on February 11th, 2010 by Tuff Stuff
Congratulations to Paul Sherman who scored a 9 last week to Beat the Blogger’s total
of 6 and beat the field to win this week’s special Super Bowl edition of the Beat
the Blogger contest.
This week’s matchups are posted below soon so make sure you get your picks posted before
the start of the first game on Saturday.
Copy and paste our link and send it to your friends on Facebook, Twitter and
anywhere else so they can be a part of the action and we can boost our total list
of contestants, http://blog.tuffstuff.com/7thinning/
With the number of weekly participants slipping a bit the last few weeks I’m making
a call to action to all of our regulars to do some recruiting. While more people
means more work for the Blogger and more people for the Blogger to go up against,
I welcome the challenge and offer this challenge to you: If each player can recruit
10 new players and we can boost the total to 200 or more, I’ll triple the weekly prize.
So spread the word about the contest to all your co-workers, family and friends
and meet that goal and boost the prize.
Copy and paste our link and send it to your friends so they can be a part of the action, http://blog.tuffstuff.com/7thinning/
This week’s winners are posted below so check to see how you fared against
the field.
While I enjoy giving prizes to several people vs. having just one weekly winner, from
this point forward contestants will be asked to provide a tie-breaker on the week’s
last game so we narrow our winner down to one. Contestants will now b
e
asked to predict the total score from the last game on the list and the closest to
the actual score will be deemed the winner). I’ll also require contestants
to post their e-mail address with their picks so I can track down the winners
easier.
For those unfamiliar with the Beat the Blogger contest, the idea is simple.
The Blogger posts 10 matchups each week and then selects his choices for the winners
of those matchups. Contestants enter the Beat the Blogger contest by clicking on
the “Comment” section below the post with the matchups and then select their
own 10 winners. You can also designate one of your picks as a “Doubler” and
you will receive an extra point if you’re correct so don’t forget to designate your
“Doubler” pick and increase your chances of winning. If you Beat The Blogger’s
total and post the high score for the week, you win. The regular weekly
prize is an authentic signed 8-by-10 color photo of stars such as LaDainian
Tomlinson, Drew Brees, Marshall Faulk, Santonio Holmes, Gale Sayers, Catfish
Hunter and many more. From time to time, the Blogger will sweeten the pot for
the weekly contest so look for special prize packages.
This week’s matchups with Blogger’s picks in parenthesis
Saturday & Sunday, Feb. 13-14
NCAA Basketball
Tennessee at Kentucky (Kentucky)
Louisville at Syracuse (Syracuse)
Ohio State at Illinois (Ohio State)
NBA All-Star Game
East or West (West)
More points: Kevin Durant or LeBron James (Durant)
NHL
Ottawa at Detroit (Ottawa)
New Jersey at Carolina (New Jersey)
Philadelphia at Montreal (Montreal)
Atlanta at Chicago (Chicago)(Doubler)
Colorado at Los Angeles (Colorado)
Tiebreaker: Total points in NBA All-Star game (216)
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on February 11th, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
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on February 11th, 2010 by zman40
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on February 11th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 11th, 2010 by White Sox Cards
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on February 11th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 11th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 11th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 11th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
In 24 days Dan Plesac returned one of the nicest signatures in my collection thus far. This is the second time that I have sent to Mr. Plesac. The first time he took a bit longer to return my cards and he signed them in ballpoint pen – a BIG No No!! This time, they look incredible, and his unique looking [...]
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on February 11th, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
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on February 11th, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
You may recall that in September on Beckett.com (and on The Beckett Blog and in Beckett Football), we solicited submissions for a special 2009 NFL Season Preview card-investment contest. Essentially, we asked Beckett visitors how they would invest an imaginary $1,000 in at least five football cards for the 2009 season.
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on February 11th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
2000 Fleer – “Club 3,000″ – Tony Gwynn
Date of entry into “Club 3,000″ – August 6, 1999
The Story – On the road, and across the US border, Gwynn and his Padres teammates were taking on the Expos in Montreal. And in front of just 13,540 fans, Gwynn became a member of the ‘3,000 Hits Club’. [...]
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on February 11th, 2010 by Newspaperman
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on February 11th, 2010 by Newspaperman
So I tried to stay away from 2009 Bowman Draft as I’ve been bitten in the ass way too many times by draft products. But after hearing that the retail version of this product seemed to be loaded, how could I resist. PLUS, those pretty purple refractors caught my eye. Yes, I called a baseball [...]
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on February 11th, 2010 by T.S.
I’ll be watching the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics tomorrow
night, but I can’t shake the suspicion that the conventional wisdom about how to promote
amateur sports is woefully lacking. And just to be clear, I don’t think of college
football or basketball as amateur sports. Do you?
Even as I write this, I hope that America’s greatest hope on the mountains
in Vancouver, Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, isn’t yet another tragic victim of
the infamous Sports Illustrated Curse. Having appeared on the SI cover
of the Olympic Preview issue, an injury from a week or so ago has put her status in
question just as the Games are set to begin.
I always feel like the powers-that-be simply redirect the vast star-making
machinery that would traditionally works just fine with professional athletes and
hope that it delivers with amateurs who show up on the radar on a quadrennial basis.
That’s OK when an athlete like Eric Heiden comes along, but I think they need
to rethink their broader strategy when it comes to hyping mere mortals.
I have great sympathy for someone like Vonn, who reportedly refused to
get a an X-ray of the contusion on her right shin, presumably because a determination
that the bone was fractured would take the determination of her 2010 hopes to a different
level.
While I proclaim empathy, I don’t think any of us avowed couch potatoes
can truly understand what it would be like to train for something 40 or more hours
a week for so many years only to have the key opportunity to compete on the grandest
stage cruelly snatched away by fate – or the editors of Sports Illustrated –
if you’re given to embrace superstition.
A final note about Eric Heiden, the star of the 1980 Games in Lake Placid
who won a record five gold medals. I was on hand in Lake Placid for his sixth and
final press conference (one for each medal won, and one at the beginning of the games)
and I was in awe of the scale and silliness of it.
With literally hundreds of reporters seated in the auditorium of Lake
Placid High School, where the speed skating track had been created on the school’s
track and field oval directly in front of the school, Heiden dutifully handled one
inane question after another.
In fairness to the assembled fourth-estaters, there wasn’t much left
to ask somebody who had been center stage for a half-dozen press conferences in a
two-week span. What I did think was interesting was that while Heiden was being feted
for winning gold medal No. 5 in a world record time at 10,000 meters, a Russian guy
was still out on the track circling the oval. That seemed kind of cheeky and dismissive
of the Ruskie’s chances, but such was the prevailing cold war sentiment that chilly
February in the Adirondacks.
Oh, and a final note. My grandmother, gone now from this earthly plane
for 25 years or so, watched every last minute of the 1980 Winter Olympics, right down
to the interminable rolling of the credits from ABC’s telecast. Somewhere along the
way, the name “Thomas S. O’Connell” flashed by, and she was duly delighted.
I think we told her that it wasn’t me (O’Connell is a pretty common Irish
surname), but I don’t think she believed it. And I don’t think I expended that much
effort to disabuse her of the notion; I was, after all, the guy who used to tell my
friends back in 1959 that Giants infielder Danny O’Connell was my uncle.
Remember my motto: It’s not a lie if you really, truly believe it.
Let the Games begin!
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on February 11th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1982 Headline: Ozzie Smith Dealt To The Cardinals!!!
On this day in 1982, Ozzie Smith was traded from the San Diego Padres to the St. Louis Cardinals. Part of a 6-player deal, the 2-time All-star and 1-time Gold Glove winner was the focal point of the trade.
And as they say, the rest was history…
For the next [...]
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on February 11th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
Last night I received a question about these so called “Chrome Proofs” you see up for sale. They wanted to know if these are authentic 1/1 proofs from the manufacturer. The answer to that question in no. These were once base cards from a Bowman Chrome set, and then someone dissolved away the cardboard and [...]
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