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Cardboard appreciation: 1992 Upper Deck Deion Sanders SP

(Remember when you were a kid and you hoped and prayed that there would be a snow day? Well, I do the same thing as an adult, because snow days still mean much less work for me. Even after all these years, school is a hassle and snow can be fun. Here's to appreciating snow -- I know that's difficult for some of you. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. It's the 99th in a series): I didn't play football in high school. I didn't play it at any level of school or in pee wees. I didn't even play it much on the playground or in a friend's backyard. We'd throw the football around a little. But full-on tackle football? Never did that. The kids in my neighborhood didn't really think about football that much. It might have been a product of living in the Northeast. By the time football rolled around, it was getting a little too cold to play outside (that's what our moms told us anyway). Football seemed made for watching on TV, not actually doing . F...

Stupid for baseball

I don't expect anyone to read this, not with the nonstop televised baseball going on today. If I wasn't at work right now, I'd be right there in my living room watching the Dodgers stomp the Padres (that IS what's happening now, isn't it?). This is how much I'm thinking about baseball right now: Over the weekend while at work, I clicked on the ESPN site to find out which of the "ESPN family of networks" (die, ESPN, die ) was broadcasting the Braves-Phillies game on Sunday night. Off to the right side of the site they have a list of the big news items of the day. The top one said: "Giants release Burress over legal trouble." My first, and only, thought on that was: "Gee, that's weird. The Giants just named him their starting second baseman the other day." Yeah, I know. I'm an idiot. Anyone who follows sports knows that ESPN was referring to NEW YORK Giants receiver PLAXICO Burress. Not SAN FRANCISCO Giants second baseman EMM...