Brock Beauchamp
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Dombrowski worked some serious magic to keep Detroit afloat. It also helped that when he made a major mistake - Prince Fielder - another GM stepped in to let him walk away from that terrible deal and that GM got burned for it (as he rightly should for not only acquiring Fielder but giving up Kinsler to do it). I still believe Dombrowski used some form of Jedi mind trick and/or roofies on opposing GMs to pull off some of the trades he did over the years.
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It makes sense in the context of the film. There are references to the Force but no Jedi (obviously). There is one character who straddles the line, though... And he's one of the best characters in the film. I won't say more but there's one scene near the end that I absolutely loved... It wasn't so much about a person using the Force as the Force using a person. And given the prophesy theme from the prequels (and possible TFA depending how Ep VIII shakes out), the scene fits. The Force seems to have a will of its own and is one of the most clever deus ex machinas created in modern storytelling. It can juke and weave to fit most anything you want to do in a story.
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It's also cool that the name of the movie itself is an origin story of a squadron that appears in Episode V and VI: Rogue Squadron (led by Luke and later Wedge, the only two survivors from Red Squadron at the Battle of Yavin).
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Before watching Rogue One, I highly suggest watching A New Hope again. The movie is littered with throwbacks to A New Hope but they're subtle nods that will be lost on most movie-goers. Pay particular attention to pilot call signs during the Death Star battle.
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I also liked TFA but the third act really let me down. I literally yawned during the Starkiller Base scene. While I'm all in favor of throwing nods to past work in the franchise, I don't need to see the same scenes again shot-for-shot. But I really enjoyed most of TFA, particularly the new characters... Who should have received even more screen time than they did. As the movie descended into the Han Solo show with the same scenes I saw in A New Hope, the movie started to show cracks. It stopped being unique cinema and became derivative. As for Rogue One, Felicity Jones is fine. I never had much of an opinion about her one way or the other but she's just fine as Jyn. Neither extraordinary nor bad. Donnie Yen's "Force Ninja" was probably my favorite character. Or the droid voiced by Alan Tudyk. Both were fantastic and stole the show whenever on-screen.
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Yep. I think I liked it better than The Force Awakens. It's much grittier than past SW films and it didn't try so hard to be A New Hope, which was the biggest flaw of TFA. And while TFA stalled out in the third act - primarily the Starkiller battle - Rogue One's final half hour was thrilling.
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Yep. I was hoping Dozier's BABIP would climb from his earlier .260-ish years but I'm not sure it can go much higher than .280 given his profile. Lots of flyballs, lots of home runs. That's going to lead to a low BABIP. -
I lean the same direction, though I'm not sure where it will fall in years 2-4.
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Another tech stock I put a little money into last year was Square (about $1k). Got in around $10 and it stayed mostly flat but in the past few months, it has surged to $14 a share. I don't know if I'm confident enough in them to drop big money (for me, $3-5k), but I'm considering dropped another $1k or so into them to see what happens. They have the potential to be a market disruption. I don't think it will be a monster growth company, but I think they have the potential to turn into a profitable enterprise in the coming years as more small businesses begin to realize they can save a crapload of money on credit card processing (and take small business loans to grow).
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If you're looking at a tech stock that is minimal risk, I'd consider Facebook. 1. Their P/E is a fraction of Amazon at 44. 2. They beat the consensus expectation every friggin' quarter. 3. Their profits rise almost every quarter. I don't know if there's a company out there that has made smarter purchases at a higher frequency than Facebook. When they picked up Instagram, people were questioning their methods. When they picked up WhatsApp, people were floored by the price they paid for the app. Today, both platforms are thriving and so is Facebook itself. WhatsApp in particular was a really smart pickup, despite its absurd price.
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Another thing to remember about Amazon is that while their P/E is astronomical, two years ago they had never turned a profitable quarter as a company (or if they had, it was rare). Now they're turning a significant profit every quarter. If there's a company whose absurd P/E is warranted, it's probably Amazon. I'm not sure what the ceiling is on the company but it's very high. But, at some point, that P/E needs to normalize, which means the stock price will flatten. Not sure when that will happen, though.
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They're definitely the future and if you want to invest, now is the time. They've dropped at least $50 off their peak price from a few months ago. But I don't know if I'd invest in them at this point. I got in when they were around $330 and, obviously, made a great return on them... But at their current price point, I'd be more wary. But it really depends on the return and speed. As I said, they're down from their peak price right now and they look to dominate the future. While you won't see the 140%+ gains I'll see, you should see significant gains within a year, I suspect. I think they'll be back over $800 a share relatively soon.
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Today it's funny but nine years ago, it was quite a pain to manage, particularly when trying to extract from shared server space. BYTO used to be hosted on GoDaddy of all places. What a **** show.
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5GB is a *very* large database, actually... Well, for our kind of use, anyway. It was 5GB of pure spam data, which is kind of extraordinary.
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No, we lost the wiki through atrophy. We mostly stopped using it and then the software fell behind the curve, which meant the wiki was flooded with spam due to vulnerabilities. I made a few attempts to save the database but ultimately gave up and nuked it (the thing had ballooned to something like 5GB).
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As always, thanks so much for the hard (and largely unappreciated) work put in by the moderation crew.
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Give Rosario half a season under a new hitting coach, evaluate, then make a decision. I'm not bullish on Rosario's chances of being an above average outfielder but he's shown enough ability to warrant another look. He has 800 PAs and a .735 OPS. That's not going to blow anyone out of the water but it's enough to give him more time.
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My favorite part of BYTO was the Wiki we had running for a year or so. The entries on Canada and Juan Castro were the highlights.
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Yes it was.
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Brock1978. I rarely enjoy banning people but that one was a real delight.
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IMO, it's kind of ridiculous the lower rate kicks in at a single year. If you want to support long-term investing, market stability, and retirement savings, 3-5 years makes a lot more sense to me. Go easy on the people who invest long-term for stability and retirement, don't let the high-rollers and brokers get that rate after just 12 months.
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Yep. My understanding is that if you hold a single stock for less than a year, it's 30 or 35% tax. If you hold it for more than a year, it's 15%. What you do with the money afterward is irrelevant. I'm going from hazy recollections, though... My numbers there may be off a bit. I haven't sold many "winners", though I've sold some modest losers over the past few years. I've never paid the higher rate in taxes because if I'm ready to get out of a stock, I've probably held it for more than a year.
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Remodeling my kitchen, something really cool happened
Brock Beauchamp replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in The Sports Bar
Oh, and one of the most frustrating aspects of this situation is that I found out his youngest brother died in 2012 and was living within two miles of the home (somewhere in Robbinsdale). We moved into the house in 2011. Damn it all.
