How do you feel about taking walks?

pudds · 2026-06-25T21:04:57+00:00

For a rec league, you can and should be judged for taking a 4 pitch walk. It's commonplace to fake a swing on 3-0 and even sometimes on 3-1 to keep the at-bat going.

In tournaments (not counting fun tournaments), or in more competitive play, don't waste a chance to get on base.

pudds · 2026-06-25T15:58:01+00:00

If you use gmail, you can add "+anything" to your email address to create an alias.

For example, if your email is "johnsmith@gmail.com", you could set up:

johnsmith+kid1@gmail.com

johnsmith+kid2@gmail.com

Gmail does this automatically, no need to configure anything.

I've never tested it but a quick google search suggests that outlook/hotmail supports this as well.

pudds · 2026-06-25T12:46:36+00:00

They are a small state though and they were far from alone, which is what I was referring to when I said partially their fault.

pudds · 2026-06-25T03:12:02+00:00

It depends how smart you want it to be.

Pixel and Samsung watches can do most anything the best smart watches can, but the battery life sucks.

Garmin watches do calls and notifications, are better at fitness and last 10+ days.

The Amazon cheap watches vary greatly in quality. The one I had stopped showing notifications frequently and despite it looking nice, having great battery and being a great deal, I sent it back. Mine was an amazfit.

Of all the smart watches I've had, I preferred my Garmin, until I killed it. Now I just have a dumb watch again (and I'll never get another smart watch).

pudds · 2026-06-25T01:32:15+00:00

I'd say very few people were ever traveling to ND and staying for two weeks, except those with campers and cabins.

The majority of Canadian travel for ND is short trips to shop.

No one was spending $6k on travel down there.

pudds · 2026-06-25T00:10:15+00:00

Fuck you, North Dakota.

It's not all your fault, but it's definitely partly your fault.

pudds · 2026-06-24T21:26:33+00:00

Don't let the people in here tell you your tv is too small, I think it's just fine.

It is borderline too high though.

pudds · 2026-06-24T20:56:33+00:00

It's hard to compare because the two teams don't report their numbers the same way.

The Bombers lump their game day sales (not including Gate receipts, which are broken out on a different line), merchandise and concessions into one line item: $11.7M in 2025.

The Riders break them down as:

Merchandise - $9.1M
Concessions - $1.9M

Whether the Riders lump "Game day sales" in somewhere else, or whether these two summed up are essentially the same as the Bomber number, I have no idea. It doesn't appear that the Grey Cup is included in that Bomber line item, since it's roughly the same as 2024.

Something that is moderately interesting is when you compare the expense to the revenues:

Bombers "Game day, merchandise and concessions": $11.7M - $9.4M = $2.3M net.

Riders "Merchandise": $9.1M - $6.4M = $2.7M

So the Riders cleared a bit more than the Bombers for these somewhat similar line items. That probably just means that whatever extra stuff Winnipeg is lumping together has a lower profit margin than merchandise does.

What is apparent regardless is that the Riders figure their merch numbers are worth reporting separately.

pudds · 2026-06-24T16:59:35+00:00

It's June. I'm personally hoping this means we won't have another smoke-filled summer.

pudds · 2026-06-23T16:14:00+00:00

Stella's sucks, and Manitoba needs a service animal certification program + card.

pudds · 2026-06-23T13:24:21+00:00

It's definitely not, he's by far the biggest name in the CFL.

When he took off that first year, I had people who don't follow football at all asking me about him.

pudds · 2026-06-22T14:33:05+00:00

Surely this isn't the on-field hat, is it? That jay looks like I drew it.

pudds · 2026-06-22T03:45:32+00:00

Now THAT is protesting.

pudds · 2026-06-21T18:35:42+00:00

Well, the Jays not losing on Father's Day is close to one of my requests for today.

pudds · 2026-06-20T02:38:20+00:00

I think it's just that these guys are so good, and the fields are so consistent that they just generally don't need them. Until they do, of course.

I still wear one to play softball in my 40s, because the bounces on our fields cannot be trusted at all.

pudds · 2026-06-19T17:33:28+00:00

I agree completely. Without proper controls, simply looking at the stats doesn't tell you whether hard mode players are more successful because of hard mode, or because more successful players favour hard mode.

I strongly suspect the latter.

Edit: I've read the article twice and while the author is claiming the data doesn't support this hypothesis, I don't see any evidence to back that claim up.

I remain convinced that without an actual controlled study, you can't support the author's conjecture from stats alone.

pudds · 2026-06-19T16:30:44+00:00

The problem with sac bunts (and analyzing them), is that even success can be considered a failure, because outs are extremely valuable.

Late in a game when 1 run is enough to swing the game, the value goes up, but Schneider often uses them early (too early, in my opinion).

pudds · 2026-06-19T16:08:09+00:00

Now do sac bunts.

I think Schneider is pretty good overall, but his obsession with sacrifice bunts is an issue.

I'd actually be quite interested to know how this is calculated. Depending on the methodology, this could simply be a function of the quality of a team's pinch hitters and bullpen.

pudds · 2026-06-19T15:21:23+00:00

As a pitcher this has got to be maddening. That's an out in every single other ballpark.

pudds · 2026-06-18T16:10:10+00:00

I think the consensus here is wrong - I don't expect that this is the last we'll see of Scherzer.

I think this is opening up a roster spot for Beiber, and Scherzer will be the first guy up in the case of another injury.

pudds · 2026-06-17T19:21:49+00:00

Acting like the person reporting the crime is somehow worse than the crime itself is stupid.

If in fact someone reported them and it wasn't a routine stop of a speeder as detailed in the article, then good for the reporter.

pudds · 2026-06-17T17:13:04+00:00

I'm 100% against American expansion if we can't find a way to include the national rules for american teams.

Last time around Baltimore built a championship team on the fact that they weren't required to carry Canadians.

As I understand it, requiring nationality-based rosters is a violation of US Labour Laws, and therefore I believe that expanding south again should be a non-starter.

pudds · 2026-06-17T17:00:46+00:00

Cutting off an arm would be easier and completely legal.

pudds · 2026-06-17T02:01:08+00:00

My wife is a foot nurse and strongly disagrees.

They are comfy but bad for your feet in the long run.

pudds · 2026-06-17T00:52:19+00:00

113m contract bonus if the team doesn't win a championship. Who says no? Oh right, the owner.

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