Unless you’re working with absolutely top-flight financial managers, you’re probably not beating just putting your money in index funds, even if you have a LOT of money. Buying a McMansion is generally not a great way of seeing a significant return, especially if you’re turning around and selling it in a handful of…

This makes sense, but if I were a pro athlete, especially a young one w/o a family, I flat-out wouldn’t buy. Renting is honestly a better solution, even financially, in a lot of situations, and this seems like one of them.

Given the instability of their profession, pro athletes aren’t always eager to make their house a home, and Phil less so.

Good luck! I hope you get to where you want to be.

I’d honestly completely forgotten that years three and four are options. So my whole followup comment to your list of suggestions was basically pointless. :)

Overall I think it’s a good idea. I was just thinking of, like, The Detroit Pistons, who at the time they drafted Darko were an otherwise well-run organization. It would’ve sucked for them if he’d jumped from $6m (or whatever) to $15m after two years. On the other hand, maybe it’s fine ... you take the chance in order…

Balmer fired GM-Doc (keeping coach Doc is fine) and brought in the people who built last year’s surprisingly good Clippers team, which also provided the assets necessary to swing the Kawhi/George signings. He’s going to end up paying luxury tax for years if those two guys stick around, and I don’t think he’ll mind. He’…

• A higher rookie wage scale that pays rookies more overall, with drastic pay bumps for high lottery picks for option years 3 and 4

Drawing parallels with personal experience is a core way in which human beings relate to one another. I have not lived Doc’s life, only my own, but I empathize with struggles to kick addiction and be a better person in part because of my own experiences. They are, as I mentioned, not the same struggles Doc is having,…

That wasn’t my intent and I’m sorry if it comes off that way. I was trying to illustrate that sometimes you get lucky and the switch flips.

It's definitely a scary situation. He doesn't seem to know how to live a life without drugs, and that might be the biggest barrier. If you can't picture a sober life, I imagine it's very hard to live one.

I tried to quit a pack-a-day smoking habit three times, including a 2.5-year sting, before finally doing so in 2003.

What’s confusing to me is that these owners want this expensive boondoggle and don’t seem to care if it makes money or not, but then are absolutely adamant about not paying the luxury tax. I don’t get how you can not give a shit if it makes money while simultaneously giving a shit if it costs money. Just pay the fuckin…

The effort involved combined with the frequency it’d need to be done seems higher than having to clean the occasional ball of shit off the hardwoods, much as I dislike the latter.

:)

I have two litterboxes. Also, I’ve had these cats for eleven and ten years, respectively. I’m not new to the experience.

And it’s better than hanging out with actual cats.

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Solid analogy

Age certainly plays a big part in all of this. Like ... your reaction to walking in on your parent banging anyone (other parent or not) is going to be wildly different if you’re five, fifteen, or twenty-five.