If you were to give advice or a truth to your younger self or a fellow human, what would it be?
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Life is just about hellos and goodbyes. Be sure to enjoy every hello....because down the road, it's all goodbyes.
The most important decision you will ever make is who you choose to spend the rest of your life with and build your family with, choose very carefully.
I would have told myself to not chase money and find a secure job with a pension. Too many of my friends are retiring in their 50s. I made good money for a few years but long term but I regret it. I moved 9 times chasing promotions and in the end that employer decided I wasn't valuable and downsized me.
Similarly, don't sacrifice quality time with your kids when they are young. My kids got the trips to disney and playstations, etc but as they grew older they resented that I worked so much. You can't get that time back
Similarly, don't sacrifice quality time with your kids when they are young. My kids got the trips to disney and playstations, etc but as they grew older they resented that I worked so much. You can't get that time back
Find yourself a coach, someone who will push you. My in-laws were college professors, biologists. (MIL was the world’s expert on snail respiration, lol.) When we’d go visit them for Christmas, I’d go to their office to study. I’d be gone for four hours and when I’d get back my father-in-law would be all “Back so soon?” Lol.
Younger self?
I wouldn't ... while there are plenty of things I wish I knew then that I know now, and plenty of mistakes that could be fixed, giving any advice to my younger self could change my entire life ... different career (good or bad), different wife, different kids, could be dead just by being at the wrong place at the wrong time, etc. I'm good. I like my life. I'll leave it as is.
Fellow humans?
Well, there's a ton of advice I could give, but maybe I'll just list a few
1. Don't be afraid to succeed - no matter what you're doing - asking that girl out, picking that challenging academic route or career ... whenever you're hesitant, unless it's a personal danger situation, go for it
2. Dream big, and go after those dreams little by little. Little people don't dream, or don't go after them.
3. Be a leader in being helpful and considerate to others ... whether it's the little things like opening doors, or picking something up that someone dropped, or it's providing them with help to get their life on track
4. Trust but verify ... don't underestimate how awful people can be, but lead with a positive heart and mind
5. Learn and question ... sometimes you learn the most when you already think you know everything, just by listening to people from every perspective. Always strive for more information and trust you can differentiate the useful from the useless
I wouldn't ... while there are plenty of things I wish I knew then that I know now, and plenty of mistakes that could be fixed, giving any advice to my younger self could change my entire life ... different career (good or bad), different wife, different kids, could be dead just by being at the wrong place at the wrong time, etc. I'm good. I like my life. I'll leave it as is.
Fellow humans?
Well, there's a ton of advice I could give, but maybe I'll just list a few
1. Don't be afraid to succeed - no matter what you're doing - asking that girl out, picking that challenging academic route or career ... whenever you're hesitant, unless it's a personal danger situation, go for it
2. Dream big, and go after those dreams little by little. Little people don't dream, or don't go after them.
3. Be a leader in being helpful and considerate to others ... whether it's the little things like opening doors, or picking something up that someone dropped, or it's providing them with help to get their life on track
4. Trust but verify ... don't underestimate how awful people can be, but lead with a positive heart and mind
5. Learn and question ... sometimes you learn the most when you already think you know everything, just by listening to people from every perspective. Always strive for more information and trust you can differentiate the useful from the useless
Watch the company you keep, drink to socialize, go to night school and absorb as many
trade skills as you can, two days a week at 3 hours a night, is very
doable, Or expand it into useful white collar courses.
When you wire or plumb your house it's is own reward.
Don't be afraid to ask that girl you have a crush on, you'll find out later she would have
gone out with you, and if you get shut down at least you tried.
Cherish your parents, family and good friends , once they are gone, it's too late. Have
some religion in your life, it's a good moral compass.
trade skills as you can, two days a week at 3 hours a night, is very
doable, Or expand it into useful white collar courses.
When you wire or plumb your house it's is own reward.
Don't be afraid to ask that girl you have a crush on, you'll find out later she would have
gone out with you, and if you get shut down at least you tried.
Cherish your parents, family and good friends , once they are gone, it's too late. Have
some religion in your life, it's a good moral compass.
Realize that when you are in your 30’s-50’s, raising your kids, that those years are the “Golden Years”, not later on in life.
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"Don't be afraid to ask that girl you have a crush on, you'll find out later she would have
gone out with you, and if you get shut down at least you tried."
LOL during the summer of my SR yr in college, i decided no matter what I was going to ask one of my classmates out. No matter what I was going to do this. As far as I knew she wasnt dating anyone. School rolled around in September, I am back, see a third classmate who says, Did you here about Meredith? No , Well She got married this summer!! oh well the best laid plans!!
gone out with you, and if you get shut down at least you tried."
LOL during the summer of my SR yr in college, i decided no matter what I was going to ask one of my classmates out. No matter what I was going to do this. As far as I knew she wasnt dating anyone. School rolled around in September, I am back, see a third classmate who says, Did you here about Meredith? No , Well She got married this summer!! oh well the best laid plans!!
Tangentially, they filmed the third BTTF right by where i'm working these days. The town set burned down in the 90s but you can still tell it's the spot next to the rail tracks. Lots of yellow flowers blooming there at the moment.
Respect your teachers but also understand that many of them will try influence you with bias. Learn, think for yourself and never be a sheep.
Avoid dating the same nasty chicks that @Fac dates - they don't clean themselves.
Stay the fck out of debt and don't be so picky on the one's you passed up on
Accept topic view and learn to live with it.
Don’t put the Mickey Mantle card in the bike spokes .
And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is your Portland Cement Crack of the Week.
I had a friend who was a ballboy for the 1961 Yankees in their spring training in St. Pete. He had a ball signed by the entire team, used it in numerous games when he couldn’t find another ball. Eventually it disappeared.
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An uncle who worked as a printer gave us baseball cards in sheets, cut them up individually, what would an untouched sheet of the early 60's Yankees be worth ?
He signed a **** ton of them. Just saying, not meant to be an answer to your question.
“Given the sale price of the two Mantles alone, the sheet is expected to go for $500,000 to $1 million, but it’s impossible to know precisely since many of the cards haven’t been offered before and five of the 18 All-Stars haven’t even by graded at all by PSA,” explained Steven Bloedow, owner of CollectAuctions.net.
The rest of the sheet, including 16 of 18 players who appeared in the 1962 All-Star Game. includes Don Drysdale, Stan Musial, Mays, Frank Robinson, Del Crandall and Dick Groat at the top. In the middle are Jim Davenport, Bill Mazeroski, Bill White, Camilo Pascual, Al Kaline and Mantle. The bottom row has Leon Wagner, Earl Battey, Tony Kubek, Brooks Robinson, Bobby Richardson and Norm Siebern.
No cards of Groat, Mazeroski, Davenport, White and Siebern have ever been graded by PSA.
While the set has always been referred to as having a “1961” date, it’s more likely that the cards were produced around 1963. The single-most compelling evidence is the crudely airbrushed St. Louis insignia on Dick Groat’s cap while he clearly is still wearing the garb of his beloved Pira
The 1960 MVP was traded to the Cardinals in the winter of 1962. All of the 18 players in the set were All-Stars at some point between 1959-62 when MLB tested the adage about “too much of a good thing” and held two All-Star games each summer during that span.
While ostensibly created to raise monies for the players’ laughably modest pension fund at the time, the dual ASG notion was mercifully put to rest after 1962, restoring the game to its previous stature; it might take a while, but the players’ pension fund would ultimately develop other revenue streams to notable success.
While the sheet is the star, there is plenty of other material headed to the auction, including a signed near set of 1952 Topps, dozens of unopened boxes, wax and cello packs, hundreds of Post Cereal baseball and football panels, Hartland statues, Kail football figures and other vintage and modern material.
The auction runs from March 17-April 3.
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I'll trade you an Iron Butterfly 8 track straight up, and you might be getting the better part of the deal .
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My buddy is a big Yankees fan . He has at least a cut signature from every yankee pitcher who recorded an out or a player with a hit . He had binders by year catalogued. I forget the first year but it was at least 1925.
He had a saying dead men don’t sign .Kind of a nod to current players blowing out a lot of autographs and decreasing the value of the signature .
Some of these I did follow and would suggest to others, and some I wish I had followed:
1. Have as many kids as you want, don't wait for everything to be right, because it'll be too late.
2. Be curious, and spend your entire life learning. It all compounds. When you're thinking about something and realize you don't understand how it works, or how something occurred historically, write it down, and research it, even if only for an hour or two.
3. Be considerate. All the time. This is so lacking and so easy. Of course many people won't appreciate it all at. Who cares. Some will (just today I had an old man and his wife in a wheelchair act like I'd just paid off their mortgage for an extraordinarily simple act that cost me 5 minutes of my day), and we're a better society when we're looking out for each other.
4. Enjoy every moment for what it is. Don't wish away any time for something in the future. Soak up right now. Carpe diem is right.
1. Have as many kids as you want, don't wait for everything to be right, because it'll be too late.
2. Be curious, and spend your entire life learning. It all compounds. When you're thinking about something and realize you don't understand how it works, or how something occurred historically, write it down, and research it, even if only for an hour or two.
3. Be considerate. All the time. This is so lacking and so easy. Of course many people won't appreciate it all at. Who cares. Some will (just today I had an old man and his wife in a wheelchair act like I'd just paid off their mortgage for an extraordinarily simple act that cost me 5 minutes of my day), and we're a better society when we're looking out for each other.
4. Enjoy every moment for what it is. Don't wish away any time for something in the future. Soak up right now. Carpe diem is right.