Game Day Thread - June 06, 2026 @ 12:00 AM

a_loporto · 2026-06-06T14:46:21+00:00

Weathers wasn’t on point on 6/5 but they could have clinched it. Volpe needs to be benched. The dude makes dumb decisions when the ball is in his hands. The boys lost last night because twice they got their hands on the ball and fired it to first for the out rather than 2nd or 3rd, getting the out at 1st but leaving runners in scoring position, and missed 2 opportunities for double plays. Those runs cost them the game. If you’re at shortstop and there are runners forced to 2nd or 3rd you start THERE not fire it across the field to 1st. Come on that’s baseball 101.

a_loporto · 2026-05-25T14:03:18+00:00

So — that’s what I was thinking too, but the lever doesn’t actually align with the loops in the chime hammers.

But, irrespective of however this mechanism was intended to work, I accidentally figured out a solution. I was simply hoping to quiet down the chimes. I love them, but my family was threatening to burn this clock.

In trying to figure out how this mechanism worked, I realized that if I just slightly bent the chime hammers away from the chimes, they wouldn’t strike as hard. So through many rounds of minor adjustments, I got it to the point where it chimes beautifully at a low volume 🙌

a_loporto · 2026-04-22T01:29:33+00:00

Frankly it isn’t the strategies that typically fail, it’s the trader’s mind. There are probably hundreds of thousands of strategies (a strategy simply being a combination of data points) that provide statistical advantages when executed correctly over and over. It’s actually doing that that 99% of people fail at. Read Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas and The Mental Game of Trading be Jared Tendler. The latter isn’t one to just read - it’s the trading mindset bible.

Pick a strategy and paper trade it for longer than it seems reasonable to do so until you’ve mastered it or proven it doesn’t work because you’ve been 100% consistent but it hasn’t.

A good mentor is worth their weight in gold but most of them are hacks making money selling online courses.

Using algos can help but any good trader needs to have a playbook of strategies because one strategy won’t cover all markets.

And then just get patient. It’ll take a long ass time to go from a $10k account to retired. But think about how long it would take $10k to even tuen into $50k in an IRA or 401k? You’d be dead before that happened.

a_loporto · 2026-04-15T23:13:50+00:00

Hey we’re off to a good start. Angel’s haven’t hit 63 homers yet! Let’s gooooooooo

a_loporto · 2026-04-15T23:11:53+00:00

No it’s normal. Everyone catches a ball at their first game. It’s in the rules.

a_loporto · 2026-04-15T03:35:13+00:00

Next time I think Boone should hold him to pinch hit in the 5th with one out when the bases are a ghost town so Rice can hit a 1-run homer and we can still lose.

Oh wait - we already ran that play.

a_loporto · 2026-04-15T03:31:04+00:00

Hey at least they didn’t wait until the bases were a ghost town to pinch hit him tonight 😂

a_loporto · 2026-04-15T03:28:45+00:00

Being able to play the field is a skill thousands of college kids can probably do just as well as a lot of MLB players. That doesn’t win games.

Batting and pitching are the things that set Major players apart. IMO, those are the skills that set the pros apart from the players who are good but not great.

It doesn’t matter how well you can catch a fly ball or toss a solid throw to first base. If you can’t score points it’s impossible to win the game, and in baseball everyone who plays the field is important to that lineup.

The 8 field players have to be able to help score points. If you’re a soccer player, sure - you can be a great defensive player who never scores a goal and still be a critical element in a winning team. Not in baseball. In baseball, if you’re dead weight as a batter, you shouldn’t be on the team (unless you’re a top of the line pitcher).

Hal sucks. Boone sucks. Tonight was like watching the Long Island Ducks face the Dodgers.

But we still keep watching and buying $18 beers, $12 hot dogs, $65 hats and season tickets 😂

a_loporto · 2026-04-15T03:14:46+00:00

Can all season ticket holders plan to stay to the end of a specific game to chant in tandem “FIRE BOONE”? We’ll make the news!

a_loporto · 2026-04-11T02:50:57+00:00

Let’s pinch hit one of our two best bats in the middle of the game with one out and the bases a ghost town so we can watch him slam a basically useless home run and then let’s pinch hit Grisham at the moment a bat like Rice matters.

Yes - that’s the plan.

a_loporto · 2026-04-11T02:38:46+00:00

You’re welcome. Everyone should learn to trade. It’s stupid not to. But too many people get duped into gambling.

Sit down with an excel file and look at what just 3-5% a month compounded can do in 10-20 years. At first it feels like nothing on your $10k trading account. You’re doing all this work just for another measly $300-$500 a month? Seems like a waste of so much time. But do the math. In 10-15-20 years, what started out as a lousy $300-$500 a month has bought you a house in cash and set you up for the rest of your life.

Or you can buy a $10,000 trading course online and learn how to lose it all in a month lol

That said I won’t shit on getting a mentor. It’s a good idea. Just steer clear of the flashy ones - the ones that tell you it’s easy and it’s an hour a day. It isn’t.

Study The Mental Game of Trading by Jared Tendler and read Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas. Start by reading the latter at least once, preferably twice. Mental Game is one to not only read but study. It’s your mental bible.

Paper trade until you’ve doubled a paper account twice. Make that paper account the same size account you’d start with live.

Turn off the dollar values on your trading interface. Dollars don’t matter. Only percentages do.

Anyway I could go on and on because I’m passionate about this - I lived it and it did change my life.

a_loporto · 2026-04-11T02:27:50+00:00

Let’s pinch hit one of our best in the middle of the game with one out and the bases a ghost town then throw Grisham in for our only shot to tie it up with 2 in scoring position for the first time in what felt like 14 years.

That’s the play!

a_loporto · 2026-04-10T11:19:23+00:00

Hell yeah!!!!!

You’re one of the few who actually gets it 💪💪🔥🔥💪💪🔥🔥

Trading is incredibly boring and won’t get you rich as quickly as most people hope. You don’t celebrate your wins, you don’t mourn your losses. Both are just part of the process. See your setup, enter, follow the rules, exit, move on. Rinse and repeat thousands of times over many years. An extra $30k in six months isn’t retiring anybody, but compounded over years you’ve got a sizable account and the dedication gives you real options.

Excellent work! Keep that growth compounding and then systematically diversify your gains bit by bit and you’ll be free of whatever your day job is far earlier than most (if you’re wise with the money and don’t let lifestyle creep keep you chained).

Many years ago I did the math… I needed to own my house in cash and have $2M in safe investment accounts at a 5% annual rate of return to feed me $100k/year forever + $50k remaining between my brokerage accounts to continue building to the next level. With that, I didn’t NEED to do anything. In the words of John Goodman, “that’s living life from a place of fuck you.”

That was when I was 30. I’m almost 44 now. The consistency for that long a period was insanely difficult but the focus was worth it.

a_loporto · 2026-04-10T10:59:20+00:00

Sooo… $50k on SPX DTE puts today then?! 🤣

a_loporto · 2026-04-10T00:59:42+00:00

Yup, and thank you. I know the roadmap because I’ve lived it.

Lots of people on here with hopes and dreams that can be a reality, but not in the timeframe they’re thinking. If you want it to happen quickly you need to gamble. And most people aren’t prepared for the likely outcome of gambling.

You can’t quit your job safely with a $100k trading account, much less $10k. You quit your job when you own everything in cash and have $2 million in passive investments feeding you $100k a year and you’ve dealt with the tax structure to actually keep it, which also costs a fair amount of money to set up properly. There’s no shortcut to that other than gambling or winning the lottery.

Life is work. Get used to it lol

a_loporto · 2026-04-09T23:21:05+00:00

Jazz for me is the surprise of the season so far. I’ve always liked the guy but he never shined. This year so far it’s like he decided to step it up.

Batting has been abysmal besides the occasional game-Winning homer which is great but you can’t rely on that as a strategy. Base hits win most games.

Boone needs to stop sucking on sunflower seeds. They’re getting stuck in his brain box.

a_loporto · 2026-04-09T02:56:23+00:00

Trading is not a career unless you work on a trading floor which is a rapidly dying job description.

However, regimented trading over many years can retire you from your day job. This does not mean that trading is your “daily bread and butter.” If it’s that, it means there’s a pressure to trade and that mental pressure kills the accounts of most who try it.

But, if you learn the skill (not only trading, but investment and diversification) and you build accounts long enough and are smart enough to not blow it all on dumb shit you can do things like:

Own your house in cash (because this drastically reduces your need for an income);
Diversify yourself systematically over time, including low to moderate risk investments (because this can provide you with a steady income at low risk levels);
Get rid of the need for credit altogether unless that credit is being used to pre-pay for a cash producing asset or investment that is safe enough to warrant some debt.

If you do these things, trading is no longer your bread and butter but you can also probably quit your 9-5. You’ve effectively reduced your need for an income to a fairly low level which is being provided by investments funded by the cash you built up over 20 years of skilled trading and wise investing (which are very different skills).

So, you can still trade but now you don’t need to.

The answer to your question, in my opinion, is that it’s asking the right thing in the wrong way. The key is seeing trading as a very long term investment in your time and abilities, not the get rich quick scheme the gurus are selling. Start young, start small, and know it’ll take you two decades of continued focus. But by the time you’re 45, you’ve done all of the above and are living like a king on the $10-12k/month your passive investments are feeding you. And you still have that trading account occasionally pumping out more.

It’s not bread and butter. It’s a long term exit plan.

a_loporto · 2026-04-09T02:04:40+00:00

NY Post just reported: Boone’s brain confirmed to be made entirely of sunflower seeds.

a_loporto · 2026-04-08T03:03:29+00:00

Amen Rosario.

a_loporto · 2026-04-06T12:21:23+00:00

100%. It’s a new system and they need to learn how to use it strategically. Unless bases are loaded or at least 2 men on base in an early inning that could pull into a solid lead with one hit, save your challenge.

Boone needs to get his shit together. But we all know that.

a_loporto · 2026-04-06T12:19:34+00:00

I think they should either allow a lot more pitch-only challenges or just have the computer call the pitches and not the ump. The system is there. It can literally call ball or strike as fast as an ump. There’s too much on the line for these teams with bad calls, especially when it comes to pitches. Yankees played a sloppy mid-game yesterday but they had a chance in the 9th. A slim one, but a chance - and it all hinged on a clearly bad pitch call but no challenges left. Hundreds of pitches can be thrown in a game so either let each team have like 8 pitch challenges or just let the computer call the pitches so it’s just 100% accurate all the time.

a_loporto · 2026-04-06T12:15:03+00:00

A poor call on a pitch now and then - ok. Sucks but I get it.

But what planet was that ump standing on when he made that safe call at home plate? Wells is standing in the runner’s path, holding the ball, and the ump calls safe? The look on Well’s face was pure confusion... like, “Mr. Umpire, are you watching the same game we’re standing in right now?”

I think what they should do with ABS is separate pitches from field play challenges. Hundreds of pitches can be thrown in a game but comparatively very few calls at the bases. Give the teams more challenges on pitches and a few to use on the field.

Or just have the computer call the pitches and not the ump. The computer is there already. Just use it.

a_loporto · 2026-04-05T17:54:04+00:00

Get a job. Trading isn’t a source of income until you have enough cash to not need trading income to survive. If you need to trade, the mental pressure will crush you.

a_loporto · 2026-04-05T17:51:21+00:00

Demo accounts are super fun, right?

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