Today in 1979, Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park goes off the rails when fans storm the field as local DJ Steve Dahl detonates records in the outfield. Chicago police arrest 39 and the White Sox forfeit the nightcap of a doubleheader with the Tigers.
IT'S 'HEAR, HEAR,' NOT 'HERE, HERE.'
IT'S 'SNEAK PEEK,' NOT 'SNEAK PEAK.'
IT'S 'EXACT REVENGE,' NOT 'EXTRACT REVENGE.'
IT'S 'BY AND LARGE,' NOT 'BY IN LARGE.'
THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA.
Mike Renfro, 71 today
The controversial "TD or NO TD" ruling involving Renfro in the 1979 AFC Championship
Officials ruled he was out-of-bounds, but officials' use of instant replay was not yet available — implemented in 1986.
The play became one of the key exhibits in the case made for use of replay.
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Rachel Robinson is 103 years old, widowed over half a century ago, never remarried, and has dedicated her adult life to preserving and building upon her husband’s legacy.
My first wife left me because I accidentally put a pair of clean socks in the dirty clothes hamper.
Any suggestions for sealing a wood deck on a flatbed? .. or just leave it natural?… trailer will be parked inside when not in use but wondering about protecting deck against age and weathering..
If you run a 4830 sprayer this tip might save you a ton of cash.
Both rear hubs took a dump at 1500ish hours. I religiously changed hub oil with synthetic Deere oil every 100 hrs in the rears and didn’t fill them all the way “per Deere bulletin” , also tried other brands of 85/140 with no luck.
New hubs oil still looked like crap after 100hrs , switched to this hd460 reverser oil and it comes out non burnt and looking nice. I only add about 1 1/2 or 1 3/4 qts vs the 2+ manual calls for.
Carvana made about $6,800 in profit on every car they sold last quarter. The typical used car dealer makes around $1,500. Carvana makes four times as much because the car is just the start of what they sell you.
About 85 out of every 100 Carvana buyers finance the car through Carvana. At CarMax, their biggest competitor, the same number is closer to 40. When you click "finance" on Carvana's website, they write the loan at one interest rate, then sell that loan to a bank or pension fund within days. They keep the gap between what you pay and what the bank pays them. That gap, multiplied across hundreds of thousands of buyers, is how they print money.
Then come the add-ons. An extended warranty. Coverage that pays off your loan if the car gets totaled. An insurance referral to Root, a digital car insurance company Carvana owns a piece of. Each one stacks on top of the same checkout. The car is the bait. The loan is the meal. Everything else is dessert.
This is why selling them your car at a price that felt too generous still works for them. The money they make on that trade-in shows up later, after the next buyer signs. They clean it up, sell it to someone else, and that someone else signs another Carvana loan.
This is also why they aren't going anywhere. In May 2022 they bought ADESA, a used car auction company, for $2.2 billion. ADESA came with 56 auction yards across the US. Now Carvana owns the auction yard, the body shop that fixes the car up, the trucks that deliver it, and the lender that funds the next buyer. Every step of that car's journey happens inside something Carvana owns.
Three years ago none of this looked like it would survive. Carvana's stock hit $3.55 in December 2022. They had over $5.7 billion in debt. The market thought they were going bankrupt. Then Apollo, a giant private equity firm, led a deal with their lenders that cut $1.2 billion of debt and pushed the deadlines out to 2028.
Last quarter they sold 187,000 cars and made $405 million in profit in 90 days. They joined the S&P 500 in December. Their market cap sits near $84 billion. Bigger than Ford.
The whole business looks confusing if you think of Carvana as a car company. The math gets simple once you see them as a lender that happens to deliver cars.
Been a busy winter. New #ChemFarm bracket designs, new rock box brackets, @AgZen_official brackets, NH3 systems new and refurbished, and today we are installing @CapstanAg’s new Select Shot Plus system for in furrow fertilizer application. Applies with the seed drop to reduce costs. A 2nd @CapstanAg system will control his spray system. Many thanks to the @CapstanAg team for helping us out with our first install of the Select Shot Plus!
@MaxROIFarmer I’m not into ball and stick sports like I used to be but if they leave will that be the final nail in pritzkers coffin? Or do we wait for him to leave for DC?
I’ll be first to admit, I thought this idea came from PP. After some digging around I found this lil nugget. Been around for awhile apparently.
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