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...didn't get Pavano, we didn't get Radke, we didn't get Hudson. We let Derek depart without so much as a fare-thee-well, and lost Martinez to the Mets-which mightn't have been such a bad thing, no matter how he performs in Queens. (The bet here is that he'll be swell for a year or two, especially against those NL lineups, but by year five he'll be cooked to a crisp. And he'll begin to act up in year three, as is his wont.) Gabe Kapler certainly deserved to play every...
...speculation. For me, there's a particular terror of repeating my New York mistake: joining the herd moments before it runs off the cliff. But with Chinese incomes surging and well-paid expats flocking to Shanghai, I have little doubt that luxury apartments in prime locations are a great bet if you hold on to them long enough. As Faber says, "You may overpay on a short-term basis, but real estate in China makes sense in the long term." Of course, the same was true of New York. If we'd held on to that dud apartment...
...wend their way from their apartments to their office in an immense downtown shopping mall through tunnels, skyways, and inter-building corridors, without ever stepping foot outside. And with this realization comes a wager. To deal with the mind-numbing tedium of their cubicle lives, the group decides to bet a month’s salary to see who among them can survive the longest without fresh...
Wednesday was a senior bar night as well, this time at Cambridge Common, up by the quad. Highlights of the evening: losing a $5 bet on whether two friends were going to hook up (lesson: always err on the side of scandalousness); and watching my drunken guy friends pee in the streets during the long walk back to Quincy. I can only imagine that this happens every night to Quadlings, and I can only say I feel their pain...
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