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QUOTE (SnB @ Feb 3, 2015 -> 07:27 AM) Until the tenants stop paying. Again, all that is handled by the management firm. He has had one tenant who came close to defaulting. He has a three month reserve for paying the mortgage and adds a month each year. He isn't taking any profits out of the houses, he is paying off the mortgages as quickly as possible.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 09:51 PM) I don't think that math is right. Two families are buying him a house every month? And he'll have 6 by age 40? What, is he 39? He started when he was 27. He is 29 right now. He buys one every 12-15 months.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 30, 2015 -> 02:50 PM) The male to female ratio is like a Rush show. Band or political shill?

Seeing that Paul Konerko Topps card has me remembering heading to the store and buying a pack. Got it Got it Got it, need it, Got it, need it, need it, got it . . .

Nicely played Topps.

Wouldn't it be great if the teams cut salaries and have? Then they could ___________________ .

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 10:24 AM) Im curious what the penalty would be if you were to enforce no shifts. Oh hey you are in the no shift zone, automatic ball/walk? I got an idea, lets review this in the booth and determine if he really was in the no shift zone so we can waste another 5 minutes Limited the appeals or make it like balls and strikes. I can't believe it will be called more than once or twice a season per team, if at that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 10:07 AM) Uh, offsides? They do not lay down stripes every time there is a new line of scrimmage. (that's only for TV viewers) They wouldn't need to mark the field any differently.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 08:05 PM) Being a landlord sounds like a giant pain in the ass. They use a property management firm. Nothing to do except pay the small fee.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 11:21 AM) I am hopeless with power tools. I'm an accountant for f***sake, haha. A drill is the extent of "power" tools that I use and a flat screen mount or hanging some towel holders is as tough as it gets for me. That said, I was pretty proud of the electrical work I did in my house when we first moved in (so far no fires to date either). And I "loosely" use the term electrical work (if you call putting in a new light fixture (where an old one already existed) electrical work). My main rule is, unless it is simple, don't do it. And if it involves water, just count me out. The cost of me screwing something up far outweighs the savings of having a plummer come out. That said, the makita drill I've had has lasted generations (passed down). Works fantastic to this day. I'm not certain what a plummer is but if he is like a plumber, I agree. With electrical there is a circuit breaker.

My stepson and daughter in law have just bought their second investment home. They live very frugally and are able to save about 25% of their income each month. They now has two families buying him a house every month. His goal is six before he turns forty. When he retired he will own all those homes. Sounds impossible and it is, unless you start off that way. They drive nice cars, not super expensive and drive them until there is just no life left in them.

Tell me about it! Because there ain't no snow here, we're playing golf.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 01:18 PM) However, if the disease was pretty much eradicated in the US it had to come from somewhere, not saying it had t be undocumented people but that is more likely. How many Americans travel overseas? How many visitors do we have flying into the US every day?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 31, 2015 -> 04:02 PM) No mention of the vast amount of illegal immigrants coming in who are bringing with them these diseases? That is an excellent point. We should offer vaccinations to anyone who wants them so that Americans can decide to not vaccinate their kids. Of course these parents are also assuming that their kids will never travel internationally.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 07:17 AM) If twenty years from now, the average age of a baseball fan is closer to 33-43 and not 53-73, then the commissioner will have pulled off an amazing trick. Gammons said it this morning....about baseball being too focused on promoting the history of the game and ties to the past, while NBA and NFL is all about superstars and action figures. With Jeter leaving the game, guys like Trout, Stanton, Puig, Kershaw, Abreu, Sale, McCutchen, Cabrera, etc., have to be promoted much more effectively and strategically. A lot of the momentum from the World Baseball Classic has stopped....how are they going to continue to build up revenue streams from Mexico/Caribbean/Venezuela? Brazil? Colombia? Central America? With the distance to China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan being a prohibitive hindrance, how to continue to expand in the Asian market, besides just simulcasting games over satellite? Will Million Dollar Arm move the meter AT ALL in India? Baseball still has the divide between the have and the have not teams. There are too many teams that leave sprig training without a chance in the world of making the playoffs. What are you going to the game to see? Superstars and the game itself.

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May I suggest that pictures would be a very interesting addition to this thread?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 08:23 AM) how would you even do it? have "zones" marked on the field where the different position players have to be in? or what? automatic walk? Football players do not need zones marked on the field for them to line up correctly, why would baseball players?

Boras, I think the owners are making huge profits and should pay more to the employees. Plus, I represent some of the best players playing. If Boras signed up for an account on an internet message board then he can make suggestions on how the game should be played, but not until then. Baseball's history and traditions are both keeping it alive and killing it at the same time. I don't mind exploring each and every idea for merit. The DH was sacrilegious to many baseball purists. It improved the game in my opinion. OMG! They are proposing a wild card game in baseball?! Why play the regular season? That was a terrible idea we now have embraced. I'd like to hear a fully thrashed out conception of a neutral site World Series. The media currently sets up in two cities and moves back and forth. Corporations set up for 6 days at golf tournaments all the time. This would not quite double that. The bad news is the northern teams without a dome would be screwed . Which may actually be a benefit. Baseball games with fans dressing like they are snowmobiling to a football game are ridiculous. I assume the season is as long as it is because of revenue. But I could easily have the season start a week later and end a week or two earlier. I can't believe those games are much of a money maker. Baseball can't afford sacred cows. Only reject some of these ideas after a serious look.

I am such a purist I would like to see a platoon system like in football. Have a defense lineup and a offense lineup. DH everyone. I would also expand the rosters to 30 which would meet with a lot of objections from the accountants.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 12:04 PM) Who you work with is HUGE in terms of having a good time at work, wherever that may be. I don't care if you are one of those "ohhhhh, I just looooveeee my job" type of people, if those you work with are a bunch of asshats, that love won't last. I don't hate my job...but I wouldn't call it a love fest, either. There are a LOT of things I love more than being at work, such as my family, friends, road trips, good restaurants, a vodka martini, fishing, etc...I'd rather be doing those things than while working. But work isn't bad...I don't hate being here, either...but I do it because I'm pretty good at it and I get paid...not because I love it. Edited for why I spent 30 years in sales and sales management.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 01:27 PM) Z-fixed. another fix

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 07:40 AM) "Don't love your job, love the money it pays ... and use that money to do what you love." -Y2HH, Crushing dreams since 1999. That is the exact advice a fellow educator gave his son who is considering being an archaeologist. Be Phil Collins instead and buy every Alamo artifact worth owning and fill the dream that way. I can't say I disagree.

So when is the media and politicians going to have us caring about immigration again? Will this just be another election cycle boondoggle again? They were able to spend billions on a wall making construction companies happy, now they are working for the drug testing companies getting their pocket lining bills passed. Once the money is spent the politicians and media pundits seem to go away and we forget.

I'm not a fan of the idea . . . but something to think about This is like telling pitchers they don't have to hit and hire someone to hit for them who doesn't have to play the field. Well now that we sound like a bunch of NL fans . . . I like a commissioner that will consider anything, it doesn't mean it will actually make the rules book. Parallels I see are we have off-sides in hockey and soccer. My guess the idea springs from a desire to see more scoring, the same tree that brought us the fruit of the DH. For the same reason we like the DH others would like the no shift rule. How about no intentional walks? Four consecutive pitches outside the strike zone results in a two base walk.