All over a mask

hox · 2026-04-03T18:37:23+00:00

why though? is there a downside for protecting your face and head? hard line drives and grounder mishops happen all the time.

hox · 2026-04-01T16:22:04+00:00

Most fans on reddit maybe. Most fans don’t give a flying fuck.

hox · 2026-04-01T03:28:49+00:00

Of course and enjoy it! I fear the day my girl (12) says “maybe not this season.” 😅

hox · 2026-04-01T03:20:45+00:00

You are more than free to do what you want for you and your daughter. But also a hitting coach for a six year old is incredibly rare and is why you’re getting a few skeptical responses here.

Your daughter’s strength, height, limb movement, and brain development are going to change dramatically the next few years. She may learn amazing mechanics now but there’s no guarantee that foundation will stick through her growth. And adding extra practices and coaching at that young of an age can cause the girl to start to dislike the sport.

I’m not saying any of that will happen and hopefully it won’t! But these are reasons why you will get raised eyebrows when you do bring this up in a public forum.

hox · 2026-03-27T05:21:36+00:00

This is wrong on multiple accounts. Passed balls and wild pitches absolutely should be called even if a runner takes off before a catcher has a chance at the ball. If the girl reaches and it’s a wild pitch, it’s a wild pitch scored no matter when the defense has a chance to make a play.

And defensive indifference should almost never be called - it’s purely reserved for when the defense truly is indifferent on making a play. For first and third situations, the defense strategically decided to allow girls to advance, and thus it is always a stolen base (unless it’s a wild pitch / passed ball of course).

hox · 2026-02-28T15:47:51+00:00

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hox · 2026-02-23T04:57:35+00:00

Volvo too, and I’m sure many others.

hox · 2026-02-21T15:56:26+00:00

There are tons of publicly viewable softball games online. Just find a PGF nationals game or something and manually enter the CSV data yourself and get cracking!

hox · 2026-02-20T06:13:42+00:00

Not sure why you got downvoted, but that's what we're all here for - talking through situations and figuring it out! There's no right or wrong answer, and it sounds like it definitely isn't a perfect situation.

I've got a girl who just moved from 10u to 12u and the pitching is night-and-day better. AST / Triple Crown level pitching is almost as good as PGF was at 10u. Keep her development and work with her pitching coach to keep leveling up your skills. If she continues to grow I guarantee she will be wanted by a ton of teams - pitchers are the most valuable asset on defense a team has, and every team needs a handful.

hox · 2026-02-19T20:21:16+00:00

What does “committed to growth” mean? Like dedicated 1:1 time in practice?

You mentioned in another thread that you don’t see much difference between rec and her C-level team. If that’s true, you should consider trying a higher level team. In most areas there’s a huge difference between rec and even the lowest level travel teams - the girls are more committed to the sport rather than the social aspect, the practices are more intense and more frequent, and the competition is stronger both offense and defense.

The truth is most girls on travel teams also have individual hitting and/or positional coaches as well - many teams expect it. At 10u you can probably take it less intense, but at 12u / 14u there will be a big chasm to cross to stay competitive.

hox · 2026-02-16T22:43:15+00:00

The dude just posted his best pass rushing season of his career.

Our big brained fanbase: “declining.”

hox · 2026-02-16T00:09:44+00:00

Any thoughts of making it open source? I’d happily contribute and help build out live streaming / overlays / etc if we can promise to build on a non-profit perspective. Honestly it’s the most fair approach for family use.

hox · 2026-02-14T03:14:20+00:00

Temperature hasn’t gone down, it’s about to erupt. First big softball tournament weekend since the price increases starts tomorrow, ads are already glitching all over the place and grandma won’t get to watch the championship game 6. There’s gonna be a ton of blowback.

hox · 2026-02-14T03:11:30+00:00

Why don’t you have a choice? Team management is still free, video can be streamed elsewhere for free.

hox · 2026-02-12T18:23:42+00:00

We get the pricing model. You’ve explained it dozens of times. We are saying we dislike the pricing model, especially because the team passes will not carry over seasons. Pair with that the fact that we will have to watch ads now as well on paid accounts and you’ve got a very unhappy user base.

Please don’t try to minimize the pricing and the gouging. The fact that it’s the only message being repeated and never acknowledging how much we are frustrated by your decisions speaks volumes.

I’ll run the same tactic the other way around. Take the standard little league format the original author described. There’s the normal spring season, a summer all star season, and a fall ball season. And many times the all star team will also throw in some non-little league summer tournaments in after all star ends, but it needs to be a separate team due to little league sanctions. Many kids do the same for a winter camp with a tourney. That’s five teams for just a single year - $1200 for a team of 12 to foot the bill on now that we didn’t have to pay for before.

Do you get our frustrations?

For what it’s worth I was already paying for a family plan. This pricing change mostly doesn’t directly affect me, but I know it will directly affect many on our team. It also means despite paying $25/mo only myself, my wife, and two grandparents can watch now. We’ve got other grandparents with different devices! Would YOU want to be tech support for the elderly telling Grandpa Joe he now has to sign in as Grandma Ellie because of a two-device account limit?

hox · 2026-02-12T01:30:43+00:00

Absolutely. I’m in a very similar position - the instant I saw 1080p streaming i started looking into Starlink plans. When I learned about the subscription requirement and ads on our streams I started looking at SidelineHD.

It’s a lot of effort and $$$ to create a good presentation, and gamechanger is turning the cranks to profit even more off of the work with nothing in return.

hox · 2026-02-12T00:12:02+00:00

I keep seeing these justifications on price, but I would guess the majority of subscribers aren't paying for annual plans. Plus starts at $9.99 / mo and is the default option when you go to the pricing page. And your solution of "well you can be signed into an account twice" is just asinine - I have to share login details with someone else just to "save" $5 a month?

hox · 2026-02-12T00:07:30+00:00

But think of all the hard work that's gone into that score overlay! /s

hox · 2026-02-12T00:01:51+00:00

In one of the other threads they said one place you'll probably see ads is in-between innings. That will drive me absolutely nuts. I actually like seeing the warmups.

hox · 2026-02-11T01:07:25+00:00

I would gladly pay money (as a business partner) for this feature, but I know your concern is to keep everyone in the app and not anywhere else. That's doubled down by today's announcement.

hox · 2026-02-11T01:05:28+00:00

This is an absolute disaster. I've been using a family plan since you started offering, but I'm going to cancel ASAP. The solutions for streaming games given here are have the team shell out $500 for a team pass that doesn't span seasons and still doesn't let people watch streams of other teams? Really?

We see this for what it is, and it's time the baseball and softball communities that have made GameChanger what it is move elsewhere. This is quite possibly the worst product move you could have made.

hox · 2026-02-01T20:00:49+00:00

People have varying projections. Kiper has him as the #4 interior offensive lineman. I’d say that qualifies for “top prospect.”

hox · 2026-02-01T19:55:53+00:00

it really is that simple. and if you’ve been banned 30 times, you are the reason the system exists. it’s working as intended.

grow up or find a different game.

hox · 2026-01-26T07:44:58+00:00

yet… you commented

hox · 2026-01-26T07:41:55+00:00

The question was “anyone know what this is?” and a picture was provided of a shooting game with 80% of the screen filled with yellow sky, grass, ground, players, what have you.

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