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For a while I was thinking that Prunty may be able to coach himself into a full-time gig, but now I'm more thinking that a new coach would be good to just shake that Etch-a-sketch and start over next season. Plus Milwaukee is said to be the best coaching destination available in the offseason for already having a star and a new arena to work with. So Milwaukee will probably be able to get the best coach on the market. What's frustrating is I don't think there's anything they can do in the off-season to make this team any better than it is now.
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The Good Place--very engaging storyline. The Season One finale was a great ending. I thought it dipped a little bit the next season, but it's picked up again. Superior Donuts--Ever have one of those shows you watch but don't know why? One you fully recognize is garbage but for whatever reason you still use it as a time-killer? Don't get me wrong, if you haven't seen it yet, don't bother. Baskets--It's a good show, though I haven't bothered with the last couple of seasons for some reason. Bob's Burgers--The best comedy on tv. The characters really grow on you. Fresh off the Boat--It's a decent show. The Last Man On Earth--I hated the first season apart from the finale, but since then it's been really good. I haven't liked many of these current Mexican house episodes, but all in all it's been really good. To a degree they're stuck trying to have celebrity episodes to boost ratings and try not to get cancelled, when the writers would otherwise be moving the story forward more.
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Without an agent, would Happ basically be stuck at where he's drafted at? Would the team hold his rights for a few years and be able to hold him at that salary level like what happened to Richard Griffith? Or since he doesn't have an agent, would he be able to play another year at Wisconsin and get re-drafted? What does not hiring an agent benefit him besides not paying an agent commission, apart from enjoying a senior season at Wisconsin?
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It's hard for me to feel too bad about athletes not getting big money to play in college. Don't a lot of us take unpaid internships or work low-paying jobs to build our resume and land a bigger job? It's the same thing for them. And even without UNC-created classes, there's plenty of blow-off classes one can take your first semester to not exactly get burdened by homework. And one-and-done players don't even attend second-semester classes because they're drafted before final grades come out. They're effectively taking a low-paying job to apply for a higher-paying one. And if you're not good enough to go pro, you can still redshirt and get five free years of education. That's huge. If someone else makes money off of it, that's almost irrelevant. That's the deal you agreed to, isn't it? You don't *have* to go to college to make the pros. Plus how great is is that a D- high school student can use his athletic skills to earn his way into a top school like Duke or Wake Forest for free. Possibly it's a side-note, but my brother is crazy tall. He's a bad athlete, but he's tall enough that he could have gotten a scholarship to most anywhere just on his measurements. He regrets not going for a scholarship to an Ivy League school. His grades were good enough, but we couldn't have paid for that. Ride the bench for four years and get a free degree from an Ivy League school!
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Any sort of contract bidding war for college players and you end up with a worse situation than professional baseball, where the same two or three richest schools would win all the championships. I wonder what would happen if the NBA had a drafting system more like hockey, where a player could declare whenever they wanted, and the professional team could assign them to college or the D-League if they weren't ready for the NBA. It would have helped had Mudiay become a better player, but I also wonder if the trend will develop that HS players will go to Europe or somewhere to get paid to play there instead of one year of the shady-pay system of the NCAA.
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Can someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there an exception to the early withdrawal penalty of a Roth IRA in order to purchase a house? I've finished paying my total debt, but don't yet have enough to start investing with. So I'm devouring investment books and also trying to figure out just where to put my savings. Challenging part is I'll retire somewhere between 55-60, so not old enough to start pulling from an IRA, but I'm currently in work housing, so I'll need to rent/buy a place to live. Also thanks for the advice Nate82. I think as I learn more I'll become more confident in how to do things myself along with how to do it that I suppose I wouldn't really need an analytics tool to do what I should be able to do myself. Plus if I don't know how to do it myself I shouldn't be using a tool to self-invest in the first place and at that point an Index fund would be the better option. Buffett has said "You should invest as if you can only do 20 trades in your entire lifetime," so I don't plan on being crazy-active buying and selling in the first place. And just to have it posted, here's a link to Buffett's annual letters to his shareholders, which are all a must-read and included the one written last week: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
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OK. I took your advice and un-followed a bunch of people instead of deleting my account. That meant un-following my brother and sister, though.
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I just don't think I can do Facebook anymore. I open it up and first thing I see is a cousin bashing [members of my faith] and adding "I even have them in my family!" and other family members insulting anyone who prescribes to my brand of politics. And being that I work in the field, the occasional anti-cop posts from friends and relatives don't help, either. I have no desire to start arguments with family members, so the only choice I see is continue to be insulted by friends and family, or delete the account and not see it anymore. I'm tempted to join the club and start posting tons of polarizing opinion stuff, but that would probably only make it worse. Stinks that I'll end up losing contact with a number of people I don't otherwise have information for. Maybe they have email addresses on their page.
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I subscribe to the "Better Done Yourself" Youtube channel for the fermenting stuff, but he also does Instant Pot recipes, too.
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My folks rent out their second house when they're not there. They pay to have it listed on a site, pay for the property manager, and pay for the cleaning lady to come in after. For the most part it pays the monthly mortgage but isn't any real profit-earner. I'd also imagine the insurance is pretty steep since you've got to replace damaged furniture. I think if I were going into property, it would be purchasing a larger plot of land to hunt on, camp, and for firewood. You take the hit from the property taxes but the value increases as nearby towns grow larger. I see rental property as one of those things where it isn't much of an investment if I can't somehow add value to it, myself, whether that's from knowing how to fix things yourself or other tricks to avoid higher costs. ---------------- I was looking at the stock analyzer Old School Value yesterday. Not cheap at somewhere around $30/mo, but I think when I start being able to put real money away per month, that would really help me to figure out stuff like the Graham Number without near as much work. My usual route is to start with DataRoma, find some interesting recent buys, and then analyze those myself. The downside to it is I lose some time in waiting to see what the Superinvestors have done instead of noticing something right away on my own, but the upside is I'm letting smarter people than me make the initial decision, and I think that's still an overall plus.
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Financial state of baseball: New Quotes from Brewerfan Agent39
GAME05 replied to Matt Breen's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Both the players and the owners created this whole mess and I'm kinda enjoying all the frustration as it plays out. Players are mad because they're not getting offered big money to sign earlier; and owners are mad because they can't afford the contracts of the big-name players. What gets me is all the players are complaining that free agency is taking so long, yet that's been the modus operandi of Scott Boras for ages, having his client hold out to the last possible minute to get the most money. Naturally other agents copy the successful model, yet they're mad they're not signed earlier? Wasn't that the plan in the first place? It's not like Darvish and all the rest haven't already been offered contracts, so isn't holding out longer on them and not the owners? The owners have a system where they can line their pockets with money, and the players have a very high effective salary cap with players already making $30M+. Despite the hiccups of this offseason, isn't this a system in with both parties profit from? Very average players are making $10M per year, so what's the problem? -
A very raw player, undersized to begin with, is only a couple weeks past playing for one coach who everybody agrees was a bad coach. I'm having a hard time thinking of anyone who blossomed under Kidd apart from Giannis, who would've blossomed under anybody. Thon's rookie season had him playing better at the end of the season than anybody ever expected out of him, but this down season and suddenly he stinks? I'd like to see him work an offseason with a different staff, hopefully gain 20 lbs. and start judging next season.
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I haven't sold on Thon yet. He really needs another 30 lbs. to be effective yet. He talked about gaining weight when he was drafted, though it doesn't yet look like he's gained any. But what I don't like is that now he'll take a pass and either shoot it straight away if he's open or pass it immediately. He really needs to learn to be more effective on offense and learn to drive to the basket now and again. I've seen times where he had a lane open to the basket but still chose the longer shot just because he was open to take it.
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I'm staunchly against it. I like the added strategy with a pitcher hitting along with all the "take the pitcher out???" questions during the game. I also like that it creates a difference between the NL and the AL (I don't like Interleague, either).
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That tends to be advice aimed at a younger audience, though. If you're 40 you've already figured it out. I used to hire a lot of young people for summer jobs and they just don't tend to have a lot of references that they'll ask anybody. Plus many of them have a false sense that they're doing great work when really they're not. But yeah, if someone asked you for a reference and you had nothing positive to say, some supervisors should be a little more assertive and answer no.
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Brogdon out 6-8 weeks. Nobody has to worry anymore about him being traded this year.
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Brogdon out 6-8 weeks. Nobody has to worry anymore about him being traded this year.
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I found out this morning that I had been mis-understanding the retirement structure of my job. If I still retire at the time I originally thought I would, I'd make about $1000 less per month than I thought. So I basically just added 5+ years to the length of my career in order to raise the amount of my pension.
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Not that I'm rooting for it or anything, but Brogdon is a great sell-high trade piece. He has probably topped out as far as his ability and probably wouldn't blossom into an All-Star on another team. So his value is in his cheap contract, which means his value is only going to go down from here as he gets closer to being an RFA. Once he's making $9M per season he'll just be another $9M player. I've been against trading assets for a one-year player, but maybe if we'd be able to include one or two of our overpaid players along with, maybe there's a value in sheddin some of that money, even if the one-year rental doesn't re-sign.
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One of Charlie Munger's basic rules for investing is not to invest in an industry you don't understand, so that pretty much puts me out of Bitcoin. I could see it succeeding if the dollar starts to fail as the world's standard currency, but I'm not betting my own money that that's going to happen anytime soon. My father made a pretty quick $1k off of SiriusXM. I don't think he has much faith in it long-term, but it's one he seems to keep an eye on and just noticed it was undervalued.
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I just don't like the idea of going out and giving up assets for a one-year rental when you're barely in the playoff race at all and that one player probably won't lead you to a Finals appearance. What's the point unless Milwaukee doesn't like the price that Jabari will command as an RFA and is assuming they'll lose him. I'm more inclined to give up on the year and just see if there's a chance we can dump off the heaps of overpaid garbage we have on the roster.
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I'm really bad at kneeling down and also standing back up again from a kneel. I'm a bit tall and my father is bad at it, too. Did that again and again for two days during some training this week, along with training which included (lightly) getting knee speared in the thighs. My quads hurt like crazy.
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I've probably used the "positive" word in asking for references before. It's easy to worry the person would agree out of politeness but then only give a marginal reference. I like to call current/past employers when people check the "It's ok to call my employer" box. Often the employer doesn't realize the person is looking for new work (hey not my problem, as you checked the box) and I get more honest work reviews.
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There's also the top assistant with the Spurs who will be in the running.
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Gianna's and Kidd were really close. Kaari, on the other hand, had stopped talking to him. Gianna's being upset is a credit to his loyalty. Hopefully he'll like the new guy, too.
