After the first week I was thrilled with my team's hitting and worried about the pitching - now I've finally gotten some quality starts from what I think is a pretty decent rotation my era and whip are down, wins are up - but strike outs are non-existant.  Meanwhile, Teixeira had what might be his second decent game of the season last night, and Wright has been in a slump for a week or so now.  These guys just aren't hitting very well right now.

I thought I'd drafted sluggers with Teixeira and Jones and Tejada and even Wright - but I'm last in HR's... and my portion of the Yankee outfield has been a relative disappointment.

Boyle was the wicked wrister, right Rob?  I was catching highlights tonight and thought that was quite a nice goal.  St. Louis' was nice too, but a fairly sloppy rebound and defensive job on the play overall, but Boyle's shot was just raw power...

Boyle scored the 3rd goal, a high wrister after a pretty incredible spin move to get around a defender.

St. Louis had two goals - a one-timer off a steal and a fantastic pass by (I can't remember who but I think it was Richards) and then the one on the rebound - which was impressive only in that he came out of no where to put it back in.

Richards had the other goal - also off a steal I think and he got infront of everyone and then he made it look easy.

Fingers crossed for game 3...

It hasn't happened to me, but someone I know's parents went through it - and came out stronger on the other end.  I know it was a lot of work for them to move on, and maybe that doesn't work for everyone, but it seems like in their case it was worth it.

Hahahaha... it's bad to say, but I have no pity for people who are stupid enough to fall for **** like that. The hard to find "Sega" variant? He doesn't have Sega on him anywhere...

I hate it when people put something in the title of their crappy auction just to get people to click on it... like this one:

STAR WARS COMMANDER CODY YODA #19 JEDI

It's just an auction for a crappy ROTS #19 Yoda... but this ******* has to put Commander Cody in the title so that when people search for commander cody, his auction pops up. Ebay should ban people for doing stupid **** like that.

Nice, 30 cents more to ship the figure than what it costs at Walmarts across america.

The only issue I have with that though is that Hasbro does issue similarly articulated figs in the basic line (Pilot Obi, for example, the #41 clone and all its repaints) at the basic price point.  If we're paying more for the packaging, okay, but I can't believe the difference in cost between a fig with 14 POA and 18 is 3 bucks.

Rarely.  And the #41 clone is most definitely an exception, because what they might lose on sculpt, they can make up for on volume - by repainting it and reselling it over and over again.  They've already done so at least 4 different times by my count (Gree, Utapau, Regular, and Shock) and they'll probably do so again.

With the quality put into these figures, we have seen a decline in the basic figure assortments that just should not be. If you've read any of Jesse's reviews, you'll note how things like articulation and detail have been reduced in the TSC 2006 (compared to ROTS 2005) at the $6 pricepoint, however they're available at the $10-$12 pricepoint when these "vintage" figures could easily be placed in the TSC line.

It costs a lot more to manufacture a toy with 18 joints than it does a toy with 5 joints.  Add rising oil costs (oil is used not only for distribution but to make plastic) and give it the spiffy collector's packaging, and $10.00 honestly isn't unreasonable.

Indeed.