Start with me not in the shot, and just be trash can banger, and then come down to me. Alright, so this breakdown is very mean. I don't want to do mean breakdowns, but we're just doing what people request. Michael Taylor is like the worst game imaginable. He goes 0 for 5, and then commits the game ending error.  So, there's not even much to say about it, because it's just like 5 strikeouts. Like, what do you say? But we're going to give it a shot right now. Test, test. Here we go.  Going to be a rough day. Curveball strike 1, fastball 94 right down the middle, swing and a miss. Fastball right down the middle 95, swing and a miss. But Michael Taylor's going to charge it, oh my god. He's trying to charge it to keep the runner at third, because that's a tying run. He ends up missing, it goes all the way to the wall, and Pueig rounds the bases for the walk-off, little league home run. And the worst game imaginable gets worse for Michael Taylor. But, there's no but actually, because it was just bad. He said, it's just a tough day. 0 for 5, I can handle. I think I did it. I think that's it. Imaginable really threw me for a loop. That's fine. But, there's no but actually, Gord, to go ahead and run. I say but, because I thought the World Series was coming up. I forgot I had more. Get good claim on one of the worst days in baseball history. Congrats. So now that's at 227, which sucks, because Twitter's 220. Facebook's, that's annoying. So, what should I name this one? Michael Taylor goes 0 for 5, with 5. Strike out, then loses the game with an error.  I mean, that's exactly what happened. But it just feels very mean. Feels very mean.  Now Michael Taylor hates us forever. Boom. So the modem, not the router.   And Jakey IT, department. Power cycle, dude, the router. Power cycle it or reboot it? Reboot. Click the button below to re-boot it. It looks like I'm rebooting it. I'm rebooting it. Okay. Yeah, I'm just seeing the light. Yeah. See, all smashing waves. Got lights flashing. Lights, lights. Copyright, counting in. It's going slowly. Yeah. Time downloading. 15%. Three minutes left. You just guessing? Yeah. Okay. Because it's just a bar. Let's say... 25. I think this is 50 right here. Oh, come on, break 50. 50. 50% 51, Bernie Williams. 53, that's 53. Okay, this is 75, we're saying? Copy a brain. No, that's way more than 75. That's 75. No, it's not. You took four of those. Thank you. You just did it. You just did it. No. You just did it. You just did it. You just did it. I wanted... I really wanted to get the length of the X in there. 69. Nice, David. Nice. It's such a mean video. 75. So this is 99. Yeah, it's like... Oh, wow, huge leap right there. That went from like 75 to 80. Oh, 99%. Hit. Hit. Hit. The Cuban national team was doing exhibition gaming. It's a Rockland boulders. It's a nine thing.  The umps make a weird call, though, so like, bad call, but I don't think you can gang up on the umps like this. It's kind of funny. One, I'm just scared shitless. I don't blame them. And you can read his lips pretty good. Let's see what we got. You called him safe. What's he got to do with it? He goes puppy dog, crooked head, look at him. Very sad. And he's just like, that's horrible. You called him safe. You called him safe. What's he got to do with it? Because he thinks the home plate umpire overruled it. Maybe, but he didn't. Nice. That's contact. Just go. Let it go. So a lot of contact was made with this ump. They get escorted away for a little bit. Rockland, they just do some high fives because they've won. Great call. And then they high five each other because it is a game of sportsmanship. After all, I think that's one taker. How funny is that? That's contact. This guy just screaming it. Tom says no. He's going to go to his other umpires. Much better. Even if it's funny how it goes blank for a little bit. That's contact. It goes empty. That's contact. Good editing job. Just go. Let it go. The let it go is so funny. Let it go. So usually like let it go is like a calm thing. So a lot of contact was made with this ump. Thunder, lightning. The way love is frightening. I'm going to pee. Want to take a thumbnail first? Yeah. Pee before every show. These are old blades. Thumbnail taken and gassed. I'm respectable staring right at you. Lousy with stature. But then with all democracy. I'm blowing my dough and going. Deluxe and dare I be? Ain't I pretty? It's my city. I'm the king of New York. King of New York. Okay. From the movie Newsies. Are we ready to go? Ready when you are, I think. Middle camera? Yeah. Middle camera to start. Sub-patrons. Today is June 16th and baseball is still on fire. But we've got a bunch of voicemails that we're excited about. So let's do it. Let's talk yanks. What's going on everybody? Two talking yanks. My name is Jimmy and sitting next to me is Jake. He's currently got an underbeard made out of a mask. We both have very red noses today. Jake got some sun. I have a wildly raging pimple coming through. And we're going to talk some Yankees. First, very important update. We're getting a TV and studio. Come with us. Come with us. That TV is going to be there. And then we're going to see Trevor as we record. And guess what? When we look at Trev, we'll be talking about baseball.  MLB's burning it all down just to spite the players. Now I have to become a TikTok star.  And now I'm going to have to dance my way to the top. I'm your private dancer. Dance. Those are the words. I don't know what he's saying. No baseball probably. I'm at like 90% no baseball. I think we're still doing the dance.  Why are we? Because I'm a dancer. What's the date? 16th. Yesterday was June 15th. Rob Manfred went from unequivocally saying there will be baseball to saying he wasn't sure there will be baseball. I'd like to remind everyone baseball is fun. Jump on the media store, we'll get one. And yesterday was the best day in baseball history because baseball is coming back in a big way. Bottom out, you've got to find the bottom to find the top sack. Tell the people that. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to John Moyniak Radio. Today is Tuesday, June 16th. That was the intro song by Bubak and the Summons. I forget the name again. But Bubak and the Summons is great. Further into the blues. Speaking of it is Tuesday. How are you holding up? It's Tuesday. You nailed it. I'm doing great, man. I'm doing great, man. Little food poisoning last night. My favorite sport that is currently covering two-thirds of my clothing items. The commissioner saying it's unlikely they'll play. Trav, can you hear us? He can hear us. But I don't think you... Do you guys have... Can you guys hear... Do you hear this? No. Got a pretty tit shot of BBD right now. Hold on, though. We need... We need this to go... Yeah, you got to set up your audio stuff. Trav's got a clap. Then we're going to play the intro music. Yeah? Gave you a little boost there. Yeah, thanks. Appreciate it. Some people... Give a couple more and your hands are above the mic. Trav, what's your circumference? You want one? Just, yeah. How it would be labeled. I got you. I got you. Okay. Doesn't look like this, then? Nameless. Should have seen the guy at City Field. You ever heard that story, Trav? We were peeing at a bathroom outside City Field.  Like inches, like they were this close and it was just like shaking his dick right at him.  And I saw it. And I was like, oh, we walked out of the bathroom.  He was like, oh, I know. I know. Big time. Yeah. He didn't say a word either. Just no words exchanged.  What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to Talking Baseball. My name is Jimmy. Sitting next to me is Jake. Corner of the room, we got BBD. And in California, we have the one and only Trevor Plouffe, who just turned 34 years old. That is correct. Went out to a nice dinner, had a nightcap afterwards. All in all, it was a successful day. I even made it back home in time after my dinner, played a little online poker with my crew. Trevor, I want you to turn that frown upside down, although you and Tony Clark do share the same birthday. Happy birthday, Tone. How was your day? But yesterday was a great day for baseball. It's one step back before you take two steps forward. It's death before something is reborn. I kind of love this camera view of me. I'm, uh, I'm generally well. Highs and Bs. Cherokee. I could have been a confused wife. What happened was Jake pulled out the chair so we could lean back. Luke stole his chair. Did not even lean back. Not leaning back. Didn't know you could. Would it make it better or worse if you stole your chair and leaned back? And then I'd appreciate it. That's... It's like paying respect. Those chairs also plug in and you can give yourself a little massage. What? Yup. Thanks for calling in and talking baseball. Thanks for calling. What do you got? Making a voicemail line so we can have callers talking baseball. Thanks for calling. What do you got? To the point. That's like an 8400. I'm fine to leave it at that. I think... What's the talk in the ice one? Do you even know? We do voicemail episodes every Tuesday if you're calling in. That's probably what you're looking to do. There's a deal. We're not being rude. But we don't even click play on voicemails over a minute long. Keep it nice and short and tiny and you'll be on the next show. Thank you. No games. That's long. But... 20 seconds. The one minute time stamp needed to be set for talking baseball. So I used to call in with like three minutes long. Dude. Should I say that we're talking baseball too? I should. You don't actually have it. Take it under one minute. We don't even check it if it's over one minute. Short. Sweet. To the point. We're excited. Thanks. Sounded so... Knocked. Do we really care? That was like so condescending. Yeah. We're excited. Thanks. Yeah. I was just trying to be quick. This is what happens when you leave voicemails. Like your own outgoing message. You do it so many times. Thanks for calling.  Talking baseball. We're doing voicemail episodes. We want to hear what you got to say. Try to keep it under one minute nice and tidy. Let's go.  We're using that one. That one's like a 96. 96 out of 100? Yeah. Cool. I'm labeling it under one minute. Jake. No. Under one minute. Jake. The Jake's story, Ellie's story. Call in. Jeff Passing. What's happening? You're passing. Major League Baseball has sent a new proposal to the MLB Players Association sources tell ESPN. No deal is done. Fuck. But with Rob Manfred and Tony Clark having met, this has seen a significant process considering where the parties were 40 hours ago. So who's got the report? Hyman. Heyman. Yeah. Did I say that right? You're passing. That was bad news to him. That's just not the best news. Let's do a video. Okay. Where are the treats? Where's Jeff Passing Street? That I just read. Run standing. Come on, you're exciting. Motherfucker. Okay. Luke the Tallest guy in the office. Yeah. Okay. Ready? Are you recording? There is not even a deal in principle between MLB and MLB Players Association. But one involved person said with Manfred, meeting face to face, the rhetoric portion of the program is over and the real negotiations have begun. Where's the video?  There's no deal. That blows.  Post this video. Send it to me. I did. I'm going to send it to you. Thanks. People need the meter.  I'm going to stomp around. Now we're just going to scroll Twitter all day. I was about to call Trev up like we need a pod. Right. Got her 20 throws in. This is an official ball. Yeah. Scratch it up nice and good. They know the league must get full pro rated other issues. No agreement. Okay. What happened after that? Yeah. MLB PA? What time was that? 301. He said it's balls. They're saying it's not. They just said like no agreement in place. Okay. So they're just saying the reports are false. And then can you still bring these up on your computer? Yeah. Like the actual wording. We can paraphrase a little because we need to be under two minutes. It's been a wild afternoon for baseball fans. Joel Sherman reminds us of what's important throughout all this.  And where does that leave the fans?  Sounds good. Okay. The unison shrug hands up. So Manfred just put out a statement. Right after recording that video at 345, Rob Manfred wrote a statement that said yes, I did meet with that dude Tony Clark and we did talk. And that's basically all his statement said. Which again leaves the fans. Jeff Passen was happening. The proposal from the players to Major League Baseball 70 games. I'm assuming, and I've been negative about this now, that the owners will come back and say, no there is a deal. Look what they've done to me. I'm normally a happy boy. I think this is good. Jake's up. Me and Jake have been opposites. But he was right last time when he was happy and I was upset. I hope I'm right because I'm happy. This seems good. It seems natural. They say 60, MLB says 60, players say 70, 65. I have no idea what to feel. This is a weird sandwich. I'm more stressed out about this. It's like a chicken sandwich with maple syrup on it. I think the bacon is maple bacon but very, very, very strong maple bacon. It's so sweet to be a sandwich with cheese, in my opinion. The owners are going to come back and be like, we had a deal. I've just seen no sign of them being amicable. So I'm hopeful for that. The last two offers have been moving. Closer. Yeah. Make it a video, make it a picture of a video or a video of a picture. This is going to be moving. We're going to be getting free. Yeah. That's pretty good, right? Welcome to the studio. This is my office. Can you, we got to throw that light on, that'll help this show.  Honestly killed the cat. Who ordered the foot long? Happy birthday. Is this birthday? I didn't tell Jimmy that it was your birthday. Happy birthday. Hi, Brendan Cutty. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. You guys never met? No, but I recognize David from Twitter. Wow. Big baby. It's high praise. Throw the intro out there. We are joined by now recurring guest. Brendan Cutty of the NJ Times. I feel like we always, we always screw it up. Did we get it right? Definitely not the NJ Times. NJ.com. We may have figured out the technology. Look at this. That looks dope already. Make sure that the speaker changed at the front panel. And changed this. No. And changed this to Ron David. Or yeah, that. That should be it.  Whatever. They just need to be able to see Trevor. This should be... Trevor. Like that. And then we can see what baby is showing the audience to. Up top. Or you can just move that camera closer. I mean like, all this. It's too much of this. Can you hear us?   I wish you could see this. Our setup's legit, brah. I'm going to text you a picture of what this looks like. And then I'm going to text you a picture that just stays between you and me. What? It's...   It's got a nail on it. Look at the rest of it. What's going on everybody? Welcome back to Talking Baseball. My name is Jimmy. I got Jake sitting right next to me. Trevor Ploof on the big screen. He's coming to us from California. And BBD in the corner. It's unfortunate. How is nobody else in the room? Yeah. How is nobody else in the room? Nobody took notes? The following up. Statements are so dumb. Issuing statements accomplishes nothing. Furthermore, we also find the plethora of repetitive statements to be meaningless. And in bad faith. And void of any... I'll do that at the end. Repetitive. We find the repetitive statements to be meaningless and void of any... Value. Value or substance. Sure. All we want is baseball. We are so close. To be played. So close. We are so close. We are so close. Do something in good faith. Do something in good faith for the first time. Do something. Okay, no, no. We respectively are asking each side to do something in good faith. That's us. Statement. Statement made. First John Boy Media statement. That is our first statement. It's a statement. Trevor. We've been licking this and passing it back and forth. Don't tempt us.  I declare I am ready.


Hello there everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swish and I thought it would review the market. So just so you know, an option trade for the people and the options letter on Friday in the pre-market. I called the 282 to buy the 282 spy calls expiring April 5th, which is this Friday and the trade dropped fell recovered until the close but was down on Friday Up into the clothes, which some people were down a little break even anyways huge Huge move up than tonight or this morning in the gap up from Friday night to Monday Created a nice big rally and left here in the market as well And I'm telling you right now It was this was a great call to see that the market would do that to call the options trade out in less than a week But also to just even see the market would do this whole thing. So I'm gonna do two different videos here. I'm gonna do a separate video on the market I'm gonna do just a video here for the options traders in this trade If you are still if you got out of this today, fine I mean I think a lot of people get out of this today was up more than a hundred twenty percent in the morning And then it continued rallying to the close whatever people made in this depending on how you got filled on Friday If you got out of this today, fine I said, you know, you can hold it if you want to Because it could continue higher And be a really big trade although this is a big trade right in here if you held it in the clothes Because we got up almost to 287. It was 286 something. So this is you know $4 plus for the strike. It was yeah 286 16 was on But if you are still in this if you first of all if you get out of it Good job Congratulations. Nice day. I think people should have held it They got out of in the morning too quick. I think it was a little too quick of an exit But anyways long story short If you're still in it You really have to watch it tomorrow as far as where we gap in the morning because We could continue this rally But it doesn't mean it'll happen right away is out of the gate tomorrow morning In other words, I don't know if we rally immediately right out of the gate like we did today So I'm just telling you like if you've decided to hold this trade and you did the trade And you're in the letter you got to be a little patient with it now to get the to get the gains Let me just look at this here and now I mean there's nothing really reporting tomorrow morning That's gonna really necessarily Influence the market here. I mean, we're just we're just we're holding this here tonight Close to 285 89 we're 285 85 so We're basically just neutral But if you consider this move, it's a pretty substantial move here And I'm saying if you want to hold it for the big big trade Dream target in this trade is 290 and by Friday, and I'm not saying that happens for sure But I'm saying it could I'm saying it's possible. I'm saying it might so What should be eight dollars for the straight? What what a nice call so congratulations to everybody that at least held this into the close If you get out of it this morning get out of it away too early you got to have conviction and particularly in the calls I've made in the market. I mean if you're gonna hold any trades at all that I call to any Solid gain or big number a dream target if it should be my calls in the market this year for 2019 And I've called great calls the market in 2018, but in 2019 I mean this was a really good solid call here and we'll really see what we happens tomorrow So good luck everyone if you're still in it But I'm telling you you're gonna have to be patient tomorrow And that's what I'm trying to say And if you are patient enough to stay with the trade all day today and knock it out into the close Then you can be patient enough to wait it out for the next big push And if you can't then you should have got out of it today So you got to know really where you're getting out of these things Anyways, we'll see what happens. Have a great night everyone I congratulations to everyone in the gap options newsletter if you'd like to sign up for that newsletter It's 4999 a year 5 ready year and well worth it worth every single solitary dime So good luck everyone


In an address to a set of MBA students at Columbia Business School in 2000, Warren Buffett, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO, said, Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not very many of you will do it. In this video, I will be sharing with you the 13 books recommended by Warren Buffett, known to be a prolific reader and who is presently the world's third richest man. 1. The Intelligent Investor Warren Buffett was 19 when he read famous Wall Streeter Benjamin Graham's book, The Intelligent Investor. According to Warren, that was the luckiest moment in his entire life because the book gave him an intellectual framework for investing. He further affirmed that to be a successful lifelong investor, insight information, business insights and stratospheric IQ are not enough. You must possess a robust intellectual framework for making wise decisions and also the emotional intelligence to restrain your feelings from destroying that framework. This 1949 book prescribes the proper context and Warren recommends that every investor and potential investor reads it, especially chapters 8 and 20 which he asserts as the bedrock of his investing activities for over 60 years. 2. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing T. John Bugle, the founder of Vanguard and a low-cost investing evangelist, wrote this book. In the words of Warren Buffett, investors will be better off spending time with this book than listening to investment managers. Warren Buffett agrees that Bugle's assertion that most advisors are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. 3. The Most Important Thing Eliminated Howard Marks, the chairman and co-founder of Oak Tree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunities and risks. After four decades spent ascending to the top of the investment management profession, he is today sought out by the world's leading value investors and his client memos bring what insightful commentary and the time-tested fundamental philosophy. In a 2011 Barron's review, Howard Marks' chairman and co-founder of Oak Tree Capital intended to wait until he retired to write this book. But Buffett so admired Marks' client's memos that he offered to write a dusk jacket blurb if Mark would publish the book sooner. The result, according to Warren Buffett, is Howard's Marks' The Most Important Thing Eliminated. A book Warren refers to as Rarity, a useful book. 4. Dream Big Buffett recommended this book at the 2014 annual Berkshire Hotway Shareholder meeting. In this meeting, Mr Buffett speaks about virtually anything. And during a Q&A session with investors, he talked up 3G Capital, a Brazilian-founded investment firm he joined forces with to buy H.J. Hens for $23 billion the previous year. Mr Buffett recommended that investors read Dream Big, a book about 3G written by Christian Correa, a Brazilian reporter who had followed the firm as it arranged ever bigger acquisitions. Primarily available in a Kindle version, the book was sold in the exhibition hall of the Berkshire meeting. Ms Correa noted that Mr Buffett's recommendations carry significant weight, that she had sold all 300 copies of the book on sale. 5. Security Analysis There is no more influential investor on Buffett than former Columbia University Professor Benjamin Graham. Buffett once said his investment philosophy was characterized 15% by Phil Fischer and 85% by Benjamin Graham. He noted that Graham was the most significant influencer of his life, more than any other man except my father. Buffett once said and I quote, Security analysis provided a roadmap for investing that I have now been following for 57 years. The book by Benjamin Graham lays the foundational principles of value invested, highlighting that through thorough analysis one can determine the value of a company and see whether or not the market is appropriately classifying it. 6. Stress Test, Reflections on Financial Crisis This book was written by Timothy F. Gettner and published in 1934. Buffett says that the former Secretary of the Treasury's book about the financial crisis is a book that every manager ought to read. Although lots of books have been written on how to manage organizations through tough times, almost none of first-hand accounts are staring a wing of government through an economic catastrophe. Warren Buffett describes this book as sensational with the exact statement, Tim's book will forever be definitive work on what causes financial panic and what must be done to stem them when they occur. 7. The Essays of Warren Buffett The definitive work concerning Warren Buffett and intelligent investment philosophy, this is a collection of Buffett's letters to shareholders of Beckshire Hathaway written about the past few decades that together furnish an enormously valuable informal education. The letters distil, in plain words, all the basic principles of sound business practices. They are arranged and introduced by a leading apostle of the value school and noted author, Lawrence Cunningham. In his words, Warren Buffett refers to this book as the book I autograph the most. 8. The Clash of Cultures, Investment Versus Speculation This is a book written by Vangad group CEO, John Bugle. This book explains the changing culture in the mutual fund industry, how thinking has invaded the national retirement program, and the need for a federal standard of fiduciary duty. Mr. Bugle has not been merely an eye witness to these changes, but one of the financial sector's most active participants. In The Clash of Cultures, he urges a return to the common sense principles of long-term investing in his 2013 letter to Beckshire Hathaway shareholders. 9. Where Are the Customers' Yachts Where Are the Customers' Yachts was written in 1940 by Fred Shude, an investment professional. In this book, Fred Shude Jr. demonstrates a very humorous style of writing about the craziness of the market at its participants. Some of the most silly emotions that we all experience while investing in the market are mentioned in this book, mostly through humorous and witty examples. In the 2016 Beckshire Hathaway meeting, Warren Buffett said that he had read this book when he was 10 years old, and he urged attendees to get it from the bookstore. 10. Limping on Water My 40-year adventure with one of America's outstanding communication companies In Beckshire Hathaway 2015 meeting, Warren Buffett said, My friend Phil Bilt has written Limping on Water, a chronicle of his life at capital city communications. Capcities will forever represent the gold standard for ethical corporate behavior accompanied by incredible financial performance. Tom Murphy and Dan Burke, former capital city and ABC TV executives, were the architects of these two achievements.  This book is a personal recounting of Bilt's journey from a boy who has cerebral palsy, his family struggling to make ends meet, to a top media executive. 11. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Phil Fisher wrote this book, and its first publication was in 1957. Buffett praised Fisher's work, saying, I am an eager reader of whatever Phil has to say, and I recommend him to you. More specifically, Buffett says he is 85% Graham and 15% Fisher. Buffett suggested that investors who make this binary distinction are demonstrating their lack of understanding instead of aptitude. If you are looking to read a book that helps bridge the gap of knowledge between a value investor and a growth investor, this is a great place to start. Fisher's approach is deeply rooted in the idea that intangible factors can produce enormous impact on the long term value of standard stock picks. 12. Poor Charlie Almanac, The Wet and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger This book by Charlie Munger, Buffett's longtime business partner and vice president of Beckshire, offers a treasure trove of financial knowledge in form of speeches and essays. In the words of Warren Buffett, an amazing 3,500 of a collected wisdom of my partner, poor Charlie's almanac was sold. This mean a copy was sold every 9 seconds, and the reason is that you will never find a book with more useful ideas. Word of mouth recommendation caused the first printing of 20,500 copies to sell out, hence a revised and expanded edition will be on sale soon. 13. Mytek, A Global Success Story, 1981-2011 Mytek Industries Inc., a supplier of engineered products for construction, is known as one of Beckshire's very successful subsidiaries. This book tells the story of how Mytek, which started out as a small Midwestern firm in 1955, went from being on the verge of financial collapse to becoming a dominant supplier in its industry. In 2011, Warren Buffett wrote, You'll learn how my interest in the company was originally picketed by my receiving in the mail a hunk of ugly metal whose purpose I couldn't fathom. Since we bought Mytek in 2001, it has made 33 tuck-in acquisitions almost all successful. Successful men do not get successful based on their intelligence. They learn from the stories of others. When Warren Buffett started his invest in career, he would read 600, 750 or 1000 pages a day. How many pages do you read in a day?


good morning you guys it's our first day in italy we're here for three days three days so this is our first full oh my god there's already a cat there's been so many little kitties oh my god there's been so many cats here oh she's feeding for my attention oh my god she's actually letting you pet her most of them won't it's probably a house cat oh my god what a cutie yeah i saw her stare at me oh joe she will wrap up on you oh my god she's so friendly what a cutie let her come to you because you don't know what she'll do oh she wants to kiss but as i was saying so we just got here and we're on the almalfi coast in this spot called maori and it's so beautiful here like it's actually insane like right now we're just walking down for my airbnb and when we booked the airbnb we had no idea there was gonna be like a million stairs to climb up just to get to the airbnb the place has like a really really beautiful view but like we counted how many stairs we had to walk up yesterday and it was like 400 and something stairs like you said 487 or 20 seconds yeah it was like 400 and something and it's insane you would think that that many stairs is like not that big of a deal but once you actually have to walk them like every day a few times a day it's actually crazy it's not even down that's the problem it's up yeah and the good thing we didn't really bring like a big luggage for this trip we just brought one carry on and then we brought our backpacks because we're just traveling for a week from portugal but if we had like a big luggage and if we all had a big luggage like a 50 pound luggage there'd be absolutely no way that we would be able to bring that up these stairs like i don't i think it's actually almost impossible at least for like us we have to plan our whole day around the stairs because you can't just go up and down like we are all like pretty fit and like and it's hard like we work out almost every day and we like this is hard for us and that says a lot so it sounds like i'm over exaggerating but i'm not yeah when we first got here and we had to climb these stairs with our backpacks we were all completely drenched in sweat like it was gross especially because it's so sticky when you're hot yeah and it's like humid and hot oh yeah and then we were talking to somebody yesterday because i didn't film last night because we were just drinking and then we went out for pizza but we went to the best pizza place and the guy was telling us he lives up here as well and he said that there's no other way to get up on the stairs like you can't drive and he says he has to carry his groceries up here and he's like yeah by the time you do it like and live here you get really used to it and your legs just like adjust which makes sense but for us it's just like crazy we just got or we just found this little cafe it's called oh it says right here cafe Marcel and it's like one of the only like little cafes in the area we found this other one but they didn't really have a seating spot so we came back to this one because they have like chairs and stuff outside but you guys the prices here are like so cheap like for a croissant it's just like two euros and like a little breakfast is like two euros you get so cheap here i guess because we're not really in a touristy area which is nice it's just like not everybody like speaks english so we're really like immersing ourselves in the culture you guys this is the huge b oh my god it is so scary it does not even not look as big as it does on camera because i'm too scared to like get too close to it but oh my god it is so big and scary we just finished our little coffee actually these are big coffees these are cappuccinos and it was so good and then we had nutella croissants and me and joel got like a few pieces of toast jam it was so good and then croissants had like a little bit of like a lemon flavor and we're thinking that like it's probably because there's so many lemons here like it's so beautiful there's like just like these huge lemon trees that grow like hundreds of lemons on them and it's so pretty so they probably just use those lemons and everything and everything just seems like so fresh here like the pizza was just crazy i think we're gonna go to the same pizza spot that we went to last week but get the pasta that's there and i'll show you guys that tonight's section vlog yesterday but it was so good and we're definitely probably gonna take a pizza to go home like we're gonna pizza every day regardless i already had a peaceful piece this morning there's so many of these little three-wheeled trucks here and they're so cute like they're actually mini the cab is so small but there's so many people driving them and they're so cute we just got ice cream i got strawberry and it's like it's really good but it's not like it's like it's big of a comparison from like the pizza if i'm making sense like you guys agree why are you why are you comparing the gelato to the pizza no she's saying like there's a big difference between the pizza here and thank you yeah there's a big difference between pizza here and mancubra versus ice cream here yeah i for gelato it's like so good and italy but like this kind of tastes like it's really good don't get me wrong but it kind of tastes like something i can get in another gelato store but it's good and they add this cute little waffle thing on the top big stone they added this cute little waffle bought these sunglasses because mine fell in the ocean and i just really wanted another big pair of sunglasses so we just bought these but now we're just going to go back home because we've done something wait why are we going back home we're going to the supermarket okay we're going to go to the supermarket now seriously he's also going to be there at five to take our oh yeah so when we when you come here there's something called the good tourist tax where it's like a dollar fifty i don't know if that's for three nights or if it's for like our whole stay but you have to pay tourist tax i'm not sure what's that like exactly four but our airbnb host is coming to collect that so we got to be home for her just like look at how beautiful the city is it's so crazy but yeah so we're going to go home to just meet with her but like once we get home we can't just come back easily because of the stairs so i think we're going to go home get ready for dinner and have like an early night and then obviously come back out later think about the stairs so i thought that i would just show you like what i mean so that you guys don't think like we're just over exaggerating so madison is going to take us going up the stairs i'm going to do a little time-lapse so you can see how far it is like from the road like from street level because we're literally all the way up there okay stair number one you guys can count you're covering the camera girl this is our halfway mark this one's scared oh she wasn't having we are here literally sweating so we kind of domesticated a cat like wanting pets so bad like watch and so we opened the door and she came right in and she is just loving the pets and she's literally roaring like she's just purring so loud and she's just the cutest little bean and she wants pets so bad there's so many stray cats here it's actually crazy actually i don't really know if they're like completely stray but if they just roam the area and people feed them or actually i guess that it is stray but yeah i have no idea if she has an owner or not but she just came right in and she's loving she's beaming for these pets right now so we just got ready the sun just came out these are the fits for the day my set is from revolve madison wears this year from um h&m and we're both decided to wear a little bit of a green moment today and we have a bottle of champagne to celebrate italy and it's finest beauty and the stairs that we have to climb up every day we deserve an award because our calves are shaking or my calves are shaking at least what are your dirty comments in the background i don't know if you guys can hear that but there's literally like church bells going off in the background they go off like every hour like even late at night they're going off someone's orient them down there but anyways cheers to italy 2023 i don't even know how to pop a bottle so that stops there there's a peel tip i didn't shake yet you know that's a good little pop cheers we're having a pour a little glass now on this cute little table that we have on the patio guys we are currently walking to la terrazza it's supposed to be a good um pastor restaurant we've never obviously tried it before but we're just really hoping on the google reviews here but last night the google reviews did not let us down because we found the most amazing pizza place so we're just gonna go here for pasta and then we're gonna get pizza again tonight we're just gonna do pizza every single night that we're here because it's just too good like i don't think you guys understand i'll show you guys tonight but we're gonna do pizza every single night so we're gonna get tonight plus the pasta but we're just trying to find the pasta shop right now but yeah we made it to la terrazza we got a little bit of wine we got half a liter for the table they gave us some little bread baskets but no butter it's kind of raining dry bread with breadsticks it's kind of weird like where's the butter but anyways madis can order gnocchi and then i ordered that kind of venera and we're going to share because they're gonna decide which one to get so we're just gonna like share them soon um but yeah i'll update you guys when we get the food so you know how it is we're at the italian pizza place that we came yesterday again again after having pasta after having pasta because this is our second dinner because it was just so good yesterday that we was just like we have to come back and we have to have a second dinner because we wanted to do pasta but like we had to do pizza again here because it was just too good like i don't think you guys understand like the pizza back home is like just not formulated with the right ingredients so it's like doesn't taste the same but like once you come here it's formulated with the right ingredients so it just tastes like so amazing it's the quality it's the quality of ingredients like the tomatoes are fresh the pizza the pizza sauce is fresh the gluten is like flour fresh and you just can't get there that anywhere else the flour is freshly freshly picked when i took my first bite it was just like a miracle in my mouth guys we're literally in the streets of italy like it's we're in the street it's like we're in the corridor of the streets right now okay you guys you need to take over the vlog oh that's okay so guys no wait for this pizza i don't understand we're in italy we're in a town called meori um but we want you guys to comment your favorite place than the kala has been so far in this trip because it's been a long trip and then you know they've gone a lot of places they've had fun they've been to we're going to go to more places right now we're in italy but we're going to go to more so we want you guys to comment your favorite one leave a comment it's good for the algorithm you know did i just say something what we got the pizza oh this is the new one he didn't cut them that's good look at that oh my god that is just i just want to rip a little piece for myself right now we can't cut them hey guys it is the last day that we're here this is the little dress of the day it's from me and then madison's just wearing a black tube dress there's apparently a thunderstorm warning for today so we don't really know like when that's gonna come so we're just gonna get like a little sweater and hopefully it doesn't start down pouring on us because that would actually suck but i looked at the weather supposed to start at like three what kind of sucks it's on our last day here but we'll see what happens we're just gonna go down now to the cafe have breakfast and then just do our day and then i don't know like it's just gonna depend on the weather i guess but we're gonna get another pizza though maybe for lunch like let's just go and dinner i think i know we've got it we've got to try like even that place we've bought it yeah there's like a lot of bakeries here maybe every corner there's like a bakery and everything looks so good so we just want to try like a bunch of things like honestly just eat so much food today and then i don't know if you could do a boat tour or something but like the weather is not really going to be nice today so it's kind of like we don't know what to do like our airbnb host came and she put down the envelope she's like it's going to be storming today so we don't know okay we just got some lasagna that is already destroyed and then we got some gnocchi and then what's that again calzone calzone and it's so good me and madison are sharing the lasagna because like it was a really big portion and like the things here are so filling because it's like just pot like um carbs carbs it's so filling but so good it's literally cheese and carbs everywhere here we already ate it i forgot to film before but just like imagine a really good lasagna and gnocchi and this is the little bakery that we got it from that is it and it's so cute we were just walking and we saw these huge ass lemons like those are like big lemons already and then we saw these ones like look at it in comparison to my hands like a mini soccer ball yeah like literally a mini soccer ball like how is this even possible like wow that is just so weird how do you even eat that you must have to use it for baking or something so it's like a lot of lemon that is insane the water because it is so nice and we really want to go swimming because it's kind of hot today but we didn't bring our bathing suits which kind of sucks because we didn't really like think about it yesterday it was kind of just like the weather was not there swimming let's be a thunderstorm today yeah i don't know but apparently that's not coming until three like i don't know if that's actually accurate but there's a thunderstorm warning i already said that but we want to go swimming but those stairs we can't just go back up them and come back down and then go back up them again it's like not functional so we think that when we go for dinner we're just gonna like bring a bathing suit and then we can just go after dinner because that's like the most practical but yeah we'll see if the water is just looking so nice today and this walk along the water is so nice we didn't do this yesterday because we were more like in the town but it's so pretty and it's really hot today which is really nice we ran into some cats been walking up the stairs and oh my god this is like a 10 out of 10 loaf over here and this paw placement is too good they are so cute looks like a male it's so cute i made it up the stairs i just got dressed for the beach i think i'm just gonna wear these jean shorts maybe like a shirt over it just for the walk there but we get so sweaty anyways and it's a pretty hot day i'm just scared that we're gonna get down to the beach and then it's gonna start thunderstorming so hopefully that doesn't happen and we can actually go swimming but it would kind of be a vibe to actually swim in like the thunderstorm when it's like raining but the walk up would not be fun so we'll see i just like crossing my fingers hope that we can seamlessly just go back down and swim because we were gonna just swim when we went for dinner later but it's just i feel like not gonna be the vibe because we're all gonna be like in our nice outfits and we're not gonna want to change it's gonna be like colder so since the water is pretty cold it's like more important to swim when it's nice and hot so i mean we have to swim we have to feel the water here we can't not go to the beach and swim but anyways so that's what we're doing we made it up the stairs it honestly wasn't as bad as like the last time that i did it so i think my legs are adjusting a bit and the guy said that you get adjusted pretty quickly and i feel like i am like maybe a little bit i was still sweating but it was a lot better like it didn't feel as long as like the previous time but yeah so we're gonna go down to the beach and hopefully it is in thunderstorm kind of rocky though which sucks but the water is really really really nice and as well as cold as i was expecting which is nice yeah the boys are just playing in the water we're just chilling we kind of want to watch the stuff when we're here because we don't want us to get stolen so we're just kind of staying on alert here because we met this guy who said that he got robbed twice in 20 minutes and that was in napoli that was in napoli but like you never know so i'm just like keeping an eye on our stuff over there because we have like our wallet and our phones so it's better to be safe than sorry because we can't i don't want to be all swimming at once and then you know be a little bit too much to lulu be dumb and then get our stuff stolen so i'm just keeping a little it's so nice and so hot okay so here's a little airbnb tour it's actually the morning right now but i wanted to show you guys before we leave all our stuff is out there and we're just getting ready so you start in here this is the door there's a cute little lamp out here and you can see all the windows from the outside they live out there um but yeah it's a really cute little house and then you walk in here there's a little tv a little table and the kitchen is actually really cute i really i don't know what like the pattern of it it's kind of like old style but still kind of like modern ish i guess and the tile is all throughout the house and it's so pretty there's a little mini couch which is really random but at least there's a little someplace to sit here and the living room in the kitchen is just kind of one room here but it's all like you're in the house much anyways so it does the job and then they also have a little umbrella in case it rains and then you turn the corner there's a big long hallway and then there's two bedrooms the first one is right here tile again so cute all the bedrooms have like basically the same bed and the same night tables and then there's two little lamps here little table there and then they have these gorgeous curtains and windows which the windows just like open right up if you want but the view you guys like during the day and like later in the morning is so pretty when like the sun rises fully because it's like so bright but yeah you basically get a view from the room and i love the curtains on the window like it's so cute just a little chair in the corner and then a whatever you want to call this and then just some hooks behind the door so that's bedroom one it's actually pretty decent size and i don't know what size this is it's kind of like in between the queen and king but it's pretty big then you just walk out of the room down the hallway to the right is the bathroom which is so nice like you can take a shit and have this view this view is insane from the bathroom like when you're sitting on the toilet right here you're literally looking out into this view but the shower is right here and then just some towels there and this is the little mirror and sink it's a pretty small area here that there's not really any storage which kind of sucks like they can definitely put the thing underneath here but still super cute has a blow dryer too but yeah just a little cute little bathroom with a really nice view so here is the second bedroom you walk in it has the same bed same night tables it has a little cute cave thing over the bed which is so cute and then it has a dresser and then one of these things again we just have our towels in the corner but um a chair and then this one has a view as well not as nice as the other one but it's still so beautiful and then it has curtains again which i love like just that little touch makes it look so like such like a moment over here look at that but it's so cute and yeah that's a second bedroom they're actually really decent sizes


Our final inductee is Dr. Kevin Manning. Dr. Manning has served as president of Stevenson University since 2000 and has announced he will be retiring following this academic year. His support of Mustang Athletics has resulted in expansion to 27 varsity sports and Stevenson becoming a leader in NCAA Division III, including a national championship in Men's Lacrosse in 2013. Dr. Manning has been a staple on the sidelines from day one, but he's not just been a fan where he's cheering on the sidelines. He's been instrumental in the campus, the buildings, everything that you see here. The stadium, the gymnasium, the future plans for Rosewood, the future plans for Owings Mills North, and the future of our growth in the athletics, not just growth for overall enrollment, but growth for the institutional values, institutional experience on campus and everything from football and homecoming and open house, the Hall of Fame, all under our president's direction. The category that Dr. Manning is going into, the Hall of Fame, is a special category created by the Hall of Fame Committee and it's a very unique category. It's a very rare category. It's called an emeritus category. Now, emeritus in higher education means a faculty member who is retiring or in this case a board member or president who has made major impacts at the institution and the major impacts he's made in athletics has been tremendous. The emeritus category, which is unique, is the highest honor of the Hall of Fame and is deserving and President Manning has been synonymous with the growth of the institution and very much synonymous with the growth of the athletic department. There is no president that I've ever experienced on all the college campuses that I've visited, both as a coach or administrator that is engaged at the grassroots level with our students. He encourages them to pursue excellence. He is very engaged in helping them learn new values, new techniques, new strategies. He understands how to build the community together. Victory or Mustang, that is a staple of our success, was certainly President Manning's idea, which also tied together community and to wrap all of these four core values that he introduced to our university is the one that I see in him every day and that is excellence. His portrayal of excellence and his expectation of excellence for everybody on campus, including athletics, it's so prevalent in every time you see him and every time you work with him or he asks you to work with him. It's tremendous. Dr. Manning took a special interest in our teams in showing what he had learned about sports psychology and you'll see some affectionate terms that we will use in our perpetuity of the 12-foot Mustang and to be 12 feet tall. Victory is 12 feet tall. Our stories and those athletes who know the help that he's given, which he introduces the 12-foot Mustang and the 12-foot belief in each of our athletes to approach the game in that way, that's the involvement that he's had and he did it at a personal level. I know the athletes that I've worked with both in coaching basketball and the national championship team cherish that involvement and so we believe in 12 feet tall as Stevenson and President Manning is 12 feet tall. It is my honor to welcome Dr. Kevin Manning into the Dick Watts Athletics Hall of Fame. Thank you very much and I'm really honored. I'm going to introduce my wife Sarah who's here and my three kids Elizabeth and Megan and Kevin Jr. and then my two grandkids Jake over here with the bow tie and Emma and my son-in-law Harry from Philadelphia so welcome. Thank you for coming. I'm a little reluctant to do this but I am dedicating this talk tonight to all of you, all of the athletes that are here this evening. This is really not about me but I thought it would be meaningful to you if I did this so I'm going to kind of see if I can take the entire time to give the talk and if I can I'll kind of abbreviate it. In his speech what it takes to be number one, Vince LaBarde says every time a football player goes to play his trade he's got to play from the ground up. From the soles of his feet right up to his head every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads that's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business but more importantly you've got to play with your heart with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart he's never going to come off the field second. I stand here tonight with my fellow inductees and I am humbled.  You've played with your heads. You've played with your hearts. I don't consider myself to be an athlete and I'm certainly not a Mustang athlete but I am the Mustang's biggest fan. Vince LaBarde is one of the most recognized names in the history of American sports. A football player himself before turning to coaching in the 1960s he led the Green Bay Packers to three straight and five total NFL championships in seven years. He certainly knew what it took to be successful. It strikes me that much of what LaBarde said can be tied to Stevenson's core values of community excellence, integrity and learning. Furthermore we can reaffirm our values by looking at how they are played on our athletic fields. First community, LaBarde said people who work together will win whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society. Stevenson values community. We embrace our common bonds and respect our individual and cultural differences. Sports allows for teamwork and competition with and between people and groups of people who might otherwise have nothing to do with each other. Think about your teammates. Did you grow up together, study the same major? Your greatest common bond was probably your love of the sport. Thus you performed as a team, as a community, to achieve success and those skills carry over to life. As LaBarde stated, when we work together society wins. The second value excellence, excellence we salute superior performance while recognizing the importance of tenacity. LaBarde said perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Tracy, Holly, Fran, Anthony, Wade, Peter, Adrian, the members of the 2005 six men's basketball team, you're being honored tonight because you seized excellence. You epitomize excellence and I hope you've found that your relentless drive to achieve perfection well that Stevenson has carried out to career and life success today. And next integrity, when talking about winning, LaBarde said winning is not something it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. And that's what integrity means to me. Integrity is doing things right all the time. At Stevenson we expect this kind of behavior. We expect members of our community to act with dignity and honesty. Let's not forget our characters are built on what we do in the dark when no one is watching. As integrity relates to athletics, we don't skip practices because our bodies are aching. We don't yell at officials when the calls go against us. We remember our drills and our coaching when the games get tough. We respect our opponents. We stand tall. And when we do do these things, we win. Even when the scoreboard doesn't reflect that, we win.  We promote the pursuit of knowledge while encouraging a life well lived. I've been really pleased by the academic performance of students here at Stevenson University. And despite the countless hours devoted to practice and competition our student athletes achieve academic success at the same level as our student population as a whole. Stevenson students athletes maintain just over a B average which I think is impressive. I want to particularly applaud our female athletes when looking at the academic standings of our teams for the fall of 14 the seven teams with the highest overall GPAs and eight of the top 10 were women's teams. However this pursuit of knowledge doesn't just happen in the classroom. I wouldn't be surprised if many of you said you learned some of your most valuable life lessons by being a member of an athletic team. For example, you knew your place on the team and that may have helped you understand your role for your employer. Accountability to your team and accountability to your team matter as does accountability to your family and boss today. You learn the importance of hard work and your work ethic counts today. And finally you learn the value of perseverance. Which takes me back to Coach Lombardi who reminds us it's not whether we get knocked down but it's whether we get back up again. And I'll add whether you learn from your mistakes whether you persist. This is a bittersweet year for me. I have less than eight months left to serve as president of this fine institution and being your president has been my greatest privilege and honor. It has brought me joy. It has also brought me frustration and challenges to be sure but my overarching emotions are joy and pride. It's been an honor to be the president of Stevenson. That the Hall of Fame Committee chose to recognize me with inclusion in the 2016 Hall of Fame is a tremendous honor and means more to me than you could possibly express. My thanks go out to the members of the committee but my greater thanks are directed to every member of every team who has worn a Villa Giulia or Stevenson uniform. You've helped create an institution people want to support to cheer for, to be proud of. And I thank you for that. I leave you with this final last thought from Vince Lombardi. If you'll not settle for anything less than your best you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. Thank you very much.