I hadn't been exposed to limited partnerships and the Securities Act of 1934. This stuff was Chinese to me.

It's every bit as difficult as what he's doing now. He simply doesn't know.

It has taken years and years and years of applying his talent and his mental desire to just get to the major leagues. And it just shows how fragile it is. You can blow it fairly easily.

Naturally most sportsmen who can make the transition have a fire in the belly. It's much like being a financial gladiator -- or an athletic gladiator.

For some patients, this represents a retention period of over 100 years. And the Sarbanes-Oxley act requires every public company to save every record related to the audit process, including e-mails, for seven years.

If we don't do something completely stupid like gut the Magnuson Act or release some toxic load, it looks like nature has given us this second chance.