jerryskids

One more thing on this and then I'll stop. I played baseball and golf in HS, and one year of each in college. Baseball was freshman second semester through sophomore first semester. The summer between those two I had a job that got out at 2:30 every day and I went to the Y to work out every day. Did I realize the importance of flexibility and core rotation? No!!! I pushed a lot of weight up and down like the meatheads in the gym, and reported to fall practice with the best looking body of my life... but not really helpful for baseball. I thought of this as I watched Corbin Carroll hit a homer just now. He's not big. But he has that rotational torque. I wish I could go back and tell younger "suns out guns out" Jerry to mix in some yoga and flexibility.

Those are mine. Quit stalking me!

Didn't have to, chose to. I was an engineer at first, and have 5 patents. Then moved into sales because I had the rare ability to walk both lines. Later went back to engineering because it was an interesting opportunity. Then back to sales/account management. I would say again that your ilk had zero power in high tech, but you are incapable of comprehending it. Also, I just saw this commercial watching the DBacks/Reds game. Do you wear many hats, Spoonman?

I've said this when we had this discussion before. If he were in the finance industry, then yeah, he'd be a possible BMOC. But he's in corporate finance, which is basically saying that he couldn't hang with the big dogs, so he didn't even try to get on the porch. It seems important to him to think that he is important though, so maybe I'll take it easy on him.

Spoonman, I've got an EE degree (table stakes to be successful at what I did) as well as an MBA, so I understand all of your "complex" finance like cost accounting and resolving balance sheets, income statements, and cash flows. I guarantee I could do your job a hella lot easier than you could have done mine. Which is why I was paid so handsomely. I tried to explain why my job was way more involved than talking and golf, but you are too dense to get it. Go work on your plurals and come back after your break.

I've got a Mavrik which is default 9 but programmable to 10, which I generally play (I put it back to 9 for Bandon Dunes last year which is hella windy). Even with the 10 I hit it pretty low, which works well in (generally) hard AZ fairways but on a lush course, not so much. I should probably hit more of an 11 or even 12 like you. But @WhiteWonderjust gave me the secret to monster drives so I'm going to try that out first. Seriously.

I sent Ed $100 for this week and the PGA.

Bump to get Spoonman's response.

You've been calling me a cog and you don't even know what I primarily did? Nice attention to detail, ERP guy. I didn't sell plastic spoons, boyo. I sold SW and HW which cost an obscene amount of money each. It required a unique combination of (very specific) technical knowledge, the ability to communicate that info to engineers and engineering management/leadership, the ability to prospect and find new opportunities, and the ability to manage this all through fortune 500 accounts. Alot more than "talking." Although based on your posts, I could see why you would value people with basic grammar skills. I would concede that maybe the CFO at times made more than me, but not always, and nobody else in finance did. Sorry but it just wasn't valued in high tech. I think I'll call you "Spoonman" from now on. It's a term of endearment as I really like that song. Much like "boyo".

Yes. Also, based on his poor command of the English language, he apparently works for a company that refuses to put an "s" at the end of plural words. Example: BeachGuy: "Hey CEO, we should lay off 5 marketer and 3 spoon maker. No reason, I just had a good lift today and I'm flexing my greased, pumped muscle!"

What I did was highly specialized, and indeed only a handful of people in the world could sell what I primarily sold. Also I was a revenue generator, not a cost reducer like you. I assure you that no spreadsheet jockey up to and including the CFO would ever presume to name me specifically to be laid off. Best case, they could provide input regarding the profitability of certain product lines, which would be taken as input along with strategic importance, expected growth (that is, things that take technical knowledge beyond writing Excel macros). Keep those plastic spoons moving down the line, boyo!

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Thanks, I'll mess around with some of that. The ball is more or less off of my left heel, although I have moved it ever so slightly forward or back depending if I want more of a fade or draw respectively. Mostly I've been working on having quiet wrists that don't twist too much through the ball and cause Mr. Snappy (my biggest problem when I try to overhit it).

Any speed I generate is due to a pretty good understanding of physiology and how to maximize what I can out of my stiff body. I also did taekwondo when I was young, mostly because my family did it (it is about the worst martial art for an inflexible person, maybe ax capoeira (brazilian art) is worse. My main golfing partner never works out and has the worst diet I've ever seen in an adult (pure refined sugar), but he's got that core flexibility plus a few inches taller. The ball just jumps off his club.

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Back to your jelly long hitter: In HS in the early 80s I used a wooden 3 wood (yes I'm old) off the tee. My senior year I was the #2 player, and our #1 (with whom I played every match against the other teams 1 and 2) hit the ball a mile. I learned early that I wasn't going to match his distance, so I just hit my feeble tee shot, then got the ball near the green, then scrambled for par or bogey. My chipping was phenomenal as a result. Drives me nuts now, because chipping is the worst part of my game (I don't play much, which is why). But in my head, I feel like I'm good at it.

I'm not sure if I care about the name as much as the underlying reason, which is the admission of girls into the Scouts. Boys need developmental time playing with boys. The dynamics with girls is just different, even pre-puberty. I just listened to a very interesting podcast from Hidden Brain which talked about how parents and our society are stifling the development of children by helicopter parenting, constant correction, etc. Boys need some Lord of the Flies time to figure out how to resolve differences and generally get along. If interested: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/parents-keep-out/

I never hit it quite that far, but I miss the days when I was young and the designated bomber of the scramble. These days my drives are more like 230, maybe topping out at 250 if I hit some dry ground and get a good roll. My problem, even when young, is my body is remarkably inflexible. I just can't generate the core rotation/speed that a long hitter can.

I think the meaning to the chanter of "from the river to the sea" fits in with my description of the different personas at the protests.

Fair enough. I don't disagree with your philosophy here, although in 77 years that small minority of Palestinians hasn't accomplished bupkis, and I doubt they will now.

I've said before, but in my industry (high tech), finance is a cog, like HR or facilities. I worked for a company that tried putting a bean counter in charge once; it was an abject failure, in addition to our competitors laughing at our stupidity. In our industry, to run a company, you need to be a tech visionary. Now, if your company makes, say, plastic spoons, then yeah, I could see a finance person running the show. After all, the goal there is to find a child slave sweatshop that is fractions of a percent cheaper than the current child slave sweatshop. So if that's your gig, I could see why you think Finance is important.

Except for results: you won the last tourney, I came in dead last. But yeah, I'm high on Jaeger for the reasons you listed, plus he is a long driver. Usually I have a few guys in mind when my pick approaches, incase some of them get picked. But waiting for Dain, I wanted Jaeger and couldn't even focus on anyone else.

Non-responsive drivel. Otherwise, good post, good effort.

We fundamentally disagree as to whether or not calls for violent antifada to destroy Israel, or death to zionists, or signs pointing out Hamas' next target, are antisemitic, or slurs, or could be considered threats. For the second time today, I let myself get sucked into a semantic mud wrassling contest. Shame on me. For the record, and I've said this before in discussion with @Mark Davis: I think the majority of college kids are uninformed idiots enjoying the marxist issue du jour (the issue is not the issue, the issue is the revolution) because they are losers and like to associate with some group that they feel helps other losers. But, some aren't as innocent, the large number of non-students at these events are not innocent, and as per my link describing the invasion of the Columbia hall, they are clearly more organized than a group of college losers.

Eesh. And on this, let's call it "creative", interpretation of election interference, you are good with arresting the former POTUS and current candidate for one of the two major parties?