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Is there a way to get it from my phone to my TV? I couldn’t figure it out last year, so I had to watch on my phone all year.

George leans a little heavy on “tell me a story I don’t know about______” as a leading conversation starter. I listened to the Eddie O interview. Pretty good. I always liked George on the Score, so I’ll listen to select shows (skipping blowhards like Greenberg and Wilbon).

This is where I’m at. My 21 and 19 year olds are clearly dependent college students, and we don’t get the stimulus for them because of their ages, and they can’t get it because they are dependents. It really doesn’t make sense. I only got a little bit for my 16 year old because of my wife any my income, but even a little bit helps. My take home check is literally a third of my gross. I know I should increase my withholding, but I can’t really afford it. My wife and I contribute the maximum to our 401k ($39k total plus another $11k to repay a loan we took from it when we bought our house). So, our AGI is reduced around $50k as a result. I can’t do much more to itemize to save on taxes. I played around with donations, and that didn’t do much. Our tax system really is crazy.

Thanks. I should just become a billionaire and not have to pay taxes.

Thanks. Looks like I have a few more hours of tax prep. I’ll have to figure out how to do it without having to totally redo mine.

Yeah. It’s going to be a pain, but that’s what I plan to do. At least I have time. It sucks that no matter what I do, it always seems like whatever changes they make to the tax codes negatively affect (or at least don’t help) me. I seem to fall into this weird pocket where no matter what I do, at the end of the year I always owe something. So annoying.

Working on my taxes today, and I have a few questions. I’ve done them myself intermittently using TurboTax through the years (using the prior year’s professionally prepared filings as a guide). I have a 21 and 19 year old college students, and because of my income (with my wife), I don’t qualify for any of the tuition related deductions/savings. Would it be better for my kids just to file independently and not claim them as dependents? I’m wondering if they would get a refund because of their college expenses and low earnings.

This Hawks season has been a nice surprise.

I agree. The Sox signings of Sale, Moncada, etc. makes sense because they are giving the player more money now in exchange for a little more team control. Not sure why the Padres would lock Tatis up as if he was a free agent. Why not wait a few years?

True. I misread your post. My mind switched it from Super Bowl winning to HOF when I looked it up.

Lions drafted Otto Graham and YA Tittle.

I’m not saying he wasn’t a great player prior to steroids (not that we really know when he started), but the common thing always said about Bonds is he was a sure fire HOF prior to steroids. Using Baseball Reference’s similarity scores by age’: Tom Brunansky (978.2) Jay Bruce (959.2) Jason Heyward (944.4) Jack Clark (948.2) Grady Sizemore (956.1) Bobby Bonds (938.2) Justin Upton (901.2) Shawn Green (915.5) Shawn Green (894.2) None on that list are HOF, but some really good players. Maybe his career ends up closer to Dale Murphy than Willie Mays. For a comparison, put in Mantle or Mays and see their similar players by age. All HOF from the starts of their careers. Starting at age 31, Bonds’ similar players become HOF (Snider, Mantle, FRobinson). Clemens has a similar thing. He was really starting to fall apart at the end in Boston. Without steroids, who knows where his numbers would have been - maybe winning just a little more than 200 games. When he went to Toronto, all of a sudden he got healthy and put together an unbelievable stretch.

There’s a book about Ty Cobb that says much of what we believe or have heard about him is not true - the racism, sharpening spikes, etc. I didn’t read it, but I heard the author on a podcast years ago. Google “Ty Cobb myths.”

I stumbled across Jedi yesterday and watched 20 minutes. Probably haven’t seen it in 10 years. Thankfully it was the first 20 minutes and not the last.

My wife was trying to help her Trump loving uncle register for the vaccine as it is now available for 65+ year olds here in AZ. She couldn’t make an appointment for him because the slots are already full (and I assume we’ll run out of the vaccine soon). Her uncle immediately started blaming Biden and Pelosi and saying it was a political conspiracy to limit who gets the vaccine. Seriously, these people are nuts.

I listened to both, and both were good. The Trump Inc one gets a little repetitive, but it shines a pretty bright light on the amount of corruption he has been involved in for his entire career. Sadly, I’m sure a deeper dive on many of our politicians and top 1% would reveal the same. It’s worth a listen for anyone with an open mind.

Great. With Trump refusing to leave, it will be like an episode of “Wife Swap.” At least Melania will be used to tucking an old man into bed at 7:30.

The crazy thing I hear is people who say “He’s just taking advantage of the laws” when it comes to things like not paying taxes. These people are missing the point that the 1% make sure the tax codes and laws are written so they can take advantage.

Let me guess...this is fake news?

This is the party that respects law and order. Surely all the police have to do is tell them how to behave, and all will comply peacefully.

They should show her twice on the Academy Awards “In Memoriam” video. Bookend her Charlie’s Angels and 70’s shows pics.

It would be nice if the LB would blow up the WR dragging across the field. It’s within 5 yards, so the can legally give the WR a good shot. WRs would probably be less eager to drag across the middle if they took a few good shots. An LB turning and chasing isn’t going to work very well.

I guess Clemson didn’t belong either.

They were saying there would be 20 million people vaccinated by EOY. As of yesterday, we were at 2.1 million. Criticizing the rollout of the vaccination is perfectly fair. They've had months to put a plan in place and be ready to coordinate who gets it and when. Instead, they've spent the last two months focused on trying to stay in power and denying the election results.

Is it possible to backload these international contracts so he can get the full amount he’d expect, but the Sox would only pay what they have left of this year’s budget.