Those Fighting Blue Jays 2011 Style

[JohnnySavage]

Don't forget, Blue Jays fans; the season opener is against the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Saturday at 2:00 p.m. ET.

Tune in and watch America's team swab the deck with those squid wannabes!

 

[KRCummings]

I thought you were joking about who they are playing. You weren't.

 

[trysail]

Hell, many years ago I played in an "away" game at King's Point.

That's the only reason I've ever heard of the place. It's a good place to start if you want to end up making a living as a pilot ( landlubbers won't understand what that is— it's someone with local knowledge who comes aboard a vessel to steer her through a confined waterway or congested port).

 

[thør]

Hell, many years ago I played in an "away" game at King's Point.

That's the only reason I've ever heard of the place. It's a good place to start if you want to end up making a living as a pilot ( landlubbers won't understand what that is— it's someone with local knowledge who comes aboard a vessel to steer her through a confined waterway or congested port).

Isn't Joe Hazelwood teaching there now?

 

[GiaCat]

"Blue Jays" that does not sound like a team of tough guys to me

More like an elderly ladies club out bird watching

 

[JohnnySavage]

I thought you were joking about who they are playing. You weren't.

I would never joke about the Fighting Blue Jays.

 

[trysail]

Isn't Joe Hazelwood teaching there now?

Apparently, at least according to Wikipedia, he was last employed at SUNY-Maritime ( his alma mater ).

 

[JohnnySavage]

I like ships. Years ago I owned a tiny fraction of a percentage of Evergreen.

I like trains too and have owned Norfolk Southern for years and years.

 

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[JohnnySavage]

This thread is code for Obama Lover

Did you move to Costa Rica yet? They have socialized medicine, you know.

 

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[JohnnySavage]

I'm within 3 years.

I qualified

Man... you're going to have to wait a year to get your mammogram down there.

 

[KRCummings]

I like ships. Years ago I owned a tiny fraction of a percentage of Evergreen.

I like trains too and have owned Norfolk Southern for years and years.

Remember Chessie System? Those were cool trains.

 

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[KRCummings]

We went to Costa Rica once on vacation. It was very nice as long as you stayed on the beach or had a guide. They got those real life jungles down there. You don't go in those alone.

 

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[JohnnySavage]

Remember Chessie System? Those were cool trains.

Is it gone? My office is on the Metro line and a CSX line. I think they should let me ride in the cab of one of those trains. I'll make a call...

 

[KRCummings]

Is it gone? My office is on the Metro line and a CSX line. I think they should let me ride in the cab of one of those trains. I'll make a call...

They officially don't exist anymore but I think they really just evolved into a current company. They were huge for a while.

 

[JohnnySavage]

We went to Costa Rica once on vacation. It was very nice as long as you stayed on the beach or had a guide. They got those real life jungles down there. You don't go in those alone.

Jungles don't scare him. I don't want to give away personal information, but I have it on good authority that his real name is Jim Rambo. Being a pasty navy snipe was just a cover for his covert operations... mostly in the engineroom bilges.

 

[JohnnySavage]

They officially don't exist anymore but I think they really just evolved into a current company. They were huge for a while.

Oddly enough, wiki says Chessie merged to form CSX. What a small world.

 

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[trysail]

I like ships. Years ago I owned a tiny fraction of a percentage of Evergreen.

I like trains too and have owned Norfolk Southern for years and years.

I bought my NSC shortly after they cut their dividend from $0.80 to $0.24 in 2000. The stock market hated that ( largely caused by the Conrail acquisition ) and was just puking the stock up.


In the late '90s, CSX and NSC agreed to buy Conrail and operate it jointly ( today, CSX owns 42%, NSC owns 58% ).


Eventually, everything turned out just fine and I damn near scraped the bottom with my purchase of NSC at an average cost of $13.04 per share. While this country is being brainwashed into hating coal, many parts of the rest of the world are only too happy to take advantage of our myopia and use this low cost source of electrons. As a result, NSC is running full trains downhill to Baltimore and Lambert Point as fast as they can. Today's annual dividend rate is $1.72 giving me a yield on my cost of 13.2%. Not too shabby; I wish all my purchases worked out as well as that one.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9f/Nsheadlogo.svg/250px-Nsheadlogo.svg.png

http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=NSC&t=my&q=l&l=off&z=l&a=v&p=s&lang=en-US&region=US
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[JohnnySavage]

The dividend is why I keep it. In the past year I've moved almost exclusively into bonds and companies that pay high dividends. I'm becoming either risk-adverse or lazy.

 

[islandman]

The dividend is why I keep it. In the past year I've moved almost exclusively into bonds and companies that pay high dividends. I'm becoming either risk-adverse or lazy.

That's AARP-speak for "old".

 

[JohnnySavage]

That's AARP-speak for "old".

Well, I am pushing 48