Sports Illustrated Cover: Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan

There is a great cover to this week's Sports Illustrated: Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan!

It is coming out at a perfect time for autographs too. Next month I'm going to an MAB show on Long Island where Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan will be signing. Tom Seaver is also signing this month at the National.

Has the Value of the Phelps Card Dropped?

To the 18+ crowd the Michael Phelps' hippie lettuce hit doesn't seem to be a big deal. Mario @ Wax Heaven had a good discussion about it yesterday. The parental crowd and 10-17 age demographic probably has another perspective.

How long until Phelps is on Barbara Walters, The View, and The O'Reilly Factor explaining this poor decision on the heels of his previous DUI poor decision?

I'm not playing a "better than thou card." Personally I don't care what he does in his spare time behind closed doors. All I'm saying is that when you're paid millions of dollars to be a good person, hard worker, and "boy next door" to little kids, then it's stupid to experiement with mary jane around other people. Maybe this the SI Sportsman of the Year Curse?

So will the value of his card drop?

Is now the time to buy this card before the next summer olympics?

Michael Phelps - Card of the Year?

Michael Phelps was named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. Does that make this card the sports trading card of the year?

Yankee Stadium - This Week's Sports Illustrated Cover

Sports Illustrated has a cool cover and story on the closing of Yankee Stadium. I'm not a Yankees fan, but the last game at the stadium is the closing of a baseball history chapter.

You can still get seats on StubHub if you want to be a part of the last game. The cheapest seats I found were bleacher seats in the no alcohol section for $151 a piece. The most expensive seats were in the Field Championship level for $5,400 a piece.

For a price, you can be a part of baseball history. Or for the same amount of money you could run payroll for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Florida Marlins!

Earlier this week the Awful Announcing Blog provided information about ESPN's all day coverage of the last game at Yankee Stadium.