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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
So when did your great uncle eat a bullet? Yikes -- that's a tough blow...
Weirdly, I was an acquaintance of one of the guys who was involved in starting The Players Tribune. It sounded like a neat idea that I never thought would get very far. He wanted me to be an editor for them but at the time it would've been one of those unpaid things that looked like a whole shitload of work in my off-hours as I was starting a family. It would be (essentially) unpaid and I was pretty sure I'd be doing it for a year doing nothing but reading trash articles from minor leaguers because this guy didn't really seem to have any 'ins'. I passed and a couple years later you have HoF players announcing their retirements with them. I guess he ended up locking in with a big agency and got Jeter on board and things progressed pretty quickly from there.
So...yeah. Oops. Probably should've taken him up on that one.
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Tough regret but he lived a great life up until he passed away at 95.
Mine for investment was when I just graduated high school. Summer of 03, had an old guy come into the family business. Was talking to him, he told looks like you just graduated probably got some money right now. I told him I did. Told me to look into investing in oil companies that were in the Bakken up in North Dakota. Which at the time not much going on. Thought whatever I'm 18 I need a new truck instead. Well 2006 they hit up there, I would have been a multimillionaire before I graduated college. Could have been retired essentially before age 30.