by Joe Lind | Aug 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every baseball season starts with optimism. Someone wins eight of their first ten games and fans start talking about October. Another team stumbles out of the gate and people are ready to fire the manager before the weather gets warm. Or a team is silent at the trade...
by Joe Lind | Jul 27, 2026 | Investing
Every summer, Reds fans become general managers. Should they buy? Should they sell? Should they stand pat? Every move gets analyzed before the ink is dry. The best organizations, though, don’t make those decisions based on emotion. They know where they are,...
by Joe Lind | Jul 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
Baseball has always fascinated us because it constantly challenges our instincts. A player hits .450 over ten games and suddenly fans are convinced he’s the next Hall of Famer. Remember when Ely De La Cruz was called up? Two weeks later, the same player goes...
by Joe Lind | Jul 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
A friend of mine told me a story too good not to share. A few Sunday’s ago, he and his wife were trying to figure out if the Reds played at 1:10pm, 1:30pm, or 4pm that day. As they went back and forth their 16 year old son piped up with “why don’t you just ask Joe?”...
by Joe Lind | Jul 8, 2026 | Investing
Every baseball season gets to that point sometime in July where everything starts to blur together. The excitement of Opening Day is long gone. The trade deadline hasn’t arrived yet. The weather is hot, the games seem endless, and even diehard Cincinnati Reds...
by Joe Lind | Jun 22, 2026 | Investing
One of my favorite things about spring is that every Cincinnati Reds fan suddenly becomes a baseball manager. You hear conversations everywhere about who should bat leadoff, who belongs in the cleanup spot, and whether some rookie who hit .400 in spring training...
by Joe Lind | Jun 15, 2026 | Retirement
Retirement is funny, just in a different way than it was in your 20’s and 30’s like we wrote about before. People spend decades imagining it. Then it arrives, and many realize they never really, actually thought about what comes next. Not financially as we have...
by Joe Lind | Jun 10, 2026 | Financial Preparedness
There is something different about nearing retirement. You can just feel it. For decades, the focus was simple. Save. Build. Accumulate. Then suddenly, the question changes. “How do I actually use this?” That shift feels bigger than most people expect. You go...
by Joe Lind | Jun 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Your 40s and 50s are where life gets real. This is usually when careers are established, incomes are stronger, and financial decisions start carrying more weight. It is also when life gets wonderfully complicated. Maybe you are helping kids through college while...
by Joe Lind | May 27, 2026 | Investing
Your 20s and 30s are funny years and sometimes not in a “ha ha” sort of way. On paper, everyone tells you this is when you should have it all figured out. Build the career. Buy the house. Start investing. Save for retirement. Maybe raise kids. Maybe travel. Maybe...
