dragontangram88

dragontangram88 , 2 months ago

Yeah, if you’re in SLC, just give up on walking anywhere and take the Blue line, or the Green line. Every place you need to go to is a little too far to walk anyway.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

It might have been real leather. It smelled like it, as it burned. The online sites I read said nothing of turning off the oven. Everyone who swore by this said to put it in there at 350F for fifteen minutes.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

It softens it. I put olive oil on it first, as many sites suggested, and other players have suggested. I used to break in my gloves with throwing after oiling them. I would also leave my gloves in a hot car to soften in the heat, with a ball inside of them. I am so mad right now. Today was ruined. I didn’t get to watch Easter mass online because of time zones, I missed watching (in person) my kids open Easter baskets I made, and then my damn glove caught fire. God, why?

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

No, I smelled it burning. It still had 7 minuets to go.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

It does look like a toaster oven did it, but it was just a regular oven. I set it on the bars and it actually began melting between them.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b44159cd-2f03-4922-8d24-f68a8135a6cf.jpeg

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

You’re right, and I usually do that to break in a glove. I lost my old glove and I had to break this one in quickly. I tried a new method and it failed.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Because I am used to my soft, leather, Mizuno, Fastpitch glove that I had for years, and now it’s gone. I was left looking at this cheap, new, Franklin glove, wondering how I was going to break it in by next week.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

I have never used TikTok. In fact, I have refused to ever use TikTok, SnapChat, and Twitter (despite starting an account to enter some contest for The Walking Dead years ago). I just feel like some platforms attract certain personality types that I try to avoid when I’m relaxing.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

No, I preheated it. It was at 350F before I placed it in the oven. Maybe the glove is just cheap. Maybe the method works on 100% leather gloves.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, I scored 97th percentile on the ASVAB, had a 4.2 GPA leaving high school, and had a federal scholarship in a STEM field. Right now I’m listening to an elderly relative call me stupid for trying to quickly condition this glove in the oven. An elderly relative that failed all of his grade school math courses, beat me as a child, and did worse things to me as a child/teen (that I can’t even say online). Thanks for the upvote.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

No, I have plenty of common sense. You don’t have any manners. Plenty of people have successfully used the oven trick to quickly soften a new glove. I’m sure if it had been 100% leather, it would have softened and not burned. The idiotic move was buying a cheap glove that was probably vinyl, and probably produced in China.

Here is an ESPN article where a MLB player suggests using the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. He also suggests a different amount of time and using shaving cream, instead of oil. Eco sports has an online article that suggests the method I used.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=5173365#

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

I’m not bragging. I’m just trying to verify that I’m not some idiot while my relative treats me like crap for burning a cheap glove. Everyone always thinks I’m bragging. You should hear the way “dad” discusses me. No one brags on me, so trust me, I never learned to brag.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

Already been evaluated. Not ADHD. It wasn’t an impulse decisions. Major league players advise using the oven method, and even the microwave:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=5173365

I also don’t drink beer.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

It’s tempting. I feel the same way. Legally, though, it would make my day if the sheriff’s department would just bring cadaver dogs to his house and have them sniff along the north west side of the house. That’s all it would take, and then he’d be exposed for so much past abuse. I don’t even want to share all of the details until they dig and find the evidence. I’ve been angry, I’ve been sad, I’ve been just void of any feeling towards him; all of this over the course of 35 years. I they would just dig after having cadaver dogs sniff this place, I wouldn’t even need words to explain all of the past abuse. I would be financially screwed over and in need of new housing arrangements. It would probably bankrupt me in legal fees to explain all of what has happened. Despite all of this, it would be worth it.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

That’s not a bad idea. I usually just put my glove in a hot car during the summer, but I didn’t have a chance to order a new glove last summer.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

No. I’ve been evaluated and I was not diagnosed with autism.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

Oh, I told them. I filed an online report. I also filed a federal tip online.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

Well I didn’t see a red, plastic, internal thermometer pop out, like you would see on a turkey. It made for one surprising Easter roast.

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

That really burns me, no pun intended. They knew 15 minutes would char my glove.

dragontangram88 OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, I followed advice that was on a sports website, as well as stated in an ESPN interview. I guess you think you’re above everyone else to the point where you can judge someone’s actions as stupid. If you had pretty good stats in school, that most likely would include your SAT, ACT, and maybe an ASVAB. If you scored well on those tests, you aren’t of average intelligence. It’s the “cool” trend to snub academia, and it’s getting on my nerves. When adults shrug off academic success and even snub it, the next generation views it as unimportant. They even see it as “uncool” to be academically successful. All of those posts containing store front signs that say, “closed because we can’t take cards and our employees don’t know enough math to make change”, aren’t really a joke. It’s sad. Yeah, go ahead and put me down. I hear degrading comments every day. If stating my achievements bothers you, then it says more about you than it does about me.

Here is one of many websites that promoted the process I used.
https://ecosports.com/blogs/vegan-athletes/how-to-break-in-a-baseball-glove

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

The bread knife had to be about 20 years old! Thats what got me. I expected it to be dull, so I gave it some extra force as it moved through the bread. I also expected the bread loaf to be a little stale, since it was on special for $1.00. Sharp knife and soft loaf, and now here I am with a cut finger! Fooled me!

dragontangram88 OP , 2 months ago

Wow, I’m impressed your school trusted you all with plastic knives. I’m from California and they never trusted any of us with any sharp objects in grade school. They gave one girl a seam ripper in home economics and she stabbed another girl for calling her a b__ch. They barely trusted everyone with plastic sporks after that. What grade science class let you use microscopes? Thats really cool! We didn’t get to use microscopes until high school.

dragontangram88 , 2 months ago

Although, neutering a cat can stop the territorial urination.

dragontangram88 , 2 months ago

I wouldn’t be opposed to a device that blocked all social media, but was filled with educational, and age appropriate, apps for a child. I don’t think playing Math Blaster ruined my childhood. Super Mario Brothers didn’t give me any life skills, other than improving hand-eye coordination. Neither one ruined my life, though.

dragontangram88 , 2 months ago

She forgot to mention the thousands of homeless that die on the street because they don’t have access to public services. If you think America is the only first world country with that problem, travel to places like Britain, Ireland, and Scotland. You can watch the homeless freeze to death in the winter, as they sleep on the street. Nothing will make you feel more guilty than walking through a big city, while it’s snowing, and watching some homeless person shivering on the side of an icy bridge, while everyone just walks on by them. There are no public bathrooms, no free cups of water at most eateries, no places to shower for free, and they’re just expected to freeze to death.

dragontangram88 , 2 months ago

Wait until she hears the part about Jimmy Page dating that 14 year old fan girl. Yuck. I really like their music, but that was pretty bad.