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Little League wants all your information
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#92Why do they "need" 3 proofs of residency?!
You occasionally hear about faked birth certificates being used to get over age players or foreigners (Cubans) on a team. There is enough money at stake for these kids at the national level for a few people to try it. Cheating is almost minigame inside of baseball at this point. I don’t know if requiring three forms of ID/residency is the right solution, but I at least understand the motivation. They are probably ope…
Why can't they check this at the national level?
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#93Atleast for emails, provide one like marketingcunts1984+forlittleleague@gmail.com. Junk emails will go to that and you will know which companies they are selling your email id to. The warm feeling from a little rubbing it in will be a bonus.
Having a cleanup script that strips the + in an email is the first thing they do.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m curious since you actually went through the effort to be a part of the org: why do we need to formalize everything? Why not just get kids together to play baseball? Why capital Little capital League? Why do we have to normalize towards an organizational system? Academically it all makes sense; our scientific truth must be rigorously vetted. This all just feels like busy work for no gain for most people. I really…
You absolutely can find recreational leagues that are less rigorous - although for safety reasons they'll still tend to be particular about ages. Baseball is a relatively dangerous sport if there's a massive imbalance. It's important that pitch speed, bat speed, reaction times, and overall mass scale up smoothly and roughly uniformly. The reason why it's so formalized beyond that is that travel ball at 11-12 years ol…
Why not cover the safety aspect with simple height and or weight ranges like boxing etc? That seems like it would work better and is much easier to check.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this position is being applied somewhat universally with no supporting data.
Paid social networks have failed to gain traction because most people don't want to pay $10 a year. People will give up their shopping privacy for extra discounts the the super market. People buy cheap TVs that send data on what they watch which is then sold. Plenty of examples.
> Paid social networks have failed to gain traction because most people don't want to pay $10 a year.
Is there an option where I get to pay $10 a year in already popular social networks and they guaranteed my privacy? Maybe then we could start demanding better quality.
> People will give up their shopping privacy for extra discounts the the super market.
Some will. Even then, they might buy some things in cash. They get to choose.
> People buy cheap TVs that send data on what they watch which is then sold.
I was not aware of that, is it informed in the tv packaging in a way a grandma can understand it?
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#96Oh hey, Hacker News! This is my post. I’m not strictly allergic to proving that I live in a certain place, so long as the evidence is securely deleted afterward. I’m very opposed to the idea that they can share all of those records with any of their partners or sponsors as they see fit. For example, “proof of residency 3” includes financial or medical records. Suppose that Large Corporation donates $1,000 to Little L…
Requiring three separate factors of proof sounds to me like a way for that organization to implicitly filter out "undesirable" kids who may not have the most stable home life.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is there any bureaucracy to Little League in the first place, though? Like why do we need to be doing any of this? > To sign kids up for our city’s Little League baseball program, you have to prove that they’re residents, which is reasonable. I don't really get that. What are we scared of here? People coming over the border to steal Little League coaching for their children? Is that a major concern somewhere?
> What are we scared of here? People coming over the border to steal Little League coaching for their children? Yes, exactly this. It happens. It really does. In all sports. And not just parents seeking out "good" teams and coaches, but coaches recruiting kids to play. It gets to the point where parents put their kids in online schools, or private schools operated by a travel sports organization, so that they can get…
But what’s the problem? Child illegitimately getting to play sport doesn’t seem like the crime of the century to me?
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#98You can thank Danny Almonte for that
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm just starting to forge documents (...) The isn't even criminal to do because I'm not defrauding anyone Some might see sending forged documents as fraud; you'd intentionally deceive an organisation for personal gain, i.e. more privacy. (TINLA) Just to be clear, I also want more privacy; at the same time I'd prefer a different approach, e.g. shaming plus boycotting.
More practically, if you get caught then your kid probably gets banned from the league. This might be pretty hard to explain to a younger child in terms that would make them appreciate that you're doing it for the right reasons.
Do you think little league has the investigative powers of the FBI or something?
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
You absolutely can find recreational leagues that are less rigorous - although for safety reasons they'll still tend to be particular about ages. Baseball is a relatively dangerous sport if there's a massive imbalance. It's important that pitch speed, bat speed, reaction times, and overall mass scale up smoothly and roughly uniformly. The reason why it's so formalized beyond that is that travel ball at 11-12 years ol…
Why not cover the safety aspect with simple height and or weight ranges like boxing etc? That seems like it would work better and is much easier to check.
Because thats less monetizable.