his family donate a $100 dollars every time a Sox player hits a home run.

Being rich, says Snelius, tore apart his family. He rarely talks to his three sons, James, 48, Robert, 43, and Daniel, 39, and Snelius is not even sure of their whereabouts since kicking them out of the Westgate Valley homes he had bought for them. He is reluctant to talk in much detail about his sons’ personal troubles, saying only that they have had on-again, off-again drug problems, which preceded his lottery success but worsened afterwards. (Court records confirm that Snelius’s sons have lengthy criminal records—dating from both before and after their father’s lottery win—that include convictions for such things as possessing illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia, fraud, theft, and domestic battery. Efforts to reach the sons for comment were not successful.)

At first Snelius thought money could solve his sons’ personal problems. He bought each of them new, fully furnished half-million-dollar homes down the street from his, and he also gave them large sums—a total of about $1.5 million, he estimates—to start their own businesses. But there were strings attached. "I asked my sons to do three things: number one, go to church on Sundays—God is number one; number two, you get a job, go to work; number three, stop taking drugs." But, he continues, "none of it happened."

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/April-2007/Money-in-Chicago-2007/The-18-million-Dollar-Headache/

id throw all of my friends and family the deuces…. besides my brother and parents. id try to top that jet blue flight attendant at work…. and id go hide in my 5 million dollar house watching the sox and whacking off to tiffani thiessen.

though i would be tempted to buy season tickets for the scout seats.