Courtside Post

By Spencer Loomis

Following his move into the #10 spot on the all time HR list, Spencer Loomis speculates as to whether Jim Thome has had a Hall of Fame career or has just been lucky to dodge the magnifying glass of the steroid era.

Clips of the late George Steinbrenner on Seinfeld and Larry David’s famous impression.

By Eric Goodman – Courtside Post Reporter

These aren’t my father’s baseball cards. And, having grown up in the sports card crazed world of the 1990’s, I can’t say these are necessarily my baseball cards either.

On Monday evening, a lucky gambler named Robert J. Power turned a nearly $9,000 profit on a Bowman Chrome superfractor 1 of 1 version of Washington Nationals rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg that he had purchased for $16,304 on May 29 from Ebay. While all that geeky superfractor talk might be confusing to the uninitiated collector, remember that baseball and business are all about the numbers and someone netted a nearly five-figure profit in one month’s time on a single product that they had already spent five-figures on.

In reaction to Jim Joyce’s blown call preventing Armando Gallaraga’s would be perfect game, isn’t it time for the MLB to evolve?