[Rhodes22-list] Sports: Check out brackets

[Benjamin Cittadino]

Ed


Credit where credit is due.  That was a very entertaining post. You made me
smile....but like Brad I don't even want to look at my 401K.  All I do know
is I'm not retiring any time in the forseeable future.

Best 

Ben C

Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> When the market melted down in October of 1987 I was actually on
> vacation in Germany and wasn't following the news.  Not that it
> mattered, I had a negative or near zero net worth at the time anyway,
> but, my best friend was a stockbroker a few years older than me who
> had accumulated a substantial nest egg. He had actually moved a number
> of his elderly clients out of the market in the prior months but kept
> taking bigger and bigger risks personally.  I forget the exact product
> he was gambling with but it had a $20,000 per day automatic stop loss.
> He walked to/from his office every day and day one he says to himself,
> "it's only money, tomorrow it will come back".  By the seventh trading
> day he's walking home from his office about to give himself a pep talk
> and he goes, "you've lost $140,000! That's a lot of f---in' money!"
> 
> He recovered but it took a few years.  I'm too chicken to look at my
> 401K, now a 201K.
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Michael D. Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com>
> wrote:
>> Ed,
>>
>> And you still can't afford a seat at a game, even though the 50 yard line
>> seats were purchased with your own money!
>>
>> I think that you are missing the Eastern Division, as they are certainly
>> going to be competitors.
>>
>> Mike
>> s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
>> Nissequogue River, NY
>>
>>
>> From: "Tootle" <ekroposki at charter.net>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008
>> 11:37
>> AM
>>>
>>> See attachment:
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>>> Sports+Brackets.jpg
>>>
>>> Ed K
>>> Greenville SC USA
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