So, we bought some baseball cards on Ebay, just for fun, as we mentioned we were going to.
It paid off.
Last night’s haul, all in perfect just-out-of-packs-and-into-the-sleeves condition:
-a Josh Hamilton rookie card.
-a 1982 Reggie Jackson card
-a Curt Schilling card from his first year with the Phillies
-a Mark McGuire “slugging rookies” card
Altogether, the experiment has totally paid [...]

There is, as Dane Cook would have you know, only one October….and it’s pretty much upon us.  Look for lots of baseball analysis and liveblogs.
For now, a bit of updated playoff analysis.
Clinched
The Yankees have clinched the division title, but playoff questions remain.  Specifically, after you start C.C. Sabathia, then what happens? A.J. Burnett has been [...]

So…no Wes Welker = fantasy fail.
Drew Brees got himself a win without a passing touchdown.  Wes Welker didn’t play.  Chris Johnson was controlled.  Darren McFadden? We don’t even want to talk about it. (Three fumbles. THREE.)
So this week wasn’t so good.   Even the day off due to the long weekend hasn’t lessened the sting.  On [...]

It’s getting to be the time in baseball where all the talk is about magic numbers: the number needed to clinch that elsuive playoff berth.
This year, the coolness is today’s Sox-Yanks game, which matters because one of the two teams will clinch a playoff berth today.  If the Yankees win, they’ll have clinched the division, [...]

Baseball cards, baseball cards.
OK, dying industry.  Only Topps remains of the licensed manufacturers, so maybe we’re hopping on this boat kind of late.
But we always wanted to collect baseball cards, and we were inspired by running into a kid the other day who seems to have a college fund in a binder.  Joe Girardi rookie [...]

MB’s mom is trying to mend his epically burned bridges (mixed metaphors for the win!), telling people that he’d come back if the Cubs organization would have him.
Beyond the fact that that’s supremely unlikely, given the Cubs’ clubhouse woes in general, her comments are still interesting in a way.
“Milton sleeps, eats, and drinks” baseball, according [...]

Well, this isn’t how this was supposed to go down.
Milton Bradley, the angry guy with the boardgame name, has been suspended by the Cubs for the rest of the season after comments including saying he understood why they hadn’t won a championship in a hundred years.
Oops.
Explosive outfielder Milton Bradley reached out to the Cubs in [...]

Just because mere mortals can’t watch America’s Next Top Model and kick ass at fantasy football at the same time doesn’t mean UPH can’t.  In fact, The Sports Chick did just that this week (football on laptop, Tyra on the TV!)
We started off by switching Wes Welker, who went back and forth from questionable to [...]

OK, not exactly lucre.  But at least bragging rights at work that came with last week’s total domination.  If we kick butt two weeks in a row, we’re pretty sure that involves some gloating, even if one of our competitors is our principal.
(Funny story, that.  The Sports Chick is a teacher when she isn’t blogging [...]

That was one hell of a Wednesday night baseball game.  The Angels led through the first part, amassing a 3-0 lead against a Sox offense that looked…well, like the August offense.
And then….an error on a routine play and a bobbled throw led to a 5 run rally for the Sox, and they were off.  Eventually, [...]

Buffalo lost to the Pats on Monday in an exciting game featuring two touchdowns to the same receiver in the last 2:05.  They played well–or possibly the Pats didn’t play to potential, but regardless, Buffalo looked fine–but the team has historical issues against the New England club, having lost something ridiculous like their last twelve [...]

Twenty seven year old Darren Sutherland, who represented Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics and won the bronze medal in boxing, was found dead in his apartment Monday morning by his manager.
The manager, Frank Maloney, was taken to the hospital in shock after finding Sutherland’s body, which British media reports say was found hanging.  Maloney [...]