Rip off Coin Website

http://www.goldeneaglecoin.com/ Is a joke. They sell coins for way more than they are worth. I found proof sets that book for $4 being sold for $7 and $8. I would never buy from these scammers.

Randy Johnson graded rookie card – 10.0 Gem Mint

You have a Picture Mail from mburks83@pm.sprint.com

Here is a Randy Johnson card I own in GEM mint (10.0 graded). Just like the day they cut if from the sheet.

Barry Sanders and Walter Payton Starting Line-up combo

I paid $50 for this piece. It’s in Gem Mint shape. The item has a book value of $90.

My all time baseball team

All-Time Starting Line-up

First Base – Lou Gehrig – 23 Career Grand slams (MLB record), .340 Career batting average and 1995 RBI

Second Base – Roger Hornsby – .358 Career batting average (number 1 all time for second basemen), 301 homeruns and 2,930 Career hits

Shortstop – Cal Ripken Jr. – 2632 straight games played (MLB record), 2 MVP awards and 3184 Career hits

Third base – Mike Schmidt – 3 MVP awards, 548 Career homeruns and 10 Gold Gloves

Catcher – Ivan Rodriguez – 2605 Career hits, .301 Career batting average and 13 Career Gold Gloves (MLB record for a catcher)

Outfield – Ted Williams – 2 MVP awards, .344 Career batting average and 1839 Career RBI (note: he missed nearly 5 total years of playing due to WW II and the Korean War)

Outfield – Willie Mays – 660 Career homeruns, 12 Gold Gloves and 2 MVP awards

Outfield – Hank Aaron – 755 Career homeruns (no steroids; bigger ball parks), 3771 Career hits and 2297 Career RBI

DH/Other – Babe Ruth – 714 Career homeruns, .690 Career slugging average (MLB record) and 2217 Career RBI (note: he was also a great pitcher)

All-Time Starting Rotation

Walter Johnson – 2 MVP awards, 417 Career wins and 110 shutouts (MLB record)

Greg Maddux – 355 Career wins, 3,371 Career Strikeouts and 18 Gold Gloves (MLB record)

CY Young – 511 Career Wins (MLB record), 2.63 Career ERA, 89 Career Shutouts

Randy Johnson – 5 CY Young awards, 4789 Career Strikeouts and 295 wins

Ed Walsh – 1.82 Career ERA (MLB record), 1.00 Career Whip Average and 6 sub-2.00 ERA seasons

All-Time Bullpen

Mariano Rivera – 482 Career saves, 0.77 Career Post Season ERA (MLB record) and save percentage of 88.9

Dennis Eckersley – 390 Career saves, 1 CY Young Award, 1 MVP

Hoyt Wilhelm – 143 Career wins, 2.43 Career ERA and 227 Career saves

Trevor Hoffman – 554 Career saves (MLB record), 2.78 Career ERA and 6 All-Stars

Goose Gossage – 124 Career wins, 310 Career saves and 9 All-Stars

Note – I do not respect players who cheated such as A-Rod, Bonds (whose head grew nearly two inches) and Mark Mcgwire. That is why none of these “greats” are on my list.

Two of my graded baseball card rookies

Greg Maddux, sure Hall of Famer

Mark McGwire, graded a nine (mint)

Sandra Cantu – police promise results

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30135586/

Police say they are making progress in the search for whoever abducted and killed an 8-year-old California girl, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in an irrigation pond after she was captured on security video skipping happily down the street near home.

“I’m confident that the investigation is headed in the right direction,” Tracy, Calif., Police Sgt. Tony Sheneman told reporters during a news conference Thursday. “We want to find who is responsible for this, but we don’t want to rush to judgment. We don’t want anyone tried in the press. We want to identify the people who or person who is responsible for this and develop a strong enough case that they will be brought to justice.”

Sheneman would not say if the 77-year-old pastor of a nearby Baptist church is a suspect in the abduction and murder of Sandra Cantu, but on Tuesday police searched the church and seized several bags of evidence.

The pastor, Lane Lawless, has a granddaughter who was one of Sandra’s regular playmates and has said he’s cooperating with police. He’s denied any involvement in the murder.

“He has been interviewed, as have hundreds of people,” Sheneman told reporters who asked if Lawless was a suspect. “Everyone that we speak to could be considered a person of interest. We have no specific person that we are looking at at this time.”

While the investigation continues, Sandra’s mother, Maria Chavez, is racked with grief. Sitting with her sister-in-law, Angie Chavez, the mother attempted to talk about Sandra Thursday with TODAY’s Matt Lauer, but was unable to get more than a few words out.

“I loved her so much. She was happy,” Maria Chavez said before being overwhelmed by wrenching sobs.

“She was so fun-loving and just full of energy, full of life,” said Angie Chavez, clutching her sister-in-law’s hand tightly as they sat outdoors in the well-manicured trailer park where Sandra had lived. The girl’s aunt said Sandra loved TV’s “Hannah Montana,” gardening, singing and cooking.

“The last time I saw her, she helped me make breakfast,” Angie Chavez said.

Outside Maria Chavez’s home, friends and neighbors and well-wishers have left countless flowers, candles, stuffed animals and messages of condolence for the family.

“There’s a huge memorial out here, from what I understand second to Princess Diana, which speaks to the support of this community,” Angie Chavez said.

Sandra disappeared on the afternoon of March 27. Police initially treated the case as a missing-persons investigation.

Some residents and a law-enforcement expert say authorities in Tracy should have publicly expressed more urgency about the case and warned of the danger that could be lurking in their Northern California community. But police say that despite their initial uncertainty about Sandra’s fate, they did everything they could, scouring the area, calling in reinforcements and exploring theories from dealing with a runaway to looking for a kidnapper.

I know this is gonna sound mean – but I am sick of hearing about the Caylee Anthony case

You know, thousands of children go missing yearly. Sadly, many are never found. But the attention and news attention this Caylee case is getting is sick.

Why is she different? How is she so special? A little boy went missing in Louisville last year and it was like fifth page news. Caylee however, is the only thing that Nacy Grace can seem to talk about. Must be nice to make a living off of a child’s death.

Nancy Grace and people like her should be banned from television. They are almost as sick as the people who kidnap and murder children.

Leprechauns are red and not green! Learn facts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun

This article is about the creature in Irish mythology. For other uses, see Leprechaun (disambiguation).

Leprechaun

A modern stereotypical depiction of a Leprechaun of the type popularised in the 20th century.
Creature
Grouping	Fairy
Data
First reported	In folklore
Country	Ireland

In Irish mythology, a leprechaun (Irish: leipreachán) is a type of male faerie said to inhabit the island of Ireland.^[1][2] They are a class of “faerie folk” associated in Irish folklore with the Tuatha Dé Danann and other quasi-historical peoples said to have inhabited Ireland before the arrival of the Celts.

Leprechauns usually take the form of old men who enjoy partaking in mischief. Popular depiction shows them as being no taller than a small child. Their trade is that of a cobbler or shoemaker. They are said to be very rich, having much buried treasure.^[1] According to legend, if anyone keeps an eye fixed upon one, he cannot escape, but the moment the gaze is withdrawn, he vanishes.

Contents [hide] 1 Etymology 2 Folklore 3 Appearance 4 Related creatures 5 In politics 6 Popular culture 7 See also 8 Notes 9 Further reading

[edit] Etymology

A leprechaun counts his gold, in this engraving circa 1900.

There are a number of possible etymologies of the name “leprechaun”. One of the most widely accepted theories is that the name comes from the Irish word leipreachán, defined by Dinneen as “a pigmy, a sprite, a leprechaun; for luchorpán“; the latter word Dinneen defines as “a pigmy, a leprechaun; ‘a kind of aqueous sprite'”;^[2] this word has also been identified as meaning “half-bodied”, or “small-bodied”. This is the etymology given in the Collins English Dictionary.^[3]

The word which is widely believed to be the root and one of the ones quoted by the Oxford English Dictionary is luchorpán, from lu small + corp body. An alternative derivation for the name and another one quoted by the Oxford English Dictionary, is leath bhrógan, meaning shoe-maker — the leprechaun is known as the fairy shoemaker of Ireland and is often portrayed working on a single shoe.^[4]

The word leprechaun was first recorded used in the English language in around 1605 in Dekker‘s The Honest Whore, Part 2 as lubrican. ^[5]

“

As for your Irish Lubrican, that spiritWhom by preposterous charms thy lust has raised.[6]

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Some alternative spellings of the word leprechaun that have been used are:leprechawn, lepracaun, leprehaun and lubberkin. In some mythology it’s known also as a demon that appear every thousand years

[edit] Folklore

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In most tales and stories leprechauns are depicted as generally harmless creatures who enjoy solitude and live in remote locations, while in others they are depicted as ill-natured and mischievous, with a mind for cunning.

A leprechaun is shown crafting shoes in this Engraving made in 1858. In previous years leprechauns had a less homogenised appearance.

Among the most popular of beliefs about leprechauns is that they are extremely wealthy and like to hide their gold in secret locations which can only be revealed if a person were to capture and interrogate a leprechaun for its money. Another popular belief is that you may find a leprechaun and his pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

In several Irish legends leprechauns have a power of hypnotism or trickery that confuses their target, either allowing the leprechaun to escape or just to play tricks on unsuspecting victims.

[edit] Appearance

The leprechaun originally had a different appearance depending on where in Ireland he was found.^[7] Prior to the 20th century, it was generally agreed that the leprechaun wore red and not green. Samuel Lover, writing in the 1831 describes the leprechaun as,

… quite a beau in his dress, notwithstanding, for he wears a red square-cut coat, richly laced with gold, and inexpressible of the same, cocked hat, shoes and buckles.^[8]

Yeats, in his 1888 book entitled Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry describes the leprechaun as follows:

He is something of a dandy, and dresses in a red coat with seven rows of buttons, seven buttons on each row, and wears a cocked-hat, upon whose pointed end he is wont in the north-eastern counties, according to McAnally, to spin like a top when the fit seizes him.^[9]

In a poem entitled The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker, the 18th century Irish poet William Allingham describes the appearance of the leprechaun as:

A cluricaun with a jug of wine. The cluricaun is often confused with the leprechaun.

…A wrinkled, wizen’d, and bearded Elf,

Spectacles stuck on his pointed nose,

Silver buckles to his hose,

Leather apron – shoe in his lap… ^[10]

Some commentators accuse Allingham of leaving the legacy of the modern image of the leprechaun. ^[11]

The modern image of the leprechaun is almost invariant: he is depicted as having red hair (often with a beard), wearing an emerald green frock coat, and bestowed with the knowledge of the location of buried treasure, often in a crock of gold.

[edit] Related creatures

The leprechaun is related to the clurichaun and the far darrig in that he is a solitary creature. Some writers even go as far as to substitute these second two less well-known spirits for the leprechaun in stories or tales to reach a wider audience. The clurichaun is considered by some to be merely a leprechaun on a drinking spree.^[12]

[edit] In politics

In the politics of the Republic of Ireland, leprechauns have been used to refer to the twee aspects of the tourist industry in Ireland^[13][14]. This can be seen from this example of John A. Costello addressing the Oireachtas in 1963:

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For many years, we were afflicted with the miserable trivialities of our tourist advertising.Sometimes it descended to the lowest depths, to the caubeen and the shillelagh, not to speak of the leprechaun.[15]

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Leprechauns have also been used in jokes regarding fiscal irresponsibility, the idea being that the politician or political party being attacked has found a pot of gold, or is going to ask a leprechaun for the location of such a pot, accommodating their spending.^{[citation needed]}

The term leprechaun language, has been used by some Unionists in Northern Ireland, and is a pejorative for the Irish language.^[16][17]

[edit] Popular culture

Films, television cartoons and advertising have popularised a specific dim-witted image of leprechauns which bears scant resemblance to anything found in the cycles of Irish mythology. Irish people can find the popularised image of a leprechaun to be little more than a series of offensive Irish stereotypes.^[18]

The stereotypical image of a leprechaun bedecked in green is particularly strong in the United States, where it is widely used for a variety of purposes, both commercial and non-commercial.

The mascot of the Boston Celtics is a leprechaun depicted holding a basketball.

The leprechaun legend has spawned the successful Leprechaun horror film series, which began in 1993 with the Jennifer Aniston-starring Leprechaun. Five sequels have been released, all of them featuring Warwick Davis as the titular character.

Dylan Postl plays the Leprechaun character Hornswoggle the kayfabe son of Northern Irish wrestler Finlay for WWE’s ECW brand

Another movie made about the leprechaun is Walt Disney’s classic Darby O’Gill and the Little People.

[edit] See also

Octo-Mom is not hot nor does she look like the lovely Angelina Jolie

NBC Photo: Paul Drinkwater, AP Photo/Dan Steinberg

I am sick of hearing about this woman! Who cares!!!!

Starting Lineup figures

Craiglist has become a dear friend of mine. Many people come across things they don’t want. Knowing little about profit, they will sell you what they see as junk for nearly nothing.

Recently I bought four 1988 Starting Lineup figures for $30. One was a Michael Jordan figure in near great condition. Some sites sell them for as high as $199. I could easily sell this Jordan piece for $75. I also got a Larry Bird one, worth $80, making two Bird ones in my collection.

If you have Starting Lineup figures you don’t want, let me know. I am always looking to buy!