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I seem to have won an award given out by a website called Sports Central. While it’s not quite the same as Ed McMahon coming to my door with an oversized check, I am honored to be ANYBODY’s site of the week (and now, the Unemployed Yankee Fans of Greater New York present their award for Most Trenchant Criticism of the Yankees’ Glut of Futility Infielders…). Sports Central seems to be a pretty interesting opinion and discussion forum site dealing with all sports, not just baseball. The baseball stuff is pretty good, what I’ve read of it. This week’s column deals with the Gary Sheffield trade and what it says about the power relationship between petulant star players and their teams. Worth a read.

Hot on the heels of my two-part feature about ballplayers named Jay comes my induction of Jay Buhner into my Wall of Fame. Buhner was a classy ballplayer who I’ll miss every bit as much as the Yankees who recently departed. Readers of the series will quickly recognize that I’ve shamelessly repurposed much of the information for Buhner’s page, but I’ve provided a bonus of sorts by examining the man at the other end of the Yankees’ infamous trade of Buhner, Ken Phelps.