on January 6th, 2010 by Dinged Corners
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on January 6th, 2010 by White Sox Cards
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on January 6th, 2010 by PunkRockPaint
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on January 6th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on January 6th, 2010 by Tuff Stuff
Just a few quick thoughts on some of the recent news in the world of sports.
The new year brings with it the end of the great career of pitcher Randy Johnson.
The future Hall of Famer hangs up his cleats with 303 victories, five Cy Young awards,
4,875 strikeouts and is one of only four pitchers to have more than 125 wins in both
the American and National Leagues. Congrats on an amazing career, Cooperstown here
you come.
Gilbert Arenas will likely found out today how long he’ll be suspended by the NBA
for bringing several handguns into the Wizards locker room. Apparently, Arenas brought
the guns into the arena as a joke to try and intimidate a teammate who owed him several
thousand dollars from a poker game. Apparently the teammate wasn’t ponying up the
money he owed and Arenas thought it would be funny to bring in his arsenal of weapons
in an effort to move the proceedings along a little bit quicker.
After the bone-headed move became public, Arenas apologized for a lack of judgment
and stated that he only brought the guns in because he didn’t want to leave them at
home where his children might find them around the house. What?? This guy makes more
than $12 million a year and he can’t afford a gun locker? If you make that kind of
dough and you have guns you need secured you should build a guest house near your
residence just to keep them away from your children. It never ceases to amaze me how
when athletes are busted for doing something stupid, they almost always say something
even more stupid when describing their actions. Most of them have a team of PR guys
who guide them through situations such as this but apparently Arenas got his staff
at the same place he got the guns because if that’s the best they could come up with,
they, and not the guns, should be the ones fired.
Look for Arenas to be suspended for the rest of the season once the long arm of the
law – aka David Stern – gets done with him. And that might be getting off easy.
Speaking of stupid, did you hear about how the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers celebrated New
Year’s Eve? After a storm forced the team to spend the holiday in Calgary, the team
whooped it up at a local establishment and then threatened to walk out without clearing
up the tab after they weren’t given what they felt should be the “customary” 50% professional
team discount. The Oilers ate and drank their way to a $16,796 bill and then claimed
they shouldn’t have been charged full price for liquor bottles they opened and drank
straight from the bottle before returning the unfinished portion. They claimed they
should have been charge bottle prices for shooters and ultimately left the restaurant
paying $12,381, or more than $4k less than what they owed.
We’ve all received a bill at the end of the night that exceeded what we planned on
spending when walking in. But when faced with a situation like that, we all dig a
little deeper and find a way to settle up. We don’t start going through the tab line
by line and start begging for special discounts. The team has a combined payroll of
more than $50 million so I’m sure if they all pooled together their resources, they
could have settled up without issue. And perhaps paid the bill in full like everybody
else would have.
In hobby news, the top-10 list for NFL jersey sales was announced recently and seven
of the 10 making the list were surprise, surprise – quarterbacks. The list included
signal callers included Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Tony Romo,
Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger. The real surprise was that Troy Polamalu was second
on the list despite missing 11 games this season and Adrian Peterson was fifth on
the list and that rising star Chris Johnson didn’t make the list at all. C’Mon Nashville,
step it up. Another surprise, Jason Witten rounded out the top-10.
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on January 6th, 2010 by T.S.
While I poke around this a.m. waiting patiently for the Hall of Fame
announcement later on, I thought I’d take the opportunity to plug some of the work
of one of our favorite artists, Arthur K. Miller.
“Bride of Frankenstein”
2009
20-by-24 inches, acrylic on masonite
As readers of Sports Collectors Digest are fully aware, Miller’s
elegant work portraying many of the greatest players in baseball history has been
gracing our covers for more than a decade. When I heard he had his own exhibition
at OK Harris Art Gallery in New York City, I wanted to mention it even if only a segment
of our readership would have the opportunity to actually visit.
I wasn’t even surprised to learn that the exhibition was entitled: Arthur
K. Miller – Classic Horror; Movie Monsters from the Golden Era, since I had talked
to him a long time ago and he told me about his venture into this area.
I doubt if I could improve on the promotional text so I won’t try: “MONSTERS!
VAMPIRES! WEREWOLVES! Come witness, if you dare, spirited living-color portraits
of classic HORROR movie icons from an earlier black-and-white cinematic world!
See melodramatic paintings rendered in stark, painterly realism, richly executed in
acrylics! Frightful images so lifelike you’ll need to keep telling yourself, “It’s
only a painting, it’s only a painting.”
The exhibition runs from Jan. 16 to Feb. 20 at the OK Harris Gallery
on Broadway in New York City, and the artist will be on hand on opening day from 3-5
p.m. to throw out the first pitch, in a manner of speaking.
Obviously, Miller’s spectacular work can be accessed by going to the
gallery website at www.OKharris.com,
where all these monsters reside, or you can go to Miller’s own site, www.artofthegame.com and
have a crack at the monsters and his incredible baseball work.
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on January 6th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
Redemption cards can be one of the biggest pains in The Hobby today. A majority of the time they are used to act as substitutes because the manufacturer couldn’t get a certain card inserted into a product on time before they had to ship it out. Sometimes they are used for extremely rare cards and [...]
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on January 6th, 2010 by Captain Canuck
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on January 6th, 2010 by White Sox Cards
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on January 6th, 2010 by tigre
Randy Johnson, is a first ballot hall of famer. Just look at the stats… 303 wins, 3.29 ERA, 100 complete games, 37 shut outs, 4875 strikeouts, 10.6 SO/9 Innings, this guy is a freak of nature. Sorry Tim Lincecum, you’re not this much of a freak ye…
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on January 6th, 2010 by Captain Canuck
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on January 6th, 2010 by Dinged Corners
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on January 6th, 2010 by JT
Today is the day a bunch of guys who believe in the old adage “the pen is mightier than the sword” get to decide who should be immortalized forever in Cooperstown. And today is also the day a bunch of us guys who know better than those guys are going to complain about their decisions. [...]
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on January 6th, 2010 by Dan
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on January 6th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Today is a very big day.
In just a few short hours, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will announce their class of 2010.
And if everything goes well, Andre Dawson will finally be tagged as a Hall of Fame player and get his spot alongside the greatest players to have ever played the sport of baseball.
How [...]
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on January 6th, 2010 by chemgod
I think a lot of us out there were expecting to hear this news quite some years back. Today though Randy “Big Unit” Johnson has called it a career. He had a 22 year career and any pitcher who can pitch until they are 46 deserves to be in the Hall of Fame regardless of [...]
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