Mister Consistency

How to get paid. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Former Major League Baseball player Bobby Bonilla turned 57 earlier this year. I hope he had a nice time.

But I suspect there’s another day each year he might celebrate even more heartily than his birthday.

That would be July 1, which is the day every year on which the New York Mets give Bonilla a check for $1,193,248.20 (or maybe a wire transfer; it’s 20…