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The last two years of high school are better than being ridiculously rich? I don't think you quite understand just how much you are able to do with $20,000,000.00 (minus legal fees and taxes or course).
And it's not like he won't be able to bang high school cheerleaders still. He'll still be the right age, and he'll still be a very prominent local athlete.
When I saw this current article, my first thought was "great job by his PR team getting him on the SI cover, so they could immediately announce this."
If high school was the best years of your life, then you're living a pretty bad life. You don't want to be the guy that constantly reminiscences about your high school glory days.
Amen Monty, I feel sorry for anyone that peaked in high school, although I must say I was classmates with a lot of them.
Mike Golic is not so hot.
No. That's why it's so smart for him to get eligible for the draft as soon as humanly possible. He's guaranteed a multi million dollar signing bonus that would allow him to live comfortably for life if he avoids extravagent expenditures and invests it well. If he bombs as a player, then he gets a job like everybody else, except he'll have millions in the bank.
The more time between now and him entering the draft, the more time for him to suffer a freak injury or do something stupid like those crazy teenagers are known to do. Or both, probably at the same time.
No they shouldn't, unless you are a non-lead character in Dazed and Confused, Friday Night Lights, or that Vanderbeek movie whose name escapes me. If you are, okay.
I am not saying he shouldn't sign. But to think that what he is giving up is not worthwhile may come back to haunt him if he flames out.
In regards to college, if he is as good as his hype I am sure he could get close to a full ride to a big time school. It seems that educational requirements in his (and his dads) viewpoint are holding him back at this time.
And a lot can change over the next 50 some weeks in regards to who goes first in the draft. Hahere are still a lot of players who haven't signed yet from this year and might be like Hochevar or Aaron Crow etc. Harper may end up being in the top 10-15 picks.
Great success!
You're spending far too much time examining that ad.
One can always use $2,000 spare dollars...
Wait, where are those years going? He's going to spend one of them at CC, and maybe one in the minors. If you're a great young ballplayer what better way is there to spend your youth than playing ball, and cashing a multi-million dollar bonus check?
Anyway, I wouldn't trade one year of my life now to relive all 4 years of high school.
'Cause I think your couriers just got nabbed.
In this kid's case, it makes a lot of sense...
also sign me up, I could do with a couple tonne.
But the original point wasn't about reliving it, but choosing to forego it.
There is some downside to rushing into adulthood. Or, there should be.
Concur. Youth is highly overrated.
The whole idea of having a peer group (that you didn't select) whose opinions you care about is patently absurd.
If I were somehow forced back into high school, I'd probably be in juvie within a month for stabbing some ####### in the neck with a pencil or breaking a bottle over his head.
She's a closet Pirates fan, but too lazy to get the other half of "BUCS" and finish the tattoo?
And this way, even if he tries to go back during his mid-life crisis, he won't be re-living it, because he never lived it in the first place.
ditto
There is some downside to rushing into adulthood. Or, there should be.
I don't think so. I think society was better off before the invention of "adolescence". Especially the extended adolescence we see now, extending well into your 20's.
The idea that you can engage in adult behavior, but not be held accountable as an adult is destructive, IMHO.
But isn't that the whole idea behind the Lounge?
But isn't that the whole idea behind the Lounge?
No further comment necessary.
Put me down for $2k, too.
If we interpret it this way, we get free money, and if we interpret it the other way, we don't.
Also wanted to respond to someone's question about there being any doubt about him going high...there's no doubt he's going 1st. Everyone "in the know" that I've spoken says he's the best amateur position player they've ever seen.
If I went back to high school or even college I'd dress every day in immaculate suits... just because.
I hear other people drive railroad spikes through their nose and dye their hair Slimer green to prove how different they are.
By the time he reaches the majors, maybe the Canuck buck will be worth more (again).
After seeing how quickly BTFers pounce on a quick, "no work involved," scheme to pocket $2000 and how quickly everyone jumped on board without conscience, I no longer wonder...
She was scheduled to go back and get the rest of the work done, but then the McClouth trade happened and she became too depressed (and busy setting #### on fire) to get it finished.
I've been watching this thread since it began, and enough people have now claimed their share for my sheep nature to take over - sign me up for the dollar bucks.
Number of people expecting money in this thread: zero.
The weird part will be when he keeps seeing a giant penguin lurking around.
Definitely. And if you are not stuck spending them in High School, they can be even better.
I didn't know Yogi was issuing bonds now...
-- MWE
EDIT: Or maybe Lazzeri has a couple thousand Yogi and Barry cards in mint condition...
The most parsimonious explanation is that Lazzeri is the Devil. I'll say no to the offer as well.
If we assume an efficient market, it is impossible to get $2000 without risking capital or supplying some goods or service
Well, if we are wrong and Harper never makes the bigs Lazzeri needs someone to say "told ya so!" to, right?
Thats a service
If I thought that my life peaked at 18, I'd have killed myself at 19.
High school sucked. My life seems to have peaked at 13, killing myself is still under debate. I'm only half kidding.
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