Texsox

When I was teaching senior seminar we would do a simple lesson let's plan on having $500,000 cash at age 60. How much would you have to save if you are 50, 40, 30, 20 and they start seeing the magic of interest.

Damn, I thought Grady was going to turn things around

Memorial Day in newspapers across America. Editor "It's really slow today what White Sox articles can we get a jump on without wasting our time?" "Moncado gets injured?" "Already finished, we've been using a template from the last five years." "Sox are first team to be eliminated?" "Perfect. Time it for Labor Day. No team can be worst than that" lol

I would like to see teams allowed an offense lineup and a defense lineup. Basically universal DH. Caleb doesn't have to play D. Platoon it like football.

Whoa. I want a 145 game season, seven inning double headers, and all short inning pitchers. It's the kids that want this long ass season.

With shortening the season that would have to happen.

I'm thinking the shared TV money from playoffs would offset the loss of meaningless home games.

I wish baseball would get with the 21 century and expand the playoffs. Teams like the Sox shouldn't be playing in September. Not just because they are bad, it's to help them next season by their players not getting hurt. Rest their guys, have an expanded fall training to get then ready for the next season. Have the top four in each league earn a bye to the second round. Have eight teams in each league playing for the opportunity to play those eight. That would be a 24 team playoff without the worst of the worst teams.

Why go backwards? That's like last century thinking. Next they will want them to bat. Go forward. Expand the pitching staffs, have all relief. Some guys may be first inning specialists. Others mid game. Put a little strategy back in the game. Get this game out of the last century.

Careful, Getz may consider that a challenge.

Having confidence in a couple choices allows me to react without really any stress.

I was a buyer.

My entry was a mutual fund that I literally just kept adding money into and barely looked at until I split it with my ex. I got interested in a more active approach, like yourself, and started picking some individual stocks with mixed results. @southsider2k5suggested ETFs and my results have improved greatly. QQQM has been very good to me. NOBL is my safety bet. About half or so I have in stocks are in those two. I know a few people that got started with an Acorns account. Cheap to open. Set your risk levels and they pick the investments. Watch them for a while and you'll gain some insights. For the majority of Americans their best investment is buying a home. Their second biggest is not paying interest on credit cards.

It was until the games industry cratered and Bally moved their video slots and lottery business to Nevada. Fortunately for me telecom exploded shortly after that.

When I was in the electronics industry Bally was my largest customer while nearly every version of Pac-Man was being built. I was a "game tester" and they would send a game to my house. I had to give them back eventually but it was a sweet deal. Most of my friends saw Professor Pac-Man for the first time in my basement.

I know they are at home but I wonder what MLB would do if JR decided road games are too expensive and they stopped traveling.

Here's my nightmare scenario "Hey Beni, we need to add two million to your deal to hit the minimum".

I think this goes back to something that has come up a couple times. The Sox not only have to be high bidders for a free agent but by a significant margin. The "we suck as a franchise penalty". Once we have them, moving then gets tough. Would he have played elsewhere for the same money? A million less? Five million less?

It's an unscripted reality TV show. Packaged to sell to an audience. And this team has jumped the shark.

https://www.mlb.com/news/frontier-league-team-wins-game-without-scoring-a-run

If it would be the same and fair throughout the rest of the world, would you prefer amateurs over NBA stars?

I was just coming here to post that. Most of the time we would look at his history and blame the staff for mismanaging his earlier injuries, rushing him back to play, etc. We could look at how he plays for a different coaching staff as further proof how bad our managers have been through the years.

Shut him down for the year. He could get hurt.

How many times to you have phone recordings if nine year old kids calling 911 begging for help because their friends and teachers are dying?

I'm sorry man. My news is filled with the Uvalde records release and as a teacher, reliving this is affecting my mood. In a country where kids can't go to school without worrying about an asshole with an automatic weapon killing them this healthy guy not being able to pitch every five days seems wimpy. But your point is really valid. I'm going to go find happy news or get drunk, maybe both.