Yeah, the daughter of a friend of my dadâs went to⌠Columbia, maybe? Some Ivy League school, graduated with a magna cum laude degree in Molecular Biology or something, and was the Ivy League womenâs golfer of the year. She graduated, went pro, and never made more than $50k/year, which is about what she had to spend on travel, coaches, etc. The dad (who was quite wealthy) floated her for several years and she eventually retired and was really bummed out about it.
Which makes sense, her dream hadnât quite happened. On the other hand, how much of a drag would it be to go to an Ivy League school, graduate with honors in a STEM field, be a league-wide recognized athlete and consider yourself a failure. I mean, damn. Brutal.
Thatâs the thing with these individual sports⌠there are limited slots at each of these tournaments and the league is not paying your expenses to get you to these tournaments even if you are invited to them⌠so unless you are winning, you arenât making much or even losing money.
As a team sport player⌠all your travel expenses are paid and you are given per diem. You can live as a bench warmer in any of the team sports league and still accumulate wealth because you arenât paying for much.
I was saying - top 60 player in the world and making about a million a year.
Mens current #19 has made about 1.2 million a year the last 2 years.
Grant Williams who is about the 200th best NBA player just signed for $13 mil a year.
The key would seem to be to get to the top 10 a few years and get far in the tourneys with the biggest purses. If not - becomes tough.
Yes but without the same level of physicality or constant international travel. Shelby Rogers just did an interview and said she showed up to Wimbledon for practice week and her bags didnât show up. Luckily she brought some rackets and a few clothes as carry-on but she said a lot of players have to borrow clothes and rackets when that happens. Then her reward was to lose to the defending champion Rybakina on Centre Court in the first round.
Okay, it was Bret Saberhagen who did the bleach super soaker at reporters (âit was a practical joke!â), and Coleman who threw the firecracker, but Bonilla was in the car, and the target was â get this â Eric Davis.
Baseball used to be so much fun. The Yankees in the Billy Martin era used to get hammered and get in fights with each otherâŚ
** Jeff Torborg showed up to multiple Par-Troy West Little Banquets when I was a kid. Not even Par-Troy West alum Joe Orsulak did that! Thanks, Jeff!
So, Iâm finally catching up on my LRA backlog as things have been kind of a whirlwind here in CO. But I really enjoyed this little work diversion from you. So, in a way, it was somewhat productiveâif not from the perspective of your employerâŚ
I learned a little something, first of all, I did not realize the Curia in the forum had burned down. I thought that was where Julius met his end. But my wife and I were in Rome in October and the Largo di Torre Argentino was not yet open to the public. So youâve given me another reason to go back, as it appears that was actually the spot where he was killed.
However, you did make one mistake in identifying some of the columns in the Largo as being ruins from the theater. The entire complex was much too large to fit inside the Largo excavation. As the article points out, the curve of the theater has been retained in the streets of the modern city. In the screenshot below, you can identify the location of the theater by the curvature of the streets in the red circle a good bit to the west of the Largo, which housed the Curia and part to the quadriportico.
Have a friend who lives in our building who had an apartment in Rome on one of those curved streets (forget if itâs the inner or outer). Canât wait to get back myself!
I messed up the explanation I wrote above, trying to explain Curia v Teatro (maybe I actually decided to do some work!)
I had a good pull up going left but could never do it well going right⌠would mostly try to get close enough for the jump hook going right⌠and then fake that and up and under if defense overcommitted
