Probably not (but then again who called Thomas' '06?). But toss in a bounce back season from Swisher. A healthy season from Crosby. They can probably make up the numbers from multiple parts if things turn right. In the end Oakland's not built on offense anyway.

But like I've been saying, I need to read up more. I don't know who Oakland might have added or who they might have ready from the farm. I read quick yesterday and saw Joe Kennedy to the rotation and Dan Johnson to 1B. Not horrible but not inspiring.

And I chickened out making my confidence points and only gave Boise an 8, I think. They were the 3rd team I wanted/expected to win this bowl season after Rutgers and LSU, but I actually wanted to compete and threw them down the totem pole. Stupid logic interfering with gut instinct.

He also likes the Eagles and the Lions in football and the Flyers and the Red Wings in Hockey.





...fuckin' Moose.

Can we all put this as our sig quote forever? I love that Krydor finally admitted that he's an alcoholic.


...er, that the Raiders suck...or whatever...

Yeah, I've read it now. My bad.

Toffile - this is in regards to my U2U to you over at OO.

San Diego over Pitt. If I've already picked SD, tommorow I'll take Baltimore over Denver.

Again, if it is too late, no worries. I'll join y'all when the next round starts.

try mlb.com... it's offering classic radio broadcasts and might have 2004 there.

My Cardinal have already lost this season to San Jose State. And last season they lost to UC Davis. So getting beaten by a team like Notre Dame is pretty much expected. Frankly, I was surprised we only lost by 21...I mean come on - Navy beat us by 28 and Notre Dame should be better than Navy

Congrats on the W....and for making us your bitch (again).

This is why I route for UT Austin where I got my MBA.....Boomer Sooner indeed.

Checking is easy but I used to be a BIG collecter when I was a kid. I still have a HUGE collection of cards in my mom's basement that my dad and I collected. We always intended to start dealing some day but I grew up and then he passed away so it stalled. I should really revisit that idea now as they're just collecting dust (and water damage in many cases). At this stage I know I'm sitting on a lot of '80's - '90s rookie cards of Hall of Famers. Clemens' rookie card cost something in '93, it probably costs more in '06.

Ok. The Jeter card is a '99 Topps Stars card (#5). Again, looks like the same price range. Ebay's up tp 50¢ now.

Bonds appears to be a '95 Upper Deck SP card. Looks like the regular set of cards from that year.

Bottom line, you have 3 random cards from the last 10 years, none of them rookies. The players don't mean much when they're not rookies. The Jeter and Soriano cards LOOK special but in reality they're just inserts. All the baseball card companies clued in during the '80s and '90s and started making an absurd number of special cards. Holograms, glossy, weird cuts, "limited editions", etc. They could sell them at least at double the price of the regular cards or just trick you into buying 10 Jeter cards a year. Then a couple of years down they actually lose value because the market was flooded with billions of Jeter cards.

But don't toss them or anything. I didn't actually look at a Beckett's (I don't have one these days) so those aren't actual pricings. You never know. If you don't want to do the work you could always just head to a baseball card store and ask the guys there to appraise the cards for you. If you did have a valuable card though they could always screw you over of course.

I do feel a little bad for the Twins, I mean to come back from such a huge hole, win the division, then get shit kicked in three? That bites. I was looking foward to a possible Twins-Tigers ALCS so we could prove who the better AL Central team was. Oh well.

Winning an early round of a playoff is about as good as it gets for a Philly fan.

You should've tolde them to get Favre to retire.

Har. I remember watching that Mizzou/Nebraska game live in 1997. That was funny. Me and my buddies at work actually watched it on YouTube the other day because we were thinking of the biggest BS plays in football history.

What would've been more absurd is if Az Hakim would've caught Kitna's hail mary out of nowhere yesterday in the Lions game.

It was hilarious, the ball is getting batted down and then you hear this big gasp from the crowd as Az comes flying in and then a big "OHHHHHH" as it goes out of his range.

Funny.

Yeah, good call. I'm stupid for not remembering retrosheet.