Jets Appease Sanchez Again

I heard on the radio that the Jets extended Mark Sachez’s contract, when he still had 2 years left.  They did it so Mark wouldn’t get upset that the local newspapers targeted the Jets as Peyton Manning’s future home. Mark got wind of…

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It was reported yesterday that Andrew McCutchen got a 6 year $52 million deal, my reaction was, why did he take it?  Now I know that the Pirates are in the beginnings of having quite a team in a few years, that being said, he might be in year four of …

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There has been a lot of talk this Spring Training that this is the year of Bryce Harper in the major leagues.  The card collectors are positioning themselves for it by loading up on $500 – $1000 cards, hoping for even more out of them.  I&#8217…

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This one is for Joe who sent me down a Twins jersey to practice on. It actually came out looking pretty good.  I still owe Rod and Joe patch cards for the jerseys that they sent to me to play around with to make these cards.  I’m still looking …

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I’m sure I’ll have to take this down in a day but I was sent this from someone in the know: Someone emailed this to me and I don’t know if it’s legit, but if it is I can only imagine what a card like this would go for  on eBay….

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Driving in to work today, I heard on the local sports station that the Steelers were going to release Hines Ward.  I have to say as much as it makes sense, I just wasn’t ready for hearing it.  Ward was the face of the Steelers for years, I real…

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Last year Jamie Moyer spent the year rehabbing.  He hasn’t pitched since July 2010 when he had to undergo Tommy John surgery. This season he was brought in as a non-roster invitee by the Colorado Rockies.  If he plays this season it would be h…

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It’s hard to believe at only 26 that a player might be done with baseball, but that’s the case with Joel Zumaya who has been pitching in the majors since he was 20 years old.  Through a series of injuries that rival Greg Oden’s, he h…

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I was supposed to review this box before the release date of 2/23/12.  Unfortunately it got held up at customs for an inspection and I didn’t get the box until Saturday.  As I do with every Box of In The Game, my wife and I sit down and play pa…

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I always judge how famous a player is by seeing if my wife knows the player.  Even though she is a Boston Red Sox fan (mainly to screw with me) she doesn’t know many players on the team.  See did know one player though and always asked how he w…

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Then he went and ruined it by backtracking.  I think there are even a lot of Denver fans that feel the same way about Tebow.  Let’s face it, the fans dictated the move, not management.  After training camp Tebow was third of the depth chart, s…

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I was looking to find a guy in baseball that I could write about making the leap to the next level.  My target today was Alex Avila of the Tigers.  Not only is he a good hitter, he’s going to get some nice fat pitches to hit this year with Detr…

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I love when guys like Mike Cameron call it a career.  Not that I want him to retire, but it lets people look at his career work and decide what kind of player he is.  Cameron played in the bigs for 17 years and for the most part played in absolute ob…

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As we were cleaning out my man room, we were looking at old baseball cards and noticed two major differences between them.    First of all, the pictures are less personal now than in the past.  Here is an example: Which one to you is more personable…

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It was my flex day from work today, so I made a couple of custom booklets and cleaned out my MAN ROOM.  My wife held my hand as I ventured in to the room that we do not speak of.  I’m sure everyone has had a room like this in their lifetime.  …

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I haven’t searched on eBay in a while for Manning autographs, but decided to see how much they have come down since the injury.  I was pretty surprised that some of his lower end autographs were sitting at the $40-50 range.  Again, like in my l…

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I had originally scheduled another post for today, but with the news coming down that Gary Carter had died, I had to write a post about him.  It’s hard for me to write about a guy that was the face of the franchise I really despised.  The 1986 …

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How is this card worth about $2000? I am so sick and tired of seeing what I consider to be at most a $100 card bid it up to $2000.  Are people so stupid to think that this card will hold value at $2K?  The only thing I can think of is that it’s…

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Yesterday I was looking though eBay, not really looking for something to buy, more like thinking of something to write about that won’t piss off my readers (starting to get some really nasty remarks that I no longer put on the blog). I ran into a…

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I was looking over the list of quarterbacks in this year’s draft and it seems deeper than most.  Its a big year for the Seahawks who in my opinion HAVE TO get a QB early in this draft.  Right now the only QBs on the roster are Tavarias Jackson …

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A few days ago, I along with most everyone else read the story about Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd being on Coke for 2/3 of his starts while he was in the major leagues.  Although I don’t feel like I was shocked when I heard the news, I was …

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Today is Vlad Guerrero’s birthday and to date he is without a MLB contract in February for the first time in his career.  When I spoke about Johnny Damon and Ivan Rodriguez, both showed clearly diminishing power and average issues.  This isn&#…

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Yesterday I wrote about Pudge Rodriguez, today I’ll talk about Johnny Damon.  There was a time when Johnny Damon was a hot commodity.  He came off his finest season with the Royals and there was no way they could afford to pay him.  So off he …

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As the offseason churns along, there are some big names that have yet to be taken off the free agent market. One of them is sure fire Hall of Famers like Ivan Rodriguez.  Now I’m not saying he is a first ballot guy (although he deserves to be…

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I have not been online to update or even approve comments for the past three days, because I have been without internet.  I want to thank Time Warner Cable (TWC) for this time to sit and reflect since Saturday at 4pm.  You see I had cable but decided…

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Normally only about 8 at most make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but this year’s list looks like a who’s who of who should get into the Hall.  Here is the list of this year’s finalists: Jack Butler  (veterens committee) Dic…

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I saw this over the news wire: Oden Undergoes Knee Procedure I can’t even imagine what is going through not only his mind, but his agent’s and the GM of the Trailblazers.  This is going to be his fourth knee operation in as many years for …

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I was driving into work this morning and heard about Sidney Crosby’s soft tissue damage in his neck that may have caused concussion like syndromes.  Immediately my thought went to Peyton Manning who is going through something very similar.  Fro…

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I was sorting through players that I want to target for fantasy baseball this year.  When I look for pitching I look at several things, in order: strikeouts, ERA, opposing batting average, and WHIP. Finally I trim the list down to players 29 and under…

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Yeah, I know you looked at that title and was like huh? Will Carroll wrote an interesting article on SI.com that chronicles the Kings of Baseball since 1900.  The usual players you would expect to be on the list were there, plus Sal Bando . . . for on…

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I was reading about next year’s crop of potential free agents and one name stood out above all else Ichiro Suzuki.  I thought about it and I’m trying to figure out how this is going to end.  I mean, I don’t see the Mariners making a…

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I don’t often veer off the subject of cards on this blog, but I just finished watching the series finale of Chuck and I have to say that it could have been the best finale I have ever seen.  There are so many ways that they could have ended the …

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The spring of 1986 is when I got back into card collecting after a 3 year hiatus while my hormones demanded that I pay more attention to girls.  Once I had a nice girl my friend Frank convinced me to start buying cards again.  So this started in 1986…

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Well, I spent the last hour writing this post and now it’s blank.  Thank you WordPress for your shitty interface!  I guess I’ll have to write it up again tomorrow morning.  Sorry guys! Filed under: Bad Wax Review

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I was trying on coming up with a new custom cut design.  I had always wanted to do one using a tobacco brand so I created my own brand, Killer Bee Tobacco.  Then I had to come up with a bold but simple design for the card, here is what I came up with…

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