Matt DaCosta

36 holes on the Cape anyone? The Club at New Seabury in Mashpee, MA

Sometimes this world wears you out and leaves you cynical … and then you see a moment like this and realize there will always be more good than bad.

Nik Khamenia, Welcome to the Basketball Capital of the World (Via nik.khamenia/IG)

@rationalyankee This, to my great dismay, is very, very true.

Hal Steinbrenner is never selling the Yankees. Hate to break it to everyone. It makes zero financial sense for him to do so. George Steinbrenner paid $8.8M for the Yankees in 1973. The franchise is worth roughly $11B today.. That is one of the greatest capital appreciation trades in American financial history and Hal is doing everything in his power to never cash it in. A sale today generates a $9.4B taxable gain and a $3.5B tax bill at blended federal and New York rates. Hal isn’t writing a $3.5B check to Uncle Sam. So he’s not selling. The Steinbrenner family will borrow against the franchise instead. Loan proceeds aren’t taxed as income income. The interest is deductible. The asset keeps compounding. You’ve unlocked liquidity from the appreciation without triggering a taxable event that would cost you $3.5B. The Yankees did $705M in revenue last year and reported $7M in EBITDA. A business generating $705M and barely breaking even is not mismanaged. It is managed precisely. Every depreciation schedule, every interest payment, every deductible expense is sheltering income that would otherwise get taxed. The accounting losses are a feature. Hal will pass the franchise to his kids at a stepped-up basis and they will run the exact same play. Think of it this way: Hal is sitting on an asset worth $11B that he effectively inherited for free. If he sells, he hands $3.5B to the government. If he never sells, he borrows against it, lives off the proceeds, deducts the interest, and eventually passes it to his children at full value without anyone ever paying the tax. The Yankees payroll debate is a distraction. Hal isn’t running a baseball team. He owns a generational wealth vehicle that just happens to play baseball.

@DearS_o_n Of all the things I was blessed with, having great parents is far and away the most impactful. My father was a great and principled man. I hope I get to see him again in the next one.

Be brutally honest. In your next life, would you want your dad to be your dad again?

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I have a great deal of respect for the men that we compete against in the arena…We battled. They won. 👊🏻

“We’re fighters. It’s not appealing to everyone.” “May even be off-putting to some of you in here.” “But for us it’s a life & death battle.”

Tarris Reed Jr. in March Madness: 31 PTS | 27 REB | 3 AST 10 PTS | 13 REB | 3 BLK 20 PTS | 5 REB | 4 AST | 2 BLK 26 PTS | 9 REB | 2 STL | 4 BLK 17 PTS | 11 REB | 5/5 FT Legacy run.

The Greatest Corner Speech in Boxing History...

The Shot through Husky eyes

That obviously is not a complete overview of performance. Underperformance is a relative assessment all you gave were results. Here is some important context for you. These are all their seeds for those results. A dufus would not understand relativity. Well I admit, I typically am one, you shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house....

@thBookOfMatthew @FDSportsbook nice try dufus

Dan Hurley is the KING of college basketball 👑 What would you change here? 🤔

@Norsk2u @Coach_Hickey5 Go Huskies!!

@thBookOfMatthew @Coach_Hickey5 Two great passes. Bray went to the spot. Both players processed info fast and made smart decisions. Strong fundamentals increase ones odds. They don't all go in. But that one did!

AK with the perfect pass. Mullins doesn’t have to adjust it at all. It’s aligned in the shooting pocket. And pretty cool watching this thinking it could have been the last thing AK did in a husky uniform. Trust your teammates

You are cherry picking your data. Duke was up 7 with 11:30 left. And up 2 with 3:30. Tell the whole story. Up 7 with 11:30 and losing is not a choke. UConn battled it out...they do in fact seem to own College Basketball.

Duke led by 19 with 21:07 left. Duke led by 17 with 16:58 left. Duke led by 14 with 13:32 left. Duke led by 10 with 6:08 left. Duke led by 9 with 4:49 left. Duke led by 5 with 1:31 left. Duke led by 2 with 1 second left. But UConn owns College Basketball.

17-3 in the NCAA Tournament since

@Djoko_UTD This is amazing. Reminds me of the Maddux/Bonds video.

The Moment Agassi shocked the world by telling how he read Becker’s serve.. The Details 🤯

@JoshuaSteinman Well said.

Here’s the thing: if California had even somewhat competent leadership, every smart, high agency person in America would live here within 12 months.

@CollegeFBPortal Legend. God bless!

NEW: Providence HC Bryan Hodgson with a LEGENDARY quote in his introductory press conference: “If you ever wanna question my recruiting abilities just look at my wife Jordan." 😂