Life Hacks, Torpedo Bats and Final Four Locks

I am glad today is April 2nd, or this Diary would’ve been littered with horrific April Fools’ jokes. Kinda like this absolutely hilarious Tweet from Tiger Woods claiming his Achilles is healed 🤣

But it’s a day late so I will spare you… Let’s get into it!

One Big (Short but Important) Thing

Prioritize things in your life.

TLDR here even though this is the shortest diary message of all time: Don’t focus on s*** that doesn’t matter, and more time into things that do.

If you feel like you’re overwhelmed with tasks, responsibilities or whatever it may be, literally go open a notebook/Word Doc and make an actual list of things starting at the top of what is most important to least important.

I guarantee that the items at the bottom of that lists are probably things you can cross off.

Just completely eliminate them from your life.

If you make a list and maybe those things at the bottom look like non-negotiables to get done in your life, just remember they are still at the bottom of your list, and you should be spending less time on it than whatever you wrote and sits at the top of the list.

If you’re having a hard time thinking of a list even to start with, just think about what you do every single day from when you wake up until you go to sleep and list everything out.

OR you can do it with different categories of your life such as just work things vs. friends vs. whatever the hell you got going on!

BUT GET RID OF THE STUFF THAT ISN’T IMPORTANT TO YOU!

And put more of an effort into the things that make a difference in your life.

There’s your philosophy lesson for the day.

Favorite Thing(s) I Saw on the Internet This Week

The New York Yankees have reinvented the game of baseball by utilizing the new “Torpedo Bat”.

Full story here, but the short of it is that their front office realized they should move more of the wood from the end of the bat to the “label”, aka center of the bat.

The Yankees dude who invented this bat has a PHD from MIT.

He is PRIORITIZING home runs and winning baseball games. Smart man.

The shape is very odd, but in the Yankees first game using it, they had 7 HRs and have been on absolute fire since.

Top one is a Torpedo vs. a normal bat on bottom. The Torpedo is completely legal by MLB specs (as of now).

Reds’ superstar Elly De La Cruz picked one up and had the best batting day of his career…

Should these bats be banned? NO.

This is the best thing that’s happened to baseball since steroids. Give me all of the home runs!

This dude only betting on players to hit HRs with a Torpedo Bat is an absolute genius.

Moving on - Am I allowed to say one of the favorite things I saw on the internet was something I posted? Yes I am, because this is MY diary and house rules.

I reposted some clips from my trip with Phillip Anderson, a hospital security guard who is a complete savage, to UFC Miami a few years back when Dana White gifted him and his wife a VIP experience of a lifetime:

Full YouTube Vlog of the trip:

The Polls

💰 Betting Corner

I know this may be an unpopular opinion, BUT I like the no upsets thing in March Madness this year.

Why? Because it’s made the later matchups a lot stronger. I always hate seeing the double-digit seeds get annihilated in the Elite 8. This Final Four features four of the top 10 Kenpom teams of all-time… grab the popcorn 🍿🍿

Lock of the week: Florida / Auburn UNDER 159.5 total points

Follow me on X (Twitter) for more Final Four plays.

FWIW my Women’s Bracket is insanely good. Went 4/4 on Final Four and have a top 8,000 bracket in the world…

Have a jam-packed weekend in Miami coming up. Checking out LIV Tour event and Tortuga Festival headlined by Luke Combs. Absolutely fired up, maybe I’ll have some new Diary stories to write about when I get back.

PEACE!