For you EBAY lovers, I offer this item I ran across.

item # 330123702606

Yes, a 1 of 1, officially smoked cigarette butt from football Hall of Famer Jack Lambert.

Looking at Arod's smiling mug here, I am going to go off topic briefly. Did anyone see that play in Toronto the other night where Alex was on the base paths running between second and third with two outs on an infield pop where he yelled to spook the third baseman? The third baseman did get spooked as Alex was pretty much running right behind the third baseman. The third baseman thought it was the shortstop yelling and gave way, letting the ball drop. Good play?

They covered it on ESPN and had Fernando Vina in the studio. He opined that it was not bush league, that the third baseman should have known the difference between Arod's yell and his shortstop's yell. What? If the Yanks need this type of edge on the field, they are in more trouble than we thought. I do not think that Derek Jeter gave a "Standing O" when he saw that play.

My saving grace was when they poked some fun at Vina by showing the old video when he fielded a ground ball and got completely devastated by Albert Belle on the basepaths years ago. Vina was obliterated by a fore arm shiver(straight out of the WWF) and Belle, totally unconcerned, calmly walked over to pick up his helmet to go back to the dugout. Vina said Belle was bush league. It is one of the oddest videos of a basepath car wreck I have seen. Although, the Marcus Giles and Mark Prior pile up is a close second.

I have had encounters with alot of athletes throughout my collecting days, I can honestly say that Albert Belle gave me the unsettling feeling that he was more frequently on the edge than any other athlete I have ever come across. There is no one I can even think of that is a close second.