Ask NotGraphs! (#28)

Dear NotGraphs,

My wife hates my fifth-place fantasy baseball team, especially after I traded Chris Sale for Justin Upton. Do I dare make Jurickson Profar one of my two keepers? Also, do you have any tips for how to travel back in time and convince a younger version of myself to attend a less expensive law school?

Many thanks,
Anonymous Emailer

Dear Holder of Unfathomable Amounts of Law School Debt,

Your wife’s feeling about your fantasy team are affected by a trade you made? Sounds to me like your wife should have a fantasy team! My wife knows nothing of Chris Sale or Justin Upton, and would be entirely unaffected by my trading of either (note to JRM: this does not mean I am trading Chris Sale to you). I’m trying to figure out from your question how your wife’s dislike of your Sale-Upton trade affects the decision to keep or discard Jurickson Profar. I am failing to come up with a sensible explanation, so I suppose my best advice to you is that you should make your Jurickson Profar decision by asking your wife what she thinks and then doing it. If she likes Profar, he stays. If she doesn’t, he goes. Hard to know what the best decision is without knowing more about the rules of your league or who your other options are, but your wife’s opinion matters more than mine, so you should listen to her regardless.

As for your second question… you’re telling me that if you went back in time, and could undo your law school decision, you would merely want to attend a less-expensive law school, as opposed to no law school at all? Can this be, or did your legal education stunt your imagination to such an extent that even in your best possible proposed scenario, you just want to have a little less debt but still be a lawyer, forget even pursuing an entirely different and far more sensible career path? This tells me you may actually like being a lawyer, which makes me a little afraid of you.

My time machine tip, assuming you are currently practicing law, is to ask (no, demand!) that your associates build it for you. Or at least have them do the research, order the parts, assemble the base, and leave it such that all you need to do is walk into the conference room, press a tiny little button, and then take credit for the whole entire thing. Although, if you’re going to enlist the help of your associates, it’s only fair to bring them along for the trip so that they can unravel their law school debt as well.

Good luck,
Jeremy

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