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1. Hopefully the LSU win was enough to earn the Lady Vols a 4-seed and regional host site.

2. Good for Drew Pember and UNCA. He got another year left? Could use a transfer lol
 
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Orange_Crush said:
Go find some good bulk second year horse manure compost and dress your garden soil with it.
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This could be a very bad idea. Horses don't break down 2,4-D herbicide which is often applied to horse pastures. Applying it to a garden can cause your squash and beans to show herbicide damage or kill them outright.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
We need to do the 1 bet a day challenge and see how far we can go.

Day 1: Pick 1 bet you are certain is going to hit. Make the bet. Say $10

Day 2: pick 1 bet you are certain will hit. Use the original $10 bet + the winnings from day 1. Say $20

Day 3: repeat. $40

Day 4: $80

Day 5: $160

Day 6: $320

Day 7: $640

Continue til you lose, til you're too scared to bet the next amount, til you're happy with the winnings. . . or the ultimate goal: continue until the sportsbook will no longer take a bet the size you're trying to place.

I've gotten to 7 days before, it was around $550.

*I'm confident that, between all the people on here, we can find 1 bet a day that we all agree will hit.
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The Martingale System meets VN
 
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RudyVol said:
No that's a dumb take. It's not the first bad Tennessee team I've rooted for and supported, per usual. I don't get why people are overreacting to me calling a spade a spade. Sure they beat some top teams and it's far from the worst team we've had but they're really not very good, and that's okay. They have no ballers and they are quite boring. We have Phillips who has great potential but will not spend enough time here to blossom into the great player he can become. I'll root for them to get hot in the 2 tournaments as I'm assuming everyone else will. Pretty different from last year with KC (which is the type of player this team is missing) and Admiral/Grant's year where I went into the SEC tournament expecting to win it or compete to win it.
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You're calling a top ranked team a "bad" team. That's the problem. Why do you have a fetish with being overly negative and pessimistic about the teams you love to root for?

Not being the best TN team in history doesn't make them bad. Not being "fun" to watch doesn't make them bad. But they're OBJECTIVELY a good team and one of the better teams we've ever had.

You don't have to have a "baller" to be a good team and having a "baller" doesn't make a team good. Anthony Edwards at Georgia played on a bad team for example. These Vols might not have the most raw talent but they essentially play at the extent of their ability through discipline, effort, and teamwork every game. They give the most out of themselves and define "Give Your All For Tennessee" and your decision is to sh*t on them literally all the time.
 
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SoilVol said:
This could be a very bad idea. Horses don't break down 2,4-D herbicide which is often applied to horse pastures. Applying it to a garden can cause your squash and beans to show herbicide damage or kill them outright.
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Good point. I should have added, know your horse **** supplier that knows their horse hay supplier.

Ours built amazing raised bed soil that has never failed us. Though, now we've built what we need to build and maintain with our own compost pile and our own composted goat barn bedding.
 
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engineerVOL said:
@OGbabyaviVol is a good source for horse manure quality, ya think?
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2,4 D is applied to horse pastures routinely. It is not toxic to the horse in the quantities used. I don’t have a definite answer to what @SoilVol is talking about. He would probably be correct since he knows about that more than me.
 
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My son played a baseball tournament today….. went 2-4 today and hit one over the center fielders head…. He does really good against the pitchers in the 50-59 range…. When he faces more elite pitchers in the 65-70 plus range like he did today… he struggles more…. Is there any drills that anyone has tried that help speed up the decision making/timing. Also…. Has anyone ever tried the virtual reality hitting on the oculus and did it help with decision making/timing?
 
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SoilVol said:
@OGbabyaviVol it's not a problem with cattle manure because of their digestive systems. Most gardeners only make that mistake once lol
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If someone wanted to play the long game on building amazing garden soil, they could put down about 16" deep of tree service wood chips (that include leafy branches in the chipping). Let that sit, allow sheet composting for a season or two, and then plant into it.

If you want to go no-till, top it with several inches as mulch every year. Prevent weeds, retains moisture and the constant sheet composting keeps a source of soil building action going on. (feeds the soil life as well.)
 
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volbeast33 said:
My son played a baseball tournament today….. went 2-4 today and hit one over the center fielders head…. He does really good against the pitchers in the 50-59 range…. When he faces more elite pitchers in the 65-70 plus range like he did today… he struggles more…. Is there any drills that anyone has tried that help speed up the decision making/timing. Also…. Has anyone ever tried the virtual reality hitting on the oculus and did it help with decision making/timing?
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Fence drill is meant to tighten up your swing and pull your arms through. It sped my swing up when I mastered it, but that’s not the primary objective. Worth a shot anyways
 
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volbeast33 said:
My son played a baseball tournament today….. went 2-4 today and hit one over the center fielders head…. He does really good against the pitchers in the 50-59 range…. When he faces more elite pitchers in the 65-70 plus range like he did today… he struggles more…. Is there any drills that anyone has tried that help speed up the decision making/timing. Also…. Has anyone ever tried the virtual reality hitting on the oculus and did it help with decision making/timing?
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I used to take players to the batting cages with pitching machines. Get him used to hitting faster pitches there. Once used to faster than what you usually get, it really slows down the process. Definitely useful with bunting practice too.
No experience with the VR, but seems really cool and potentially useful.
 
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volbeast33 said:
My son played a baseball tournament today….. went 2-4 today and hit one over the center fielders head…. He does really good against the pitchers in the 50-59 range…. When he faces more elite pitchers in the 65-70 plus range like he did today… he struggles more…. Is there any drills that anyone has tried that help speed up the decision making/timing. Also…. Has anyone ever tried the virtual reality hitting on the oculus and did it help with decision making/timing?
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Buy an L screen and pitch your best fastballs to him from 20-25 ft away.

Or pitching machine set to higher speeds from normal distance.
 
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volbeast33 said:
My son played a baseball tournament today….. went 2-4 today and hit one over the center fielders head…. He does really good against the pitchers in the 50-59 range…. When he faces more elite pitchers in the 65-70 plus range like he did today… he struggles more…. Is there any drills that anyone has tried that help speed up the decision making/timing. Also…. Has anyone ever tried the virtual reality hitting on the oculus and did it help with decision making/timing?
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Just reps of seeing that speed. It’s all perception and the more he sees it he’ll start hitting it. The biggest jump for me was high school pitching vs college pitching. Once you see it for awhile then it starts to look normal.
 
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Devo182 said:
The Martingale System meets VN
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Been around for a while. I read about a guy who went over $1mil in less than a month.

With several of us working on it, I believe we could come up with 1 pick a day that will win. I want Volnation to break Vegas, 😆.

Every 5th day you remove half the money and put in your bank roll. So if you're at $400 on day 5, store $200 and continue the process. On day 10 you store about half of $6,400. . . if you make it to day 15, you store around $50,000. Day 15 you have $50k to bet and about $55k in the bank.

I say 15, because the longest winning streak I've had was 17. I wasn't doubling the bet each time though, I was just betting standard units. I wish I were adding the the winnings, would've been a pretty good hit.
 
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volbeast33 said:
My son played a baseball tournament today….. went 2-4 today and hit one over the center fielders head…. He does really good against the pitchers in the 50-59 range…. When he faces more elite pitchers in the 65-70 plus range like he did today… he struggles more…. Is there any drills that anyone has tried that help speed up the decision making/timing. Also…. Has anyone ever tried the virtual reality hitting on the oculus and did it help with decision making/timing?
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Is getting loaded/in hitting position post delivery, some like my son didnt load until he identified strike or ball so he was late on faster pitching
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
I used to take players to the batting cages with pitching machines. Get him used to hitting faster pitches there. Once used to faster than what you usually get, it really slows down the process. Definitely useful with bunting practice too.
No experience with the VR, but seems really cool and potentially useful.
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we don’t have pitching machines close to that fast…. I have a facility that I rent whose pitching machine is around 50-54 mph…. I thought about moving him up closer to make it seem faster.
 
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Christian Lowe said:
Fence drill is meant to tighten up your swing and pull your arms through. It sped my swing up when I mastered it, but that’s not the primary objective. Worth a shot anyways
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I will try it…. His bast speed has improved a lot in the past 6 months but always working to improve it.
 
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