When I first started, I picked stocks by their cute symbols.
Probably works as well as any other strategy out there. And so easy.
Reminds me of my wife when we were still newlyweds and she hadn't caught on yet to the intricacies of baseball fandom. My favorite team, the Cardinals, traded Tommy Herr, a second baseman, to the Twins for Tom Brunansky, a slugging right fielder. I kind of liked the trade because the Cardinals needed a power hitter at the time, though Herr was a sparkplug who provided good leadership. But you have to trade quality to get quality, so I thought it was a good deal.
My wife was upset because she thought Tommy Herr had the cutest butt in baseball. "How could they trade him?" she exclaimed. She forsook the Cardinals in favor of the Twins for a short time thereafter, until the Twins traded Herr to the hated Mets, who she could not bring herself down to root for, even if they had the cutest butt in baseball playing for them.
Now, like everyone else in St. Louis, she is in love with Mark McGwire. |
