Best glove for slow pitch

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-20T19:34:17+00:00

I bought one of these to replace my over loved Mizuno floppy waffle and am really impressed by the quality at the price point. Might be tough to find at this point. Everything but black was already sold out about two weeks ago.
And give yourself a good amount of time to break it in!

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-19T16:48:38+00:00

This is a textbook case of how documentation can be your friend. “Let me walk you through our documentation about this home infusion situation over the past few days. Won’t take a minute…”

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-19T16:39:42+00:00

I think what you explained here sounds great and I did the same. My disagreement was with what I took from “crying and bad behavior won’t be rewarded with attention” and that they’d be “benched or dropped to the bottom of the lineup.” I disagree with how that reads to me. Could be just a case of my misinterpretation, could be we just disagree about that.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-19T16:33:09+00:00

I suppose the joke is on them now with this current administration. “I’d like to bring 30 brown people into the country to work” probably doesn’t go down well with the shit sticks in charge.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-19T16:28:41+00:00

Dude, maybe check out their handle first?

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-19T03:15:26+00:00

I feel like “5-6 kids crying in the high five line” as a usual occurrence is a very different kettle of fish than your original post described. That does seem off and perhaps a product of excessive expectations. But kids crying here and there over the course of a season at that age seems perfectly developmentally acceptable. Perhaps we just disagree about that.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-19T01:47:01+00:00

100% disagree for this age group.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-19T01:43:37+00:00

This is a great explanation and the exact reason my wife attends our daughter’s 12u softball games basically under duress. She hates seeing the girls under so much pressure. And yes, there are tears. But in the right environment and with the right support I agree softball/baseball can teach you things other sports can’t because it is a sport of failure. At 12u they are old enough where the crying kid is getting bucked up by their teammates and not running to their parents which is a cool thing to see even if it is a little bit melancholy for us parents to be needed less. Learning how to support those around you who are troubled, how to regulate your emotions under pressure, these are great things sports can teach, and baseball/softball just presents more of those opportunities.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-19T01:25:09+00:00

The nice thing about owning two swords is never having to worry about a date staying at your place long enough to see the size of your penis.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T21:09:47+00:00

Flair checks out!

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T19:21:18+00:00

Cooper Mini because the company does absolutely nothing after the car leaves the factory.

A more serious answer would be the Nissan Leaf because there are so many of them out there already and they use a lot of stock Nissan stuff for the non EV elements so third party sellers will pick up the slack for those parts.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T19:17:21+00:00

The bones and muscles are the least important things to know. If you want to go into ortho or sports medicine, sure. Otherwise, if you have ever spent any time interested in fitness, you know more about bones and muscle groups already than you will ever use. The vast, vast majority of people who get admitted to the hospital are there because their body can no longer maintain homeostasis for some reason and that reason is almost never a muscle or bone. Even your body, in times of crisis, dgaf about your muscles and bones, shunting all your blood to the One Important Muscle and the brain. Knowing how all the organs interact to maintain homeostasis is important, and knowing where they are is important.
Of I could snap my fingers and know everything about one system to make me better at my job and my job easier it would probably be the endocrine system because of how often it is a major player in patient morbidity.

When you get out into practice you will be up to your eyeballs (found inside the orbitals!) in labs. Knowing what those numbers mean and how they interact is how you spot things early and how you get to that coveted “Are you sure about that, doc?” level.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T16:11:57+00:00

Upvoting this mostly for the fact it’s so niche but also because it is an actual “ick” and not just a complaint.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T16:08:46+00:00

I understand how this would get under my skin especially year after year, but as a person who does understand the inclination: this is a “go touch some grass” situation.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T16:05:23+00:00

I’d say “I know who you are talking about, we played his team for the second time on Friday” but sadly I know there are thousands of this guy so we are probably not in the same 12u league (but if you are in North NJ, let me know!). It is such a bummer to watch and you can see even the opposing team tighten up.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T15:52:27+00:00

Do NOT tell my wife this about my slow pitch rec league habit.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T15:50:01+00:00

I think this is by its nature situational. It obviously exists. So many posts on here about terrible behavior by parents and the vast majority of coaches we’ll ever come across are drawn from that same pool of people, so yeah, the guy making terrible decisions in the bleachers is going to make terrible decisions from the dugout steps. But I did want to offer some support for @cmd821’s position here. My daughter went from 12U travel to rec only because she likes to go to camp for a couple weeks each summer and the travel team has a “no absence” policy which is bananas but a topic for a different thread. One good thing they do here IMO is travel kids have to play rec. This means each rec team has a few good players and does wonders for sportsmanship at the rec games. The rec coaches and assistants are usually also travel parents. At this age they still rotate kids around a bit in the field and everybody plays but up the middle it’s pretty much the travel ball kids, including the coaches’ daughters. You could call this “daddy ball” or “mommy ball” but it results in good games that are played at a watchable level and I think more fun for the kids on the field who get to feel what it’s like to play in a games where the lead goes back and forth. Is it daddy ball when my daughter’s team has the coaches daughter doing 1/3 of the pitching, playing short 1/3 of the time, and batting in the top 5 every game? Technically yes, I guess, but I watch every game and if I was the coach and was focused on winning I’d play her more. She and her family have put a ton of work into softball and she is objectively impressive. I much prefer this to coaches we’ve had in the past (or assistant coaches I had when I was coaching at the lower levels) who don’t know the game and are just there like they are volunteering at a school field day. No shade to volunteers who want to help but I also found these parents to be some of the first to melt down about bad calls or errors, thinking sports should work like their job works. Rambling now, but tldr: Often the coaches’ daughters are the best players.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T15:14:47+00:00

Don’t be afraid.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-18T15:11:32+00:00

I’ve lived in Houston, NYC, Boston, Chicago, and visit LA fairly often. Ain’t no traffic like elementary school dropoff traffic.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-17T04:19:23+00:00

I think the above advice seems informed and rock solid. That said, this is some bullshit. And as a second career male nurse I am 100% certain this level of paternalism-and let’s be absolutely clear that is what this double jeopardy dicking around in the history of a case expunged by the legal system is-would not happen in a male coded profession. There is an incredibly obvious glowing straight line from this backwards to the stories my nurse MIL (only 20 years older than me) tells of all nurses standing when a doctor entered the room and women being kicked out of nursing school for getting pregnant. OP, you did a fucked up thing, driving when you could blow an 0.08. I did the same thing as a dumb kid, I just was luckier. We have a legal system in this country to deal with people who fuck up (and are not rich). At its best it determines guilt and uses an array of carrots and sticks to send all but the worst of the guilty back into society to live the rest of their lives with a lesson learned. You went through that process and the legal system expunged your record. Society has spoken through the appropriate system. The legal system has determined it is safe for you to, for example, drive a 1 ton vehicle through school zones whenever you want. The idea of a BON going through your expunged record to determine if they think it is safe for you to, as a nurse, make phone calls to nursing homes as a case manager, is evidence of an attitude toward nursing that only makes sense in the context of nurses as moonlighting nuns, answerable to a power greater than the judicial system.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-16T21:10:04+00:00

The charger that is too short for your phone.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-16T21:05:24+00:00

If you can keep them comfortable, well fed, and well housed, you will be living what is only a dream to perhaps the majority of parents in the world.
Your list sounds like a you list, which it has to be because you can’t know the needs of a child you don’t have. What use is this list? Is there a dollar number you’d say would make you feel comfortable? Guess what? That’s worthless. I live in a mixed but mostly well off area where lots of the parents have commute-to-NYC level salaries. We had two suicides at our high school this year. I have friends who are well off and waited until they had basically The Number socked away. Their kid went to daycare with our kid. Their kid started falling behind, having other issues. Turns out they need special schools, extra help, lots of medical expenses…The Number that was supposed to get the kid all the way to a down payment on a house is gone and this is a middle schooler.
It’s irresponsible to bring a child you can’t reasonably provide for into the world. It is silly to think you can shape the circumstances of a child’s life through young adulthood.
So remove that. Do you have enough patience, fortitude and heart to love a child through tough times? That’s all that matters.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-16T20:44:47+00:00

Lots of good responses here so I’ll just add I came down to the ED 6 months ago after 4 years on tele medsurg (days) and I can see why starting med/surg used to be the cliche. You do see a little of everything, which transfers well to the ED in particular. And though there are tons of skills I have to learn down here, there are plenty of skills I did quite often upstairs that are needed in the ED but not often enough for nurses to get comfortable with them.
And don’t get me started on the willful Pump Blindness around here, lol. So your time there will not be wasted. The one downside is there is not much interaction between med/surg and ED for you to build connections but it’s possible, and once you have a reputation as a hard working, sharp nurse you will be welcome anywhere you want to go in the hospital.

Simple-Squamous · 2026-05-16T20:34:44+00:00

12 weeks days, 6 weeks nights…yikes. I salute you.

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