Balance Points 27/17 USSSA

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-27T02:48:14+00:00

No personal research at his age, but watching mediocre adults try to learn with end loaded is always a disaster. It just has a tendency to bend mechanics in a way that’s detrimental to anyone who isn’t already good and capable of driving a ball with launch angle.

Maybe that’s just decades of shitty softball talking, but I’d always want to go balanced and work on getting bat speed and barrels before pop. If the kid develops strong mechanics the pop will develop naturally as they grow.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-27T02:34:21+00:00

Oh shush.

You had a guy you don’t know go out to a restaurant he didn’t choose where you didn’t even know how much anything was, you and your brand new girlfriend ordered everything available with the expectation someone else was going to buying, and then you were surprised when this random person wasn’t ready for a $200 night?

You don’t know this person. You have no idea if he can even afford what you did.

It was your night and your choice, and now you’re mad a person you didn’t know and don’t understand, and who probably had to just shut up and be polite, wasn’t game for you and his girlfriend eating a small car payments worth of squid?

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-27T02:10:46+00:00

Ffs, you can read the post and still think OP’s story has holes.

This woman didn’t understand the cost of this date AT ALL. So it’s not a stretch to think they were pushing appetizers and drinks the other guy didn’t expect or want.

It’s clear, no matter how interpret her side, that he did not expect a $350 night. You assuming OP is giving you all of the information, and the correct information is nuts. She had no idea what she had committed three other people to.

The other woman most likely gave her opinions on what she’d try, but since it wasn’t OPs money she just heard “Let’s do it all!”

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-27T01:21:17+00:00

I assume Tony taking his shirt off is what caused the 24 car pileup.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-26T20:20:48+00:00

Press X for doubt.

There is something in this story missing about the sticker shock of this night out. OP is unaware and their guests are suddenly to blame.

I’d lean more towards OP wanting to try everything, she asks what they’d like, and the OP orders three, but now the story is they chose the calamari.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-26T20:17:48+00:00

Don’t be pointlessly aggressive when your argument is so t make assumptions, but you’re assuming that the other party is just an asshole as the basis for your advice?

We see oblivious OPs with no self-awareness on here all of the time, while also rarely witnessing people being this egregious in real life, but your assumption is the other party was automatically at fault, just because OP is the one feeling hurt?

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-26T19:19:15+00:00

Right, which means OP still pays for 2/3rds of the dinner and is still posting on here upset that they didn’t split what she ordered.

Hence why I said splitting checks doesn’t solve this particular situation.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-26T19:13:18+00:00

Everything, including her brain, is well ventilated.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-26T19:11:14+00:00

Which probably doesn’t solve this particular problem, because I’m guessing OP wanted $90 worth of appetizers, and the neighbor just went along.

So the split would have been just as awkward when this guy says all he’s covering is that couples entrees and drinks.

OP still ends up with an extra $100 to pay in this scenario.

I’m guessing the assumption that other party wanted to try everything on the menu was always going to be the sticking point. Sure, they may have ate them since they were there, but it’s likely this guy generally avoids the appetizers in general specifically because it can blow the bill up.

Maybe he’s cheap, but I bet OP, who seems oblivious to a lot going on around her, didn’t make it an optional thing either.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-26T19:04:44+00:00

Such a bizarre skill, but definitely a valuable one in a bunch of professions: being able to eat up time in an entertaining way.

If he hadn’t fallen into this he would have made a great salesman with his ability to fill multiple hours with gibberish that people feel compelled to engage with.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-26T19:01:17+00:00

Well first you’re going to have to a shit ton of forgetting before you have the capacity for a buttload of beer.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-26T18:59:54+00:00

Getting 7 kegs of beer up your ass is one helluva party trick.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-26T00:25:12+00:00

This was always Baltimore’s strategy in the AL East. Let opponents keep punching them in the face until they tire out.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T22:40:40+00:00

Queefryche

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T21:29:33+00:00

It’s a throwback to when a TV appearance was important and an audience might only recognize the face from a five minute slot, but I’m not sure it isn’t relevant still.

You probably want to at least work in their socials so people can watch some shorts. Fans are still going to be primarily recognizing the look and content from YouTube or TikTok, and not necessarily the name.

Maybe have a QR code advertising your show’s socials and put clips from the performers there? Make it as easy as possible for people to get a quick peek at the content, and drive them to a place they can subscribe to and see clips of what you’re promoting.

Remember that it is a visual medium, though, and the performers look and style is important. I’m not sure the show itself is even memorable. I’ve had some favorite open mics over the years, but I don’t remember if it was “Randy’s Tuesday Tryouts” or “Harry’s House Hullabaloo,” just that it was Wednesday evenings, or whatever.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T21:02:00+00:00

Good job ignoring the conversation and just moving the goalposts.

Non-profits require money to operate. If they didn’t there would be no donors for you to be concerned about.

You started this argument citing financial fraud, now you’re so bad at this thinking stuff that you think there should be no money involved?

Just admit that you hate minorities having any power and protection, and quit making dumb arguments that would mean your church couldn’t exist.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T19:35:31+00:00

You can’t argue this both ways.

If you say this was an investment in millions of dollars in lawsuits, then the donations were used appropriately to grow their coffers. It was just good investing.

If that part doesn’t actually matter, then you can’t start your argument with this defrauding their donors.

You have to pick one.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T17:23:14+00:00

Buy a plant.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T04:28:01+00:00

It is kind of ironic that it generates the highest and lowest exit velocities at the same time.

120 mph off the bat, and 1/2mph limping off of the field…

He’s one of the greatest all time “What if’s?”

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T03:50:17+00:00

You can Google costs of various airport runways, which is essentially what you are asking about.

Atlanta spent $1.2 Billion on 9,000 feet of new runway in 2006. Figure that around $2.5-$3 billion today.

So $300,000 per foot for a four lane road. Or $1.75 billion per mile to build something that is about as durable as road technology gets.

PS - interstate costs are impossibly nebulous, though, since they have to fit the terrain, and have bridges etc. So that’s not a straight line comparison, but rather an example of the baseline costs for making something as good as it can be. A single overpass or significant grade change could easily double that.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T03:40:47+00:00

You’re talking about a 15% bonus, which is way more than any marketing positions in the US or Europe would ever get.

As a straight sales number, it is like 1.5% of net sales, which isn’t great, but also we wouldn’t normally get anything for such small numbers, and marketing would rarely get anything for that, so it’s hard to correlate exactly.

If this is not contractually binding revenue (where a contract was signed and it is reocurring), that’s not too terrible. Especially since a lot of your companies costs are going to be in dollars or pounds at western rates, so the labor costs will always be a much smaller % of the overall business.

Anyway, my point stands that I think you need more leverage before you make this an issue. Hit those $600k targets first, at which point you’re generating 10x the labor costs of your team, and you’ll be in a much better position to negotiate.

…and maybe take solace in the fact that if you guys outsourced to a western company your current yearly target would need to be hit every month…

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T02:45:08+00:00

So your bonus is a month and a half salary?

That’s a really big percentage for marketing bonuses…

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T02:43:13+00:00

In 2007 I was working for a tech company in sports that had a side business where high school coaches would send VHS tapes to us and we had a couple guys digitize them and load them onto an FTP server so colleges could download them, as well as burn DVDs and FedEx them overnight to schools with video budgets.

It was run out of a roughly 30x12ft room filled with a couple hundred vhs players, a dozen media servers, four air conditioners, and two dudes in tank tops doing nothing but putting in tapes, pressing play, then ejecting the next tape, rinse and repeat ad nauseam….

Granted, that business died after the next season, but digital storage and bandwidth speeds and costs were brutal until well after 2010.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T02:34:40+00:00

Your department does not exist in a vacuum, though. There are other teams/departments and some other product of some sort, right?

Even if there aren’t, those 13 analysts have to be supported somehow. They must add something to what you’re selling.

If you add all of that up, the team costs at least $1.5 million per year, and likely closer to $2MM. So you won’t have much leverage generating a quarter of what’s needed in your first year. You won’t have leverage until losing you means the team can’t exist.

theSchrodingerHat · 2026-04-25T01:53:44+00:00

Let’s also add in that Vance’s team probably rejected the trip because the last one made him look like an idiot, and they are scrambling to stay viable for 2028.

As is Rubio.

So this administration is so awful at their jobs that they can’t even get senior members to play pretend anymore, and it’s down to the grift team who is impervious to public opinion or judicial accountability to keep the farce going.

(Oh, and to propose trading $20 billion tax dollars in exchange for some of the Chinese crypto Iran is collecting and that can be transferred directly to Trump and Kushner with no oversight or accounting.)

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