Archive for July, 2007

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Justin Verlander
102IP, 90K, 39BB, 80H, a no-hitter in which he threw over 100mph in the 9th inning.
If you have not heard of Justin, I would guess you are not a baseball fan. He is a nasty pitcher when he is on. His fastball have good movement and his curveball is outright unfair for [...]

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

There is no doubt in my mind that Sammy Sosa deserves to be in the All Star game next week. Do you really think that Michael Young deserves to go more than Sammy this year? And of course, you will want to argue that he is a roid taker and should not be [...]

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

I’ve been passively working on a 1961 Topps baseball card set for close to 15 years. By passively I mean, I have close to 400 cards in the set (mostly commons) that I pull out and look to add to about once a year. I have only been buying cards that I see [...]

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

I’ve been meaning to brain dump on this dude for a while. In 1987 when he was rookie with the Cubs, I was hording his rookie cards like crazy. I saw him as someone with real potential. Most saw him as a singles/doubles hitter, but I looked at his college stats compared [...]