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Today is my birthday. So yes, today’s letter will be about me and me only.

JK JK. Ever since I turned 26, I hate birthdays.

Something about being over 25 really hurt.

I know, anyone older than me is going to say, “you’re soooo young, it’s fine. You have many years ahead.”

Which is facts, but ya know I just don’t wanna hear it and hard to put things in perspective sometimes.

Today is my 28th birthday. I was going to force my girlfriend to memorize Zach Bryan’s song “28”, but given last week’s article I wrote declaring Dave Portnoy’s win over Zach Bryan in the beef, I had her revert to performing “Ice Ice Baby” by the one and only Vanilla Ice.

It was beautiful.

So, should I just take the advice of the preachers saying “I’m so young” and write a letter to my younger self about what I’ve learned over the years? Nah.

Lessons I’ve learned from this past year? Nah.

Should I write about my goals for 28 and get super personal with you all? Nah.

That being said, my only goal is to channeling that inner DAWG mentality I wrote about months ago and wherever that brings me, I will be happy.

Hmmm, I am not trying to be annoying here and tease the rest of my article, I genuinely have some writer’s block.

I have some solid ADHD so you’re seeing it firsthand.

Let me listen to my favorite song of all-time by Kenny Chesney that’s perfect for the feeling old birthday spirit, get inspired and I’ll come back to you…

Now I feel like I need margarita, and I’m ready to write.

Okay, got it. I have 28 Birthday wishes and here they are…

28. Win all four of my fantasy football leagues I play (I was removed from one from one for reckless banter this past weekend) 🏈

27. Drake Maye continues to progress for the Patriots as THE GUY. We draft the best lineman in the draft 2025. Sign another star linemen. Sign Bengals WR Tee Higgins. Draft a stud WR in the second round. Grab a couple more DAWGs on defense. Hire Lions OC Ben Johnson as our head coach (sorry, Mayo). Super Bowl.

26. Grow The Quick Snap Podcast into the #1 sports show in Boston (Blake Griffin was our guest this week)

25. Heli-ski out west in Colorado ⛷️

24. Break 80, if I don’t before 29, I’ll quit golf forever 🏌️‍♂️

23. Hit a Hole-in-One (my buddy hit one a few weekends ago and it was beautiful)

22. Join Bob Does Sports for a food challenge stroke play match

21. Win free Chick-Fil-A for an entire year. I think I would order the OG sandwich with extra Chick sauce 7 days a week and twice on Sunday’s

20. Somehow randomly get selected to go on stage at a Kenny Chesney concert, sing my favorite song, then Kenny gets a mild cold and sore throat so he can’t perform the rest of night, and then I am chosen by the fans via an encore cheering session to perform the rest of the concert

19. Celtics raise Banner 19 🍀

18. Someone cleans up my IG and X algorithms

17. Heal my horrific back pain (see I am not that young)

16. Grow Danny’s Diary into 500K email list where all of the subscribers become best friends, and we have fun events and party together

15. Find a cure to Boston traffic (hovercrafts?)

14. Overcome my fears of dogs

13. Start making comedy movies that are actually funny again

12. Write one Diary article without a grammar mistake in the next year

11. I can come up better Diary ideas each week that actually make a difference for people!

10. Poppi comes out with a new flavor that rocks

9. Celtics, please raise Banner 19

8. My hangovers stop getting worse 🍻

7. Netflix doesn’t mess up the NFL Christmas Day games like they did the Tyson/Paul fight

6. We have record-breaking snowfall this winter ❄️

5. Notice how the wishes have gotten shorter? Didn’t realize how many 28 was and now running out of ideas

4. Oh, here’s one. Please share this newsletter with a friend 🤝

3. Office lunch is Cava today 🤞

2. Family Guy is hopefully on Comedy Central for the next 24 hours, nobody bothers me and I watch every single hour of it right into Thursday Night Football where I hit my weekly 4-leg parlay

1. Everyone reading this has God damn beautiful day 💗

I will be taking note of all the readers on here that do not reply to this email saying Happy Birthday. Thank you and see you next week!

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