Hot Carl

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How many ships does troy have

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1,000 foreigners

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If we can flip Brewster, we could have a DL with him, Lamar, Richard Anderson, Duece Geralds, Trenton Henderson, and Jaiden Bryant along with anyone else we can land.

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It’s 2026. Being able to afford all these every year seems unlikely.

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Most people don't realize the insane amount of talent required to make a Major League roster. The absolute worst player on the absolute worst team is still a baseball phenom.

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This is true. And a lot of people don’t realize just how many people play baseball. So other factors come into play. There are plenty of guys with the talent to make a big league roster who never sniff it. There’s work ethic, ability to adapt to different social settings, different cultures, different coaching, etc…ability to overcome adversity, determination, etc…but 1 that a lot of people really underestimate is luck.

And you can combine that with timing. What club takes you, how good their overall system is at development, how many people they have in their system ahead of you that play your position/positions.

Take Milam, the organization that drafts him is probably going to always value him more than most because we’ll, 1) they’ve already invested in him with draft capital, money, time/development, but more importantly, 2) they get to see him play everyday. They will see him do things that don’t show up in the box score or in analytics. Call it what Skip did—“How to Win Awareness.”

He does little things that are valuable that you have to watch him every day to really understand just how valuable it is over the long term. I don’t think any of us think he’s just gonna go out and crush minor league pitching. Maybe. But chances are he’s always going to have more perceived value to the club that takes him, meaning he’s likely to not ever have a whole lot of trade value. So his best chance of making it to the bigs is going to be with the club that drafts him. But if they have guys better than him blocking him, and they stay relatively healthy, he might age out before he ever makes it. His organization would rather have him as an insurance policy instead of just giving him away for a bag of balls. And they may wind up never having to cash in that policy.

Which brings me back to injury luck. It might be the most important factor of all. Not just injury to the particular player, but to the guys above him that play his positions. Some guys just need an opportunity and will run with it, but unfortunately, might not ever get it.

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and not allow any coach who is employed by a school on August 1st accept a position at another school until after they have played their last game in that season

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:lol:

Mackenzie from “The Crash”

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I wonder if Cuban is less willing to give as much money now that he's seen Indiana win a championship. Been there, done that type of thing.

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I was just about to post something similar. People have mentioned “booster fatigue,” but not really in this context. And it may not happen immediately for Cuban and Indiana, but other boosters and schools who are still so hungry to win, might not be so willing to annually write those checks after they’ve scratched that itch.

Miami, A&M, Texas Tech, etc….schools that have never won or haven’t won in a while—once that itch is scratched—either once or a couple of times, does that particular type of “been there, done that” type of booster fatigue set in?

There are just so many reasons why the current model is not sustainable, so many that should already be obvious to everybody, so many unintended consequences that some of us can see coming, but even more that we can’t.

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Might he take a similar, if not downright identical, path to the “show” as our very own Mr. Austin Nola did? His glove, much like Nola, are downright incredible, some might even say, myself included, elite! But he may lack in another aspects the “bigs” wants to see i.e baserunning and hitting ability. I do wonder if Milam is itching at giving Nola a call on the difficulty, both physical and mental, of swapping over to catcher this late in his baseball career. Could shoot Mr. Milam up the leaderboards on draft boards everywhere if he publicly announced a switch!

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There’s no way this post is real.

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cbree88

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You are such a shite fricking poster. :lol:

Post a bunch of retarded post and run threads where you make a ridiculous OP and never come back to defend it. What a bizarre thing to get off on. There’s worse on here, though, I guess.

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Social Media is horrible for young girls self esteem. That’s where a mother comes into play.

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That’s part of the insidiousness. They started with the mothers. And they bought it. How’s a 40-year-old mother gonna spend 30 minutes on her nightly skincare routine and then go talk to her 12-year-old about self esteem and not to get caught up in all that on TikTok. Right before she goes and plugs back into….TikTok.

It’s hard to blame women, though, no matter their generation. They were—and continue to be—specifically targeted.

It’s social media that is selling this to women. Not just figuratively selling as in “you need to look like this,” but literal selling products. Women have always been the biggest consumers, been more susceptible to being influenced by current trends, but now that they’re making their own money and aren’t as financially dependent on men, they have all this extra money to spend on self love/self care bullshite.

Not that there’s not a healthy place for self care, but spending $1,000/month on fillers, skin care, travel, etc…when you make $50,000/year is not that healthy sweet spot. But what’s terrifying, is just how much younger these women/girls are getting into this.

I got TikTok about a year ago, because I’ve got a couple of buddies who send me a bunch of music stuff. Mainly videos of bands/djs we all used to like. But I’ve never made a post, probably have spent less than an hour on it total, and really have no idea how to navigate it, I don’t know what I’m even seeing when I open it.

But a few months ago I got sent a video and watched it. Then I checked to see how many friends I have—it’s less than 10. And underneath it was giving me all these friend suggestions. However their algorithm suggests them. But I saw an account belonging to my 12-year-old daughter’s friend. Maybe her number is in my contacts or her mom’s or dad’s, I don’t know how it connected us. My daughter doesn’t have one. At least not that I’m aware of.

Anyway, I clicked on this 12/13-year-old girls account. She didn’t have many posts, but was following like 500 people. That seemed unusually high for me, so I clicked on who she was following. And there was some stuff on there—not completely inappropriate, but not people I’d want my daughter following. Anyway, not my kid, not my business.

But I was shocked by just how many people/businesses she was following that were all about skin care and other self care nonsense that a 12/13 year old girl has no business worrying about at that age.

They are targeting them younger and younger. There are 10 year olds out there that have their own morning and bedtime skin care routines. It’s insane. I get a 30/40 something year old wanting to take care of her skin. But a 12-year-old? And this is only to normalize this shite, so they can gradually introduce and Trojan Horse more and more dangerous and insidious shite.

These younger generations of young girls, hell, and boys, are fricked. Especially when the parents that should be monitoring them and what they are watching are too busy doing the same shite themselves. Hard for a mom to come discipline their daughter on their social media usage, when they’ve just spent the past 4 hours glued to it themselves.

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I agree. Especially with another year of leverage and development. Some jump to draft because of leverage when they are solid players but then drown in the minors. Who knows how many may have made it all the way with an extra year of development

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I think you’re asking how knows how many players would have made it all the way to the majors with an extra year of development in college, no? I would say not that many more—probably even less than already do—because a year of development in the minors >>> extra year in college. And age matters. They are likely to be given up on the older they are.

There are other factors like luck—injury luck, luck on which organization drafts you and their current situations, etc…If they pass the 5 for 5, though, make no mistake, if guys like Milam
come back for that 4th year, it’s gonna be for the NIL $, not because it will help prepare them to get to the bigs more than starting their pro careers.