You just gotta love the obnoxious real estate prices in Manhattan. Vornado Realty Trust’s 220 Central Park South has already secured $1.1 billion, or one-third of the building, making it already profitable reports the WSJ. “We are doing beyond well,” said Vornado CEO Steve Roth. Yawn. Then you have the penthouse at the building called […]
Last Wednesday at the Range
How well your rifle shoots depends on a number of variables. Last Wednesday I worked on a couple of things I thought I’d share with you. First, to try and limit user-error I shot off of a bench. Over the past month or so I’ve been shooting lying down or prone. If you’ve ever shot […]
“The Moment” I Lost Money
If you’re over 50 and lived in or around the Boston area during the 70s then you know the moment. 45 year’s ago, Mother’s Day 1970, Bobby Orr took the pass from Sanderson, scored to clinch the Stanley Cup, and “The Flying Bobby” was born. That was the defining moment in Boston sports for Boston […]
Golf Maverick
Maverick McNealy is the son of Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy. Sun Micro was acquired in 2010 by Oracle for a cool $7.4 billion. But you would never know it by the way McNealy and his wife Susan have raised their four children. “Despite the family’s wealth, the boys slept in one room with four […]
Be Nice to Millennials
You’d be smart to be nice to Millennials—this year they will outnumber Baby Boomers, which peaked at 78.8 million in 1999. In 2015, “Millennials (whom we define as between ages 18 to 34 in 2015) are projected to number 75.3 million (my emphasis), surpassing the projected 74.9 million Boomers (ages 51 to 69),” according to […]
Pedro Martinez: Born to Pitch
You were never in doubt who was in charge when Pedro Martinez took to the mound for the Boston Red Sox. A review of his memoir in the WSJ: In “Pedro,” Mr. Martinez’s memoir written with longtime Boston Herald baseball writerMichael Silverman, we learn that Mr. Martinez was fueled by rage. He hated the many scouts, […]
NFL Draft: How’d Your Team Do?
You get the last 25-years of first-round picks and their bust rates courtesy of NFL analyst Brad Gagnon. This isn’t the final word on your team’s first-round pick(s) by any means. But it does provide the risk of drafting certain positions over the last 25-years. As you can see RBs and QBs top the list. […]
Stand with Rand
Rand Paul is standing strong against Hillary. He leads the GOP field in a general election poll. The last thing we need is another Bush or Clinton. According to the WSJ: In those matchups against four potential rivals, Mrs. Clinton topped Messrs. Bush and Rubio by 49% to 43%, and she topped Mr. Walker by 50% […]
Be Great at One Thing and…
You may know Mark Knopfler, the “Sultan of Swing,” from his years fronting the rock band Dire Straits. Well he’s still pickin’ that guitar. He released another solo album this year, Tracker. Talk about being great at one thing. You don’t have to be great at just one thing to create wealth, but it definitely […]
Patriots Draft Baby Wilfork
Congratulations to my New England Patriots for addressing their defensive line problems. A huge hole was created up-front by the departure of long-time favorite Vincent Wilfork. And so with their first round draft pick, in the 2015 NFL draft, the Patriots selected 6-foot-2, 320 pounder Malcom Brown. “I’m not sure you can do better than getting my No. […]
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