Friday, October 11, 2013

CHEATERS EVERYWHERE....(not just AFRAUD)!

If you have not heard of Bill Mastro allow me to tell you who this man is. He is the man known as the most disgraced sports memorabilia kingpin in America. Bill had bought a Honus Wagner T206 rookie card for $25,000 back in 1985 and sold it to Jim Copeland for $110,000 in 1987. He denied for over 20 years that he "trimmed the card" to make it appear in better condition. Well today in US court Bill Mastro had pleaded guilty to fraud (amongst other things) and admitted in court that he had trimmed the Wagner card to sharply increase its value. He even boasted about it to his co workers that he cut the card purposely just to increase its value.

So how would you feel about paying $2.8 million for a baseball card that's been altered from its originality? You could ask Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick as he was the last man to purchase it and is the current owner of the card.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Week 4 NFL Score prediction updates

Ok so my picks are updated from this past NFL weekend and I was close on most of the score outcome predictions. I was 10-5 for the week. Do you think you can do any better? Perhaps I should put up a contest for that!

P.S. I finally spent some time relaxing today and was playing Saints Row 4. Very interesting!

Here are my picks for week 4 of da NFL:

AWAY    my guess   (actual)               HOME               (actual)          My Status

San Francisco 28      (35)           @    St. Louis       14    (11)                W
Baltimore        24      (20)           @    Buffalo          21    (23)                L
Arizona           18      (13)           @    Tampa Bay   10    (10)                W 
Pittsburgh        21      (24)           @    Minnesota     31    (34)               W
NY Giants       13      (7)             @    Kansas City  35    (31)               W  
Indianapolis     35      (37)           @    Jacksonville    9     (3)                 W
Cincinnati        35      (6)             @    Cleveland      13   (17)                 L
Chicago          31      (32)            @    Detroit          38    (40)               W
Seattle            24      (23)            @    Houston        31    (20)                L
NY Jets          17      (13)            @    Tennessee     28    (38)               W   
Washington     20      (24)            @    Oakland       14     (14)              W
Philadelphia    14       (20)            @    Denver         42     (52)              W
Dallas             24       (21)            @   San Diego     17     (30)               L 
New England  28       (30)            @   Atlanta          31     (23)               L    
Miami             28       (17)            @   New Orleans 35    (38)               W