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Watched Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix last week. I can't say it was the best Coen Bros thing I've ever seen but I really enjoyed it. They just nail that old western dialog. My only qualm was that of the shorts only one or arguably two had a discernible beginning, middle, and end. Most felt like Act I of a three act play. Tom Waits in particular was great. He needs more acting gigs.
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It is very possible that Yelich improves on last year's first half numbers while regressing on the second half numbers thereby ending up in roughly the same place overall. -
Yup. Last year will probably be the best offensive year of his career. His rate stats from the first half of last year were only slightly better than his career line, but still well above average. It's not a knock of Christian at all, he was simply hitting at a level that can't be maintained by anyone. All the bandwagon fans that jumped on around September are going to be disappointed that he's not prime Barry Bonds for all 162 games every year. There were bandwagon fans in September?
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I don't think anyone foresaw this kind of season from Yelich even those that liked the trade.
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The way I look at acorns is that it's money you never would have invested anyway. So what's a dollar out of $25 each month if you were never going to put that $24 away in the first place? Also, that dollar stays a dollar no matter how much you have in there. If it was 4% all the time then yeah it's outrageous.
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Quiet Place is incredible. Original screenplay had zero dialog.
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Everyone should see Free Solo. No, it's not another Star Wars spin off. It's about a guy's attempt to free solo climb (that means no ropes, just you and your hands and feet) El Capitan inside Yosemite National Park. Best seen on the big screen as the cinematography is jaw dropping. Literally had the audience gasping and clapping. I recommend not reading too many reviews as there are spoilers out there but even if you do read a spoiler or two it's still worth seeing in the theater.
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If people could stop dredging up old posts to play "gotcha" that would be cool. Thanks. Unless, of course, you want to dredge up one of your own posts that is perfectly fine.
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I’m a buy and hold guy. The first stock I bought was DE to give you an idea. OK if you're going to hold then I'm curious why you are worried about the safety of the stock? If you would like dividend income that's another story. Obviously everyone's risk tolerance is different.
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What's your investment timeline?
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I think a few people thought his homers would increase to high 20's (maybe 30) but no one thought he'd be leading the league in SLG and OPS.
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What does that have to do with the Yelich trade?
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Yelich since the AS break: .358./.419/.725 That has to be the best half season in Brewer history. And yes, the AS break isn't really at the halfway mark. Edit: Yup
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Also, thanks! Billy Jo was one of the guys I was like "THIS DUDE IS GONNA BE HUUUUGE when he gets to Milwaukee!!!!" His 1985 El Paso stats were outrageous, and of course little me had no idea what "ballpark effect" was, and I was just super disappointed that he made it to the show and completely flamed out. . There were so many guys that went through El Paso that put up monster numbers. Glenn Braggs, Joey Meyer, Billy Jo, all went through the same year.
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This article is a couple weeks old now, but does offer some insight on what Christian Yelich has changed... https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/what-christian-yelich-has-changed/ This is from their fantasy preview: "His lineup context improves substantially by getting off the sinking ship that is Miami, but more importantly, he goes from the 29th-best park for lefty homers to the 3rd-best."
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I think at this point Yelich is proving even the most optimistic of posters wrong. I had him pegged for maybe 27 HRs this year at most and maybe a high 800s OPS if things went right.
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Since the all star game, Christian Yelich is... 4th in BA (.343) 1st in SLG (.700) 3rd in OPS (1.106) 3rd in ISO (.357)
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I love this.
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I know it happened to others around the same time that I applied. I think they were just inundated with new users during the bitcoin craze and didn't have server capacity to handle it.
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Oops, I deleted my post accidentally. Yeah I applied then heard literally nothing for a month so I sent them an email. They replied saying something like their third party something something had rejected my application. Sorry, go trade somewhere else. So I forgot about them and then a few months later they sent me a welcome email. Really bizarre.
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Yeah it's dirt cheap. They don't trade all stocks though. A bunch of companies I've wanted to buy weren't available.
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"use" is a strong word. I have an account and a few stocks but I don't trade regularly. It's my fun money to invest in small and micro caps.
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You can pull from a Roth IRA for a first time home purchase I think.
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Over time small cap stocks out gain large caps. And if you are looking at a 15 - 20 year timeline then you have wiggle room with risk (obviously risk is personal though). So you could potentially put a large percentage in a small cap index fund. But if that is too risky by your standards then I'd probably just put almost all of it in a large cap index fund and let compounding interest work its magic. If you are are worried about inflation you can diversify and use part of it to invest in some real estate.
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...and I'm done. Haven't binge watched a show like that in a while. I really enjoyed it - surprised I didn't watch it earlier. Breaking Bad in Missouri.
