What are the best sites for real estate investing?
It depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for the best sites designed to entice you to spend your money on high priced courses and bootcamps, there are dozens of self-proclaimed gurus and countless other sites designed to point you there in return for commissions. The online industry is pretty overrun with sites in this category. Buyer beware . . .On the other hand, if you're looking for a site that has democratized information in the real estate investing space, check out our community, http://www.BiggerPockets.com .BiggerPockets is a social network with over 160,000 members, with over 550,000 monthly unique visitors, well over 10k articles, hundreds of thousands of forum discussions and the top rated and reviewed investing podcast on itunes, The BiggerPockets Podcast - http://www.biggerpockets.com/pod.... The show gets over 20,000 listens a show and our 61 shows so far will provide you with a ton of incredible insight into the minds and businesses of ACTIVE investors.The beauty of the site is that it isn't about selling, but about providing a platform to help you learn through your peers, to help you network and best of all, to do actual deals -- which our members do regularly with one another. Oh, and it is free -- unless you want access to some additional tools. The educational content won't cost a dime --There are some good blogs in the space too -- do a search on the best real estate blogs and you'll find a few decent lists.Good luck!
How did the Yankees, Red Sox feud start?
I wouldn't call it a feud. But it is a hell of a rivalry. The history goes back to 1920. The Red Sox were an excellent team in the 1910s, especially after signing an excellent pitcher who also hit pretty good by the name of Babe Ruth. Meanwhile the Yankees were a bad team that did not even have it's own ballpark, instead leasing space from and playing second fiddle to the New York Giants. In 1920, hurting for cash, the Red Sox owner sold Babe Ruth and several other players to the Yankees, in part to generate cash to produce a Broadway play. The Yankees suddenly got very good and the Red Sox got very bad … for many years. The Red Sox failed to finish higher than 4th place from 1919 to 1938. In fact, the Yankees got so good that the Giants tossed them out of the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium was built.Up until the 1970s, the Yankees and Red Sox were rarely good at the same time, with the exception of some years during the Ted Williams eroa, late 30s through the 50s when the Red Sox went to a single world series, and had a few 2nd place finishes. This changed in the 70s when both teams were good with the Sox going to the World Series in 1975 and the Yankees the following three years. Both teams had some gritty hard nosed players such as the catchers on each team: Carlton Fisk and Therman Munson. There was a brutal fight between the teams in 1976. In 1978, the Yankees made up a huge deficit in the standings against the Red Sox and wound up tied, forcing a one game play off for first place which the Yankees won after being behind. The rivalry was on fire.Since then, the teams have often been first and second in the standings. They are now playing their fourth playoff series against each other. The Sox ended a nearly century long championship drought after coming back from a 3 games to 0 play off series deficit by winning 4 straight games in the 2004 playoffs.These are two frequently good teams in two baseball crazy towns whose games against each other are often high drama. Of course the rivalry is often about the fans more than the players. However it is great for the fans and great for the game.
Is it good practice to lift weights every day?
In 1999, I was a rookie with the Detroit Tigers. After a game, I strode confidently into the Kansas City Royals’ weight room, rested the weight bar on my shoulders and settled in for some heavy squats. I rocked my hips back and dropped into my form, feeling totally in control. On the way back up, I got stuck. I leaned forward and the bar spilled over my neck. More than 500 pounds went violently crashing to the floor and members of both teams turned to look.Luckily, nothing was injured that day other than my pride. It could have been much worse. I was over-trained; I had an intense weight training session the day before and was just coming off playing nine innings. “More is better” was my mantra, but I was naïve.At 23, I lifted heavy weights every day. Now, I lift three days a week. I’m not quite as strong, but I’m inching closer to that 500 pound threshold now that I understand the importance of rest and recovery. If I understood how the body repairs itself when I was a rookie, I would have been stronger, healthier, and a better baseball player.It’s essential to incorporate recovery days into your program so your muscles can adequately repair themselves, grow and become stronger. When we train with weights, we actually create small tears in our muscle fibers. Those fibers then repair and rebuild bigger and stronger while we rest. If you don’t build in that downtime, you break the muscle fibers down further reducing the chance for solid growth and increasing the risk of injury.If your ultimate goal is size and strength, avoid weight training, even targeting separate muscle groups, on consecutive days.Your body only builds muscle when you are not weight training. Trust the process, believe in the value of rest, and you’ll be significantly stronger as a result.