on January 13th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
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on January 13th, 2010 by PunkRockPaint
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on January 13th, 2010 by PunkRockPaint
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on January 13th, 2010 by Scott
The Wall Street Journal reports on baseball cards, or sports cards to be exact, as an investment. Did you know they kept a Sports Card Industrial Average (like the Dow Jones Industrial Average), that is put together by Beckett? They do, and it has done quite well. Still think that sports cards can’t be treated [...]
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on January 13th, 2010 by White Sox Cards
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on January 13th, 2010 by madding
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on January 13th, 2010 by zman40
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on January 13th, 2010 by chris OK
Thanks to Nr Mt I got some new cards this week. A variety of players, set and team cards.Adding to my player collectiona BJ Upton mini – I must admit I like the normal back better than the Gypsy one already haveMy favorite of the lot – an 04 Topps Gol…
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on January 13th, 2010 by Dinged Corners
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on January 13th, 2010 by deal
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on January 13th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
During the Phillies Hot Stove Dinner last night, I won a Charlie Manuel bobble head. Every table had one sitting in the middle and if you were sitting on the chair with a baseball card taped to the bottom you were the lucky person to keep the bobble head. These were actually stadium giveaways the [...]
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on January 13th, 2010 by The Golden Age of Baseball Cards
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on January 13th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on January 13th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on January 13th, 2010 by T.S.
I know that according to the Chinese Zodiac, 2010 is going to be the
Year of the Tiger. Without succumbing to the obvious gag opportunities, I would suggest
that in America it’s going to be the Year of the Confession.
The almost equally zany worlds of politics and entertainment will, of
course, provide their annual drip, drip, drip of such mea culpas, but my reference
is more pointedly to the world of professional sports. I think Mark McGwire might
have just opened the floodgates.
My guess is that anybody who can do so without inviting legal peril is
going to step up to the mike and make official what most everybody has more or less
known all along. And hopefully they’ll do a little better job at it than McGwire,
who performed handsomely in conveying how awful he felt about the whole thing but
whiffed in a number of areas in terms of candor and believability.
Just as Big Mac did, everybody else is going to have to pick their spots,
but you can’t help but think that for most the sooner they come clean – no pun intended
– the better.
I liken this to Thelma and Louise as they started heading to that cliff
and the dark finish of that 1991 film. Take, for example, the 100-plus guys on the
“list” that the Major League Baseball drug testing regimen produced. If I were one
of those guys, I think I’d be pondering a way to get it out there, because I just
can’t imagine that list is going to stay under wraps forever. Frankly, I am amazed
it’s avoided the light of day for as long as it has.
I think those guys should ask MLB to covertly notify each and every last
one of them on the list and create an amnesty day – how about June 6, 2010 – and encourage
all 100-plus to fess up at one time.
Gee, the more I think about that the better it sounds for all concerned.
It’s huge national news, of course, but it’s remarkably blunted for each individual
simply because of the volume. The shadow is removed from the other couple of thousand
“clean” guys who played through the period, so I assume they’d be tickled with the
idea as well.
And from Major League Baseball’s perspective, it would serve to largely
close a chapter that’s been as close to Chinese water torture as one can imagine,
not that I am suggesting that waterboarding is torture. And I’m back to the Chinese
again, who deserve their own apology for the water torture reference, because apparently
there’s no historical evidence pointing to them aside from popular usage of the expression
itself.
I should add that urging those 100 ballplayers who participated in that
testing regimen in good faith with the understanding that the results would remain
under seal is a great departure for me. I have said all along that we have no right
to know who they are; my change of tune comes from the belief that eventually they
are going to be “outed,” and if that’s the case, a better strategy is to get out in
front of it.
Amnesty Day would naturally present the same opportunity for some of
the more prominent names ensnared in the steroid debacle – Mssrs. Bonds and Clemens
come to mind – but their eventual confessions are more complicated because of the
legal proceedings already underway.
And please, no scolding for the use of the expression “their eventual
confessions.” Just like Thelma and Louise, they have to know that the edge of the
cliff is out there waiting for them.
And there’s at least one other big-time sports confession to come …
in the Year of the Tiger.
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on January 13th, 2010 by Spiff
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on January 13th, 2010 by JRJ
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on January 13th, 2010 by Chris Harris
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