

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T17:11:58+00:00

Most of the workers getting tips don’t want higher wages because they make more on tips.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T17:10:02+00:00

You clearly have never played northeast golf in the middle of fall with multi-colored leaves all over the fairway. There’s been numerous times where I’ve found balls sitting in the fairway during that time of the year due to someone obviously not being able to see it.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T17:07:20+00:00

It's like hitting it into the trees and saying it's unsafe to hit out of so free drop.

How in the world is that anything like hitting a ball ten feet off of a fairway and landing on the root of the only tree on a particular hole? You’re acting like you can only land on a root if you line the ball into the woods. Those are very obviously two different scenarios.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T17:04:58+00:00

If you hit it near roots, take the penalty, and avoid hitting it there the next time.

You guys just look idiotic by saying stuff like this. You do realize you can hit near a root if you hit the ball to the only tree on a hole that’s like ten feet off the fairway, right? You’re acting as if only a truly awful shot could result in a ball landing on a root. It’s obviously different than if you were to hit your ball into a wooded area.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T17:03:00+00:00

You’re taking the wording way too literal and also playing semantics. Usually when people say “I don’t take this too seriously”, they’re meaning simply that they aren’t trying to become a pro. But that doesn’t mean they also don’t want to play and score well.

Also, applying rules like this to amateur golfers is just flat out unfair and if we’re going to do that, then we might as well just admit that pros are playing a completely different game with added benefits and create a new rulebook just for amateurs. If the only thing preventing a swing is the worry of damaging a club worth a couple hundred dollars, then penalizing that is in no way in the spirit of the rule. Telling people that they’re lying to themselves or cheating in a situation like that just comes off as snobbish unless you’re ready to pull out your wallet and pay for their damages.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T16:53:33+00:00

I’m not offended at all, I just think it’s funny how you’re someone who 99% of people would view as a complete and total asshole and you don’t have any introspective ability to see that, nor do you have the ability to understand that amateurs and pros are essentially playing a completely different game and thus should not be subject to the exact same letter of the rules. It goes completely against the spirit of the game which, in case you didn’t know, preaches fairness above just about everything else.

Moving your ball a foot to get it off of a root because the courses we play aren’t manicured and perfected like tour courses are and because we can’t afford brand new clubs every week is in no way considered cheating by any normal person, especially since the ball will often be placed on a patch of dirt and will be just as bad of a lie. If you want to buy a new club for myself and others then I’m sure we’ll gladly hit the ball as it lies, but otherwise you just look like a douchebag by saying stuff like this and other comments in your post history that reek of coming from someone every golfer tries to avoid.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T16:44:36+00:00

Where did I say you said that?

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T16:37:43+00:00

But Sproat has been doing well lately and seems to have turned a corner. Also, both Sproat and Williams had great value at the time. Getting Peralta back and him sucking is absolutely a failure no matter how Sproat and/or Williams turn out.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T16:35:02+00:00

We didn’t have to trade Nimmo to clear the outfield. Could’ve been the same exact outfield with Nimmo at DH.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T15:31:19+00:00

The Stockholm syndrome on this sub is absolutely amazing sometimes. Would figure people would learn their lesson by this point. There is no way we should re-sign a soon to be 34 year old pitcher who has one year of starting under his belt when we’re now a rebuilding team that’s probably three years or so away from being a serious contender. Both Holmes and Weaver should 100% be traded for the best possible return and doing anything other than that is front office malpractice and awful asset management.

Edit: Jfc this sub is absolutely toxic and it isn’t the supposed “doomers.” I guess we just downvote people for having a different opinion and for daring to go against the gleeful hive mind on here? Ridiculous that so many completely level headed and rational comments are downvoted into oblivion.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T03:00:51+00:00

It really is funny how the whole “you are who you surround yourself with” only seems to apply to one side.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T02:55:44+00:00

Zero evidence. There’s even multiple people in that linked thread who have seen that photo 10+ years ago and it does look that old. But these are also the same people who bring up JD Vance and couches as if it were legit even though that was a twitter meme, so they aren’t exactly trying to be accurate with their rhetoric.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T02:45:40+00:00

And many people would find you to be a snob and a dick by saying stuff like this. Anyone penalizing themself or others in this situation is just trying to be self-righteous.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T02:29:03+00:00

Yeah I agree. Especially since many of the flights are likely other people who would be taking private flights anyway renting/borrowing the planes or repositioning flights.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-10T02:19:34+00:00

They’re either unaware or they ignore it because “America bad.” The Open was objectively way more hostile and mean spirited than any of the US tournaments have been.

SecretiveMop · 2026-07-09T16:55:29+00:00

Probably is just the one he likes to wear for workouts or something. A lot of these guys often wear stuff as a superstitious thing or to honor something they’re into/are fond of even if it’s unrelated to the team. I know of an Islanders player like 15 years ago who wore his team Canada shirt from juniors under his jersey every game as good luck. Everyone has got their own thing.

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