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Tom's Guide
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
Gozney partners with Matty Matheson to launch a new limited-edition Tread pizza oven
When there's pizza on the table, everyone wants to get a look in, and we couldn't hold back from sharing that Gozney, one of the best pizza oven manufacturers, is launching a new limited edition oven. What's more, the launch is in partnership with chef, actor, and television personality Matty Matheson. What's there to be excited about? The limited-edition version of Gozney's Tread pizza oven has undergone a makeover; rather than the Olive or Black colorway, it now features a bright orange design with cartoon extras on the side. It's available direct from Gozney for $549, and although you can't purchase it just yet, you can sign up for it on Gozney's website. Matheson, best known for his work on the show 'The Bear', where he plays the character Neil Fak, has been collaborating with Gozney for 10 years. He brings his fun and approachable manner to his work, which is certainly reflected in the bold design of the limited-edition Signature version. We love the engraved cartoon accents that feature on the exterior of the stainless steel pizza oven, which are drawn by Matty's illustrator, Christopher Wilson. Tom Gozney, founder and designer of Gozney, says, 'The limited edition Tread is loud, bold, full of personality, and just like Matty, it doesn't take itself too seriously,' and adds, 'But underneath all that fun, it's still Gozney through and through.' From June 18, you can fire up a flaming orange version of Gozney's Tread pizza oven, which features as the best portable pizza oven in our best pizza oven buying guide. It's available direct from Gozney for $549, but although you can't purchase it just yet, you can sign up for it on Gozney's despite the new limited edition, the Gozney Tread is a relative newcomer to the market, having only been introduced earlier in 2025. Aesthetically, it's very similar to the super-sized Gozney Dome. The difference is that it can only handle small pies. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Its compact dimensions make this gas-fired pizza oven ideal for taking on camping and road trips — you can pack it up and go. Additionally, it can reach temperatures of over 900°F in as little as 15 minutes, cooking up to a 12-inch pizza. It also has a lateral gas burner that replicates a traditional wood-fired flame for even and consistent heat distribution. However, if you don't fancy the bright orange Matty version, you can opt for the standard colorways in either Olive or Off Black, which are available for slightly less at $499 from Gozney.
Stuff.tv
5 days ago
- Business
- Stuff.tv
Gozney's new limited-edition pizza oven is bright, bold, and very fun
As a long-time Gozney fan (the Dome S1 is basically a permanent fixture in my garden these days and sits atop our best pizza oven guide), I get a bit excited when they drop something new. Today's announcement is one for the pizza-loving maximalists: a limited-edition version of the super-portable Tread oven, created in collaboration with none other than Matty Matheson, the Emmy-winning chef, TV personality, and star of The Bear. The Matty Matheson Signature Tread is Gozney's most colourful product yet. It's finished in a zingy orange and covered in nostalgic cartoon-style artwork from Matheson's long-time collaborator Christopher Wilson. It's a very joyous and slightly chaotic thing. The release includes matching placement peels and merch (hat, tee, sweatshirt), and slots into Gozney's 'Cook Different' summer campaign – where Matheson plays an over-the-top infomercial host. It's all very silly, but very on brand. Despite the fun exterior, the Matty Tread is still all business under the hood. Like the original Tread, which launched earlier this year and bagged an iF Good Design award, it heats to 500°C in 15 minutes and uses Gozney's clever lateral gas burner for even heat and a true wood-fired-style rolling flame. Accessories like the Venture Stand (with its adjustable legs for uneven terrain) and Roof Rack prep table all work with this version too, so you can still kit it out like a proper mobile pizza station. Tom Gozney says the collab's been a long time coming: 'Matty's been part of the Gozney story almost since the beginning… it felt natural – and overdue – to create something together.' Matheson puts it more bluntly: 'This special edish Matty Matheson Tread is for you. Get out there and make something!' Gladly, Matty. The Matty Matheson Signature Tread launches on 18th June for $549.99 in the US and £549.99 in the UK. Liked this? I've been reviewing a GPS robot mower for a month – now I'll never mow my lawn manually again
WIRED
23-03-2025
- WIRED
Gozney's Gorgeous, Compact Pizza Oven Won't Make It Up Everest (Probably)
Billed as the 'world's most portable pizza oven,' the Gozney Tread is an adventure-ready, ruggedized gas-powered beauty. It is the smallest of the hugely impressive Gozney range, and the second most affordable behind the original Roccbox. It joins an ever-evolving selection of home pizza ovens that have transformed our ability to cook proper pizza—we're talking everything from Neapolitan, Chicago-style, New York and Sicilian—from the comfort of the backyard. With the Tread, Gozney wants us to take our sourdough calzone on tour. Measuring 16.5" x 19.1" x 12.6", it is undeniably compact for a fully featured pizza oven, and the two large handles make it easier (and cleaner) to move than most. The gas-only design can hit 932 degrees Fahrenheit (500 degrees Celsius) and has space for a 12-inch pie. Can it compete with the best pizza ovens available, and at 29.7 pounds, is it really portable enough to take with you? I spent a few weeks both carb- and trunk-loading to find out. Portable? Really? For all the gorgeous marketing images of the Tread in the desert, on mountains and in remote locations, it's worth noting that my review unit arrived on a full-sized wooden pallet. Admittedly Gozney did supply me with every conceivable extra, but it was still quite an eye-opening amount of gear for something billed as not just portable, but the "world's most portable pizza oven.' Photograph: Chris Haslam 29.7 pounds is roughly the same weight as an SUV tire or a typical three-year-old. While not back-breakingly heavy, nobody wants to spend all that long carrying something so awkward. The pizza oven is an impressively compact unit, and ideal if you're a tailgater whose idea of wilderness is the parking lot, but once you factor in the gas canister (they recommend a 5-11-kilogram tank), tripod stand, pizza peel, and all the other accoutrements needed to make pizza away from home, the real-world logistics start to mount. Looking at the competition, the Ooni Koda 12 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is quite a bit lighter than the Tread at 20.4 pounds, but also larger, at 24.4 x 15.5 x 11.7 inches. That light weight is a consideration when you realize that reviews editor Adrienne So has strapped pizza ovens as big as the Ooni Karu 16 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) to paddleboards to take them out to islands in the middle lakes. Ooni's carry covers are also much cheaper than the Tread's Venture Bag ($99) and the ovens come with legs, so you don't need to take a stand. If you're heading anywhere with uneven ground, however, the Gozney stand is much more versatile (more on that later). Photograph: Chris Haslam
NBC Sports
02-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Guardians' Carl Willis is using decades of MLB experience to shape young rotation
GOODYEAR, Arizona, March 2, 2025 — As Shane Bieber popped the catcher's mitt with fastball after fastball during a spring training bullpen session, he kept looking back at one man standing behind the mound. Every few pitches, Bieber would walk behind the mound and huddle up with him, looking down at a tablet filled with more information than many baseball fans could begin to comprehend. Bieber would then walk back, toe the rubber, and deliver another pitch under the watchful eyes of his pitching coach, Carl Willis. Willis has been in this racket for a while. This year will mark his 42nd spring training. He pitched nine years as a reliever for the Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, and Minnesota Twins before transitioning to coaching at the minor league level. In 2003, six years after he retired, he got his first MLB gig as a pitching coach for the Cleveland Indians. Since then, he has served as a pitching coach for the Indians, Mariners, Red Sox, and Guardians, coaching up five Cy Young Award winners along the way. When CC Sabathia was recently elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, he said, 'Literally everything that I learned as a pitcher, mentality-wise, delivery-wise, even down to holding the baseball, Carl Willis was responsible for.' Now, as the Guardians head into the 2025 season, Willis has a new challenge in front of him. With Shane Bieber out until at least the All-Star break following Tommy John surgery, the Guardians rotation will feature only one player over the age of 27 (Ben Lively) and only one pitcher with over two years of MLB service time (Triston McKenzie). But that relative inexperience doesn't deter Willis, who has always adapted his coaching to the pitchers at his disposal. 'I think our philosophy is dictated by the pitchers we're working with and what their strengths are,' he explained after overseeing a series of bullpens at the Guardians' spring training facility in Arizona. 'But you're also looking for an arsenal. It's tough for a guy to be able to go out and have long-term success relying on one pitch.' Building out that more complete arsenal has become a much different process since Willis began coaching. MLB organizations are now filled with players wearing wearable workload monitors, and all bullpens are accompanied by technology like Trackman, which is a radar-based system that tracks baseballs during bullpens to provide data on spin, velocity, and much more to benefit performance analysis. Pitchers are not only working with their pitching coaches but utilizing training labs like Driveline or Tread to develop new pitches or refine pitches currently in their arsenal to make them more impactful. It's a change that Willis has not only learned to roll with but come to embrace. 'I'm more on the old school side of things,' he admitted. 'Still, I have tried to stay abreast and up to speed with the new technology and the things that we have at our fingertips now. How I view it is that it helps me put a plan together. I have tremendous support here. Guys who are stronger in those areas, I let them take the lead in those areas, and I then look at what we've developed and help the pitcher understand how to use that arsenal.' That second step of 'how to use' the new tools at their disposal is an integral part of what Willis brings to the table and can often get lost in the shuffle with all the available data now. As with any new piece of technology, sometimes we can get sucked into the information, closing our mind off to anything else. 'We have video right there where we can see if two fastballs in a row moved differently or potentially if a pitcher caught a little more of a seam on one pitch,' said Willis. 'But a lot of pitchers live and die on that. They want to look at every pitch. In my mind, it's still, how did it feel? Right? Is it repeatable? Is it sustainable? And at the end of the day, this is telling us the profile of pitch, what it's doing, and how we think we can use it.' For Willis, knowing the profile of the pitch and what it's doing and then learning how to be as effective as possible with the rest of the arsenal is another science completely. 'It's kind of looking at the holistic picture,' he explained. 'How I like to put it is, pitching is not just ripping your best stuff all the time. There's an art to it. There's throwing your fastball to different quadrants of the strike zone, changing speeds, changing eye levels. And I sometimes feel like that's getting lost.' The idea of attacking the four quadrants of the strike zone is a foundational principle of calling a game that will never be phased out by technology. A strike zone is broken down into four quadrants: up and in, down and in, up and away, and down and away. It's long been believed that the most effective pitchers have an arsenal that can attack hitters in all four quadrants of the plate. Even if sometimes one pitch is used in multiple quadrants. This prevents hitters from being able to anticipate pitches in certain quadrants, which allows them to 'sit on a pitch' more successfully and make authoritative contact. Right now, in baseball, there seems to be a shift towards pitchers having multiple fastballs that they can throw in multiple quadrants of the plate. Tanner Bibee talked about adding a two-seam fastball to keep right-handed hitters from leaning out over the plate, and that's something Willis is working with many of the Guardians pitchers on. Because with all the data pitchers have at their disposal, hitters have just as much at their fingertips as well. 'I think with the advance of technology and how we can measure seemingly everything, hitters are a lot more in tune with not just getting on top of that four seamer, but knowing where they have to start,' explained Willis. 'They know how much ride a guy has, and so I think just creating a little bit of unpredictability into the profile of a fastball, the four seamer or two seamer, makes it more difficult [for the hitter].' At the end of the day, making things more difficult for the hitter is the pitcher's primary job. Sometimes, it doesn't need to be any more complicated than that. 'You know, it's about keeping the ball off the barrel of the bat,' said Willis. 'The most important feedback is a hitter. The swing they take, the swing-and-miss, the poor contact, how they react, etc. Those things, at the end of the day, are most important.' So Willis, and Guardians manager Stephen Vogt, and the rest of the coaching staff continue to work towards building a pitching staff that can regularly make things harder on hitters and induce poor contact. To do that, they need to ensure their pitchers have complete arsenals that they can utilize in different ways to always stay one step ahead of the hitter in the 'cat-and-mouse game' that hitters and pitchers have played for decades. As a team, the Guardians want pitchers that 'can do multiple things with the baseball and command those things as well.' To Willis, that not only means that the team is more likely to win games, but it means that 'the pitchers are gonna be more efficient and not tax their arms as much just trying to rip the heck out of every pitch they throw.' 'Everyone looks at velocity, although you can't throw too hard anymore,' Willis chuckled. 'Hitters hit or see these [fastballs] up or in 98 and 99 on a daily basis now, but I do think we work to try to find pitchers who can develop a pitch off of that fastball that's going to tunnel, that's going to look the same, that's going to create separation, whether it be speed, north, south, east, west, etc. We look at deliveries, we look at profiles, but we never take their strength away from them or neglect that strength.' That philosophy of looking for pitchers with profiles that could lend themselves to adding new pitches or creating more separation to keep hitters off the barrel of the bat led the Guardians to identify two targets in the off-season: Luis L. Ortiz, formerly of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Slade Cecconi, who had been with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ortiz enjoyed a breakout season in 2024, finishing with a 3.32 ERA and 1.11 WHIP in 135.2 innings for the Pirates. The former top-100 prospect had failed to live up to expectations for a few years, primarily because he struggled to control his four-seam fastball, which often ran up to 100 mph. Part of Ortiz's turnaround was connected to adding a cutter and taking some of the pressure off of that sub-optimal four-seamer. 'I know the night that [Ortiz] shoved against us, [the cutter] was his bread and butter,' recalled Willis. 'But what we're trying to work towards is more consistency with that pitch, particularly more consistency with the location of that pitch. It is a newer pitch for him. That's part of the reason it played last year because the guys hadn't seen it. Now we're just trying to refine it a little bit to show him what zones it is actually successful in, and where he should hone in on commanding that particular pitch, and now that it's not a surprise, not making mistakes with it in other areas of the strike zone.' That's where that lend of technology and old-school attack of quadrants blends. Ortiz has the pitch. He has a shape that he and the team like. It's a new weapon in his arsenal, but how can that weapon be used more efficiently? How can the weaknesses be minimized as much as possible? That's also the question that the Guardians are asking with Ortiz's slider, which scouts believed was one of his best pitches when he was coming up through the minor league system but has never materialized as a real weapon in his big league innings. 'We're kind of toying with a minor grip change with the slider,' said Willis. 'It's more so about the movement profile, but we also feel that with the with the change he's made [by adding the cutter], he's got a little more feel for staying with the baseball a little longer, so that, in itself, is what's creating the profile, but it's also creating consistency at release to hopefully translate into better command.' Understanding that mutability of skills is another consequence of Willis' decades of experience at the big league level. Identifying a new pitch for a pitcher is great, as is coming up with a strategy to target improving one of their weaknesses, but seeing how one change can impact a pitcher's ability to make another change requires a deep understanding of what it takes to pitch. By adding a cutter last year, Ortiz had gained experience in throwing a pitch with 'cut' but a pitch that he needed to release way out front like a typical fastball and not 'break off' like you might a traditional curve or slider. By gaining comfort with that type of release, Willis knew that it would be easier now to teach Ortiz a slider grip that features a similar release point than it would have two years earlier in his career, before he ever picked up the cutter. One piece builds onto the other piece, as you create a more well-rounded pitcher. With Slade Cecconi, the Guardians went beyond just pitch shape and looked back at his foundation as a pitcher. 'We looked at, you know, spin rates and vertical profile of his pitches,' explained Willis, but we actually went back to looking at video when he was at the University of Miami and some of the changes we saw. So the higher release [in his first spring start] is coming from a change in his lower half. Not him trying to raise the arm slot, but putting him in a better position to stay behind and through the baseball.' Cecconi only pitched 101 innings over two seasons at the University of Miami (FL) because COVID shortened the 2020 season, but Willis and his fellow pitching coaches knew that they liked the way the ball came out of Cecconi's hand then. By identifying how his lower-half mechanics had changed since then, they were able to work with him to recapture that height on his back leg and torso, which is creating more consistency but also a new shape on some of his pitches. 'There's still improvement to be made,' admitted Willis, 'but we're seeing the right progress.' Although, that hasn't stopped the Guardians from also tinkering with how Cecconi utilizes the pitches at his disposal. 'When you look at his entire arsenal, [the curve] does create separation in terms of velocity and the back and forth with the hitter,' said Willis. 'We feel like he could throw his curve more than he threw it last year. He relied heavily on the slider. We think the curveball is good enough that he could up the usage and create a little bit of that separation while also creating a whole different profile.' That goes back to the guiding principle the Guardians and Willis have to help pitchers play to their strengths and 'not to get beat with their third or fourth pitch.' It's part of the reason that they have always produced good results with their MLB pitching staff. Even if they may not have the flashy success stories of drastically re-inventing a pitcher like the Twins, Astros, and Tigers have a reputation of doing, the Guardians always set their pitchers up for success by maximizing the tools at their disposal. It's a big reason why I'm a fan of many of the Guardians' pitchers for fantasy baseball in 2025. I have already written countless articles on Gavin Williams as a post-pick-200 favorite of mine, and I covered Tanner Bibee as a burgeoning fantasy ace. Luis L. Ortiz was listed as one of my favorite late-roud draft picks, and Ben Lively is coming off a season where he registered a 3.81 ERA in 151 innings. He won't miss enough bats to be relevant in 12-team leagues, but he could be a good streamer in 15-team leagues, and both Slade Cecconi and Joey Cantillo could provide value if they get a chance to earn a spot in the starting rotation. As of now, I have Bibee ranked SP24, and he's being drafted as SP34. I have Gavin Williams ranked SP50, and he's going SP67, and I have Ortiz ranked SP86, and he's going SP119, so there is a lot of value to be had in this rotation, and a lot of that has to do with the tutelage of Carl Willis.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Peloton Stock Has Soared 256% From Its 52-Week Low. Is It Too Late to Buy?
Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON) stock was a pandemic darling. It reached a record high of $162 at the end of 2020, on the back of surging sales for the company's at-home exercise equipment, which helped fitness enthusiasts stay active in the midst of lockdowns and social restrictions. But sales plummeted once social conditions returned to normal, which sent Peloton's losses skyrocketing. On a few occasions since 2022, there were even concerns that the company wouldn't survive, prompting a management shakeup and a major shift in strategy. Some of those changes are starting to bear fruit at the bottom line, and Peloton stock has recently soared by 256% from its 52-week low. However, with a stock price of just $9.63 as of this writing, it remains 94% below its record level from 2020. Is this the start of a long-term recovery, or will the recent upside fizzle out? At the beginning of 2022, Peloton appointed Barry McCarthy as CEO. He brought a wealth of experience from his time as an executive at Spotify and Netflix. His primary focus was securing Peloton's survival by dramatically cutting costs and creating new opportunities to generate revenue. During his two-year tenure (which ended in 2024), McCarthy slashed half of Peloton's workforce, offshored manufacturing for its exercise equipment, and tapped into new sales channels by listing products with third parties like Amazon and Dick's Sporting Goods. He also expanded Peloton's subscription business by creating a new app-based service for fitness enthusiasts who don't use the company's equipment. In fact, subscriptions now bring in more revenue than equipment sales. But, unfortunately, growth has stalled, with subscription revenue decreasing by 1% year over year during its fiscal 2025's second quarter (ended Dec. 31, 2024). Churn remains a problem -- the number of connected fitness subscribers shrank 4% during the quarter, to 2.88 million members. Paid app subscribers (those who don't own Peloton's hardware) plunged 19% to 579,000. Equipment revenue is shrinking at an even faster pace, declining by 20% during Q2 on the back of sluggish sales of flagship hardware products like the Bike, Tread, and Row. According to Peloton's guidance, its total revenue for fiscal 2025 is on track to come in at $2.4 billion. That would represent a drop of 9% from fiscal 2024, marking the fourth consecutive annual decline. This is a serious problem, and I'll explain why in a moment. Peloton's cost cuts continue to outpace the declines in its revenue, which is driving an improvement at the bottom line. For example, the company's revenue shrank by 3.5% during fiscal 2024, but operating expenses were down 18.2%. The company still lost $551.9 million on a GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) basis, but that was a massive reduction from its $1.2 billion net loss in fiscal 2023. That trend continued in the first half of fiscal 2025. Peloton lost just $92.8 million for the six-month period, which was down from $354.1 million in the year-ago period. The improvement was driven by a 27.5% decrease in operating expenses, which outpaced the 5.9% drop in revenue. The picture looks even better from a non-GAAP perspective. After excluding one-off costs related to things like restructuring, and non-cash expenses like stock-based compensation, Peloton actually delivered $174.2 million in adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) during the first half of fiscal 2025. It isn't "true" profitability because of all the exclusions, but it suggests the company is moving in the right direction. However, management can't slash costs forever. Repeatedly cutting operating expenses like marketing and research and development hinders the company's ability to attract new customers and release new products, which risks placing its revenue in an irreversible downward spiral. So, while achieving profitability is important, it's not necessarily a huge positive if it's on the back of sharp cost cuts alone without any organic sales growth. Peloton stock currently trades at a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of 1.3, which is more than triple where it was in mid-2024. It suggests investors are becoming more confident in the possibility of a positive outcome from this difficult period. However, Peloton's P/S ratio is at rock bottom compared to where it was a few years ago, which means this recovery might still have legs if the company continues turning things around. Still, no investor likes owning a shrinking business, and that's exactly what Peloton is right now. The company is in a relatively secure position because it's generating positive adjusted EBITDA, and it has $829 million in cash and equivalents on its balance sheet. However, it also has $948 million worth of debt which will have to be addressed in the future. My concern is that Peloton won't be able to deliver organic revenue growth from here, and it will eventually run out of costs to cut, which will lead to ballooning losses once again. Peloton's new CEO, Peter Stern, officially stepped into the job on Jan. 1. He most recently worked at Ford Motor Company, but he also spent six years as the Vice President of services at Apple, where he managed products like Apple TV and Apple Fitness. Hopefully, he can use his experience to build on McCarthy's work and chart a path back to growth. With that said, I suggest avoiding the stock until that moment comes. Before you buy stock in Peloton Interactive, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Peloton Interactive wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. 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