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Where are we in the foreclosure cycle? To use a baseball analogy, I'd say we're probably in the middle of the sixth inning. We don't see foreclosure activity peaking until sometime in 2010, and we probably won't be down to normal levels of foreclosure inventory until sometime in 2013. Year to date, we've already seen about 2.3 million households receive a foreclosure notice. That's roughly the same amount we had all of last year. We're looking at nearly 7 million households that are past due on their loans or already in foreclosure. There...
...many of which smell suspiciously of price gauging. Now that the Nationals have secured the right to sign Strasburg, Boras is reportedly demanding a $50 million contract for his young client. This ridiculous sum is simply not the fair market value for a pitcher who has never played an inning of pro ball. Moreover, teams pass the cost of such inflated contracts along to the fans in the form of increasingly unaffordable ticket prices. Because Strasburg’s career remains largely uncertain, the Nationals can afford to—indeed, should seize the opportunity to—refuse...
Making these early results public is like ruling that the team ahead after the sixth inning has won the game, or declaring an election over when the sampling polls come in. So why make these figures public a day before they can be validated? Because Sunday is a slow news day, and the report of the box-office winner, almost always included in the day's top headlines, is free publicity for the movies cited as being the most popular...
...least one of them at home [on Sunday],” Brown said. “We played our hearts out on Saturday, and we were behind in both games. Coming from behind on Saturday in both games was really exciting.” Harvard staged sixth-inning comebacks in both contests to sweep the afternoon, 7-3 and 6-3.But the bats ran out of steam on Sunday, as the Big Green got the better of the Crimson in two low-scoring games. “It was a very emotional day on Sunday—last home games, Senior...
...numbers, with Stack-Babich and Rogers combining for 17 home runs while Douglas and Meehan hit .342 and .331, respectively.The Crimson fourth-years not only posted impressive statistics, but they also produced when their team needed them the most.Douglas drove in the game-winning run in the final inning twice, while Meehan and Stack-Babich each blasted walk-off home runs this season.“It was our last chance to make an impact,” Douglas said. “When we had a chance to come back in a game late, we were jumping on that...