Busted Posey and other Thoughts

By: Clay

First off, let me begin by addressing the Scott Cousins/Buster Posey collision. San Francisco Giants GM Brian Sabean called the hit of Posey "malicious", while also saying to KNBR of San Francisco, "If I never hear from Cousins again or he never plays another game in the big leagues, I think we'll all be happy. He chose to be a hero, in my mind, and if that's his flash of fame, that's as good as it's going to get, pal. We'll have a long memory".

Ok. So basically Brian, you're telling me that you wish Scott Cousins' career dead because of a play at the plate that ended the season for Posey. And would I be correct in assuming that you believe that a player shouldn't be so aggressive when the game is on the line? Is it fair to say that if the situation was reversed, meaning the Giants were rounding home for a play at the plate, you would prefer it your guy let up and got thrown out and game over? What? What?

Come on. Scott Cousins was within written and unwritten MLB rules. You can't punish a guy for that. Sabean, you are just mad and frustrated that your team lost it's best player and probably it's chances at the division. Hey, it's ok. These things happen in baseball. And really, I bet there is a better chance of having your second baseman injured trying to turn a 6-4-3 double play with a guy barrelling down on him and trying to slide into him with spikes up as opposed to losing your catcher to a freak accident like that. The slides at second base are a helluva lot more malicious than at home.

Let the other sports chenge their rules until they are only a fraction of what they started out as and what made them great. But leave baseball alone.

Moving on, but not from baseball, I would like to see a shorter season by a handful of games or so. This is not to extend the MLB playoffs. That would be absolutly ridonkulous. I'm talking about the damn weather. No more November baseball and no more snowed out games. There shouldn't be any games played past Halloween. There shouldn't be any March games either. This goes for the annual Red Sox/Yankees ESPN love fest that begins a few days before everyone else gets to play. Seriously, thats bullshit. And if you tune it to watch that and aren't some ass bag Yankees fan or a recent Red Sox Bandwagon jumper (you probably don't live anywhere close to Boston), then you shouldn't watch it becuase you are only doing what ESPN wants. And that would be giving them a Hot Karl while fingering your own asshole and pretending to like it.

It's just a matter of time before the Reds and Brewers take over the NL Central. And a matter of games before the Cubs are the basement dwellers. I know I predict the Cubs to win it every year, but come on. That's all in good fun but I'm beggining to think I'm jinking them... Look for the Cubs to become major sellers here soon. We are probably looking at them moving, or at least trying to move with lots of cash, Fukudome, A-Ram, Zambrano, Pena, Soriano, Dempster and possibly Wood. Sounds good to me.

Fprmer Expo and Met Gary Carter is undergoing treatment for a form of cancer that affects the brain and central nervous system. What people fail to realize is that this is only news when it happens to athletes or celebrities. Lots of people have cancer. Hell, probably half of our four reads will get it. That's fifty percent of our audience. Sorry, readers. Hope you last long enough to make it to our 5 year anniversary. There's gonna be cake. Don't you go dying on me, now.

Something something basketball game. Lebron shoe deal. Something. Shomething. Three pointer. Dirk's finger. McDonalds. Ho's in different area codes. Blah blah. Series tied. Chris Bosh? Dunk. Black folk. Random name, Rik Smits. Yada Yada Yada. 20 inch rims. Proper English, please. Four months of playoffs. New season starts next month or something. Sigh. And that's it for NBA news.

Some douche bite an opposing players finger in the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. No suspension. Wow. Go Hockey. Fuck you Vancouver.

Clay Guida takes on Anthony Pettis in the main event at the Ultimate Fighter finale tomorrow night in Sin City. No, not Gays, Illinois. Las Vegas, dude. Should be a good fight assuming Guida kicks the shit out of wannabe "Showtime" Pettis.

I think there may have been some NFL news today. Maybe yesterday. You might want to look into that. But until they put some effort into working something out, then I'm not giving them any of my time. Apparently the AZ Cards are looking into The Golden God Kyle Orton.

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2011 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball 2011 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball

2011 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball Product Details

Release Date: Late April 2011
Box Configuration: 24 packs + 1 ten card mini box
Pack Price: NA
Product Type: Vintage Baseball Card
Geared Toward: Fans of Allen & Ginter, old school collectors, collectors looking for something new, collectors looking for something odd, relic & auto collectors, tobacco card connoisseurs

What's In The Box:

* 2 Autographs
* 2 Relics

Product Highlights/Details:

* Modeled after the 1887 N174 Gypsy Queen baseball card set.
* Massive 450 card base set featuring 50 short prints and a mix of veterans, rookies, legends and possibly odd balls.
* 7 base cards and 3 parallels in every pack.
* All 450 base cards will feature a stamp relic parallel relating to the player's city or country of origin numbered to 10 each.
* In addition there will be framed paper parallels numbered to 999 seeded one per box.
* Gold parallels seeded one per pack.
* 1 mini parallel per pack. Mini's come in hobby-only leather versions limited to 10.
* Other mini parallels include: Sepia numbered to 10, back variants and black-bordered back variants.
* Autograph checklist will include dual and triple autographed relics as well as standard autographed relics and mini autographed relics.
* Art Patch Cards - 1/1 sketch cards featuring an attatched game-used patch.
* "Bonus hits" will include Gypsy Queen cards, inserts, autographs and jewel cards.
* Insert sets include "The Great Ones", "Home Run Heroes" and "Future Stars" with each insert set coming in the mini variety as well.
* Printing plates both tall and small (regular and mini card).
* Early auto checklist includes: Albert Pujols, Buster Posey, Curt Schilling, Tom Seaver, David Wright, Frank Robinson, Alex Rodriguez, Nolan Ryan, Mike Stanton, Jason Heyward, Johnny Bench, Bernie Williams, Ryan Howard, Brooks Robinson, CC Sabathia, Roy Halladay, Ernie Banks, Stan Musial, Cal Ripken Jr. Al Kaline, Ozzie Smith, Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs, Mike Schmidt, Fergie Jenkins, Greg Maddux, Starlin Castro, Cliff Lee, Ryne Sandberg and Sandy Koufax.
* Relic checklist includes: Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Thurman Munson, Rickey Henderson, Jackie Robinson and more!

Description:
Gypsy Queen Baseball is a first year baseball card offering modeled after the 1887 N174 set with the same name. From early pictures and details, Gypsy Queen is built in the mold of Topps' franchise flashback product Allen & Ginter, rather than other old time offerings like Heritage and T206. 2010 Topps Gypsy Queen is set to hit hobby store shelves in late April of next year featuring 4 hits and plenty of oddities per 24-pack hobby box.