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• 10. Kent Tekulve - 1986 Topps
• 9. Darryl Strawberry - 1987 Topps
• 8. Glen Hubbard - 1984 Fleer (w/ snake)
• 7. Jose Canseco - 1986 Donruss
• 6. Nolan Ryan / Jerry Koosman - 1968 Topps
• 5. Mickey Hatcher - 1986 Fleer ( w/ big baseball glove)
• 4. Mickey Mantle / Willie Mays - 1962 Topps 'Managers Dream'
• 3. Bo Jackson - 1990 Score ' Football/Baseball'
• 2. Billy Ripken - 1989 Score (Uckface-Fey)
• 1. Ken Griffey Jr. - 1986 Upperdeck

Coming in at # 10 is the great Kent Tekulve. I'm not sure if Sylvester Stallone ever admitted that he stole this look for Cobra, and even if he didnt, he could never own those aviator glass like Kent did. Darryl at # 9 is just a great looking card. I'm not sure I really knew who Strawberry was back then, but I liked the name and the card was perfect. I cant talk or write about # 8 at all. Jose 'Stache' Canseco at # 7 was THE card to have back in 88. If you didnt have this card then you were not a baseball card collector. A card we all would like to have had but couldn't afford at $1000.00, was this gem at # 6. Well, except for that kid who tricked that baseball card shop owners wife into giving it to him for either 1.00 or 10.00, because 1000.00 couldnt be right....hilarious true story.

At # 5 is the Big Glove card of Mickey Hatcher. At the time, I thought it was perfectly legal to own and use that giant glove in any kind of organized baseball league. I went after the # 4 card after falling in love with those old 1950's HomeRun Derby shows that used to come on ESPN back in 1988-1989. My boy Timmy and I used to run home from Junior high to catch them. # 3 falls into that whole Bo Knows Bo phase. I though this card would be worth a million dollars someday. # 2 was a tragedy for all human beings. I remember there were churces trying to sue Fleer because there were children with there hands on a baseball card with that awful curse word. I never owned the Uckfacefey version of that card but I did have the blackbox and the cut out.

# 1 needs no words. When 1989 Upperdeck came out it changed everything about collecting. I got my Griffey Jr 1989 Upperdeck card in 1990 at the Sheraton Inn, in Texarkana Texas. Up to that point it was the best $90.00 I had ever spent in my life. It was tagged at $100 but all I had was 90 and the guy took it.

I was thumbing through my 2008 ESPN Almanac and noticed that I had seen some pretty decent baseball players in my life. Here's some of the best of who I was fortunate enough to see 'in person'.

Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, Steve Carlton, Bret Saberhagen, Rickey Henderson, Wade Boggs, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Mike Schmidt , Ken Griffey Jr, Dave Winfield,  Robin Yount, George Brett, Paul Molitor, Roberto Alomar, Carlton Fisk, Ivan Rodriguez, Craig Biggio, Bo Jackson and Todd Helton.

Now this is not the greatest list of all time and it does include some steroid users, but it's what I got. I got to see Mike Schmidt hit a home run back in 87, Nolan Ryan as an Astro and Ranger, Roger Clemens when he was with the Red Sox, Griffey Jr when he was a kid and saw Rickey take three bases in one game.

One of my favorite moments of all time was watching Big Mac in batting practice back in 2000. He was destroying everything that came at him. My buddy and I were in the upper deck back behind Big Mac land waiting to see how far he could hit them. He drove the first pitch to him to straight away centerfield and it landed up where the Cards have all their championship pennants. It looked like it was an 800 ft'r. Then he railed off about 6 in a row into the Big Mac land. I came pretty close to grabbing one but I valued the $9.00 Budweiser a little bit more. We had went on a tour of Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis and it made me apprecite every last little drop of those hops and barley!

I tried to get George W. Bush's  autograph back when he owned the Texas Rangers. I tried crawling under the seats and got pretty close from what I remember. Then his security grabbed me and I was escorted back to my seat. I always knew he would go on to a bigger and better place?! Not really.

Maybe my favorite times ever were at Baum Stadium in Fayetteville Arkansas watching the diamond Hogs. Back then the outfield was free and you could bring all the beer you wanted. Cookouts, friends, drinks, and baseball in that cool Ozark setting. Priceless.

I apologized to a fast food drive thru window employee today after they told me they did not have any Horsey Sauce. Here's how it went down:

• Employee: Would you like any ketchup or bbq sauce today?
• Me: No, but I'd like some Horsey Sauce!
• Employee: We're out of Horsey Sauce sir?!
• Me: Okay, I'm sorry, I'll take some ketchup.

I have a serious problem with when to use 'I'm sorry' and when to just shut my mouth. Que the Rebecca De Mornay in 'Wedding Crashers'(0:04): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n46CtDmKOg. That look that Vince Vaughn gives at the end of that clip is the response I get when I open up my yapper to deliver those two sweet nectarines of vocabulary that are 'I'm sorry'.

Do you want randomness? I also say I'm sorry to: my employees when I think they dont understand, the mail man when he is putting mail into my box and HE's in the way, my next door neighbor when I tell her that her freaking obnoxius dogs are keeping up building 11 and she gives me the GTH look, anyone who BUMPS INTO ME, people when I cant get the door open fast enough for them, the cashier at any grocery store when they cant stop talking to the person who bags my stuff, and my co-worker when she spilled piping hot Starbucks onto my genitals and I open hand slapped her in the face...well, she deserved the 'I'm sorry' on that one.

I think I see where this is going. People push me around and I just take their crap. When I say 'I'm sorry' it's like my submission to becoming a gimp(or Gump). Well one of these days I'm going to pull a Michael Douglas in Falling Down(4:38): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM8qT9Xop5k. I will not take crap from anyone, ANY LONGER. I'm not going to apologize for something that's not my fault and I wont feel bad when I have to go into that Whammy Burger and order breakfast when it's lunchtime.

I'm sorry if this went on too long.....doh! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXCbAtkgNMw.