2019 PROSPECT Franmil Reyes is a Dominican outfielder with lots of power potential. In 2021, he hit 30 homers in 418 at-bats. He struggles with making contact with the ball, but if he can overcome that obstacle, he can become one of the premier power hitters in baseball. Rookie Card 2018 Topps Update #US242 Autograph […]
Retiring My 2006 Prospects Collection
At the end of 2006, I developed a method for picking prospects who I thought had a reasonable chance of one day becoming Hall of Famers… often before they even played a single Major League game. The point was so I could start collecting the players’ cards before they became stars. My inaugural collection of […]
Can an AI Own a Copyright?
An AI (artificial intelligence) cannot own a copyright, because only people can own copyrights. Any argument to the contrary assumes that an AI is a sentient being, which it is not. AI is simply a set of computer instructions. It does not think. It’s just instructions for a computer to follow. Even if those instructions […]
Mookie Betts
STATUS: Active Hero Mookie Betts had an epic 2018 season, batting .346 and hitting 32 home runs, while also becoming the first player in MLB history to win the Most Valuable Player, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, batting title, and World Series in the same season. Betts also excels at bowling, in which he regularly competes […]
Demonetization
Everybody wants to know how to monetize their websites. I tried monetizing my websites for a while and made a few dollars doing it. But was it worth it? No, because monetizing often means plastering your websites with annoying advertisements, jarring popups, and sleazy sales copy. You mess up the aesthetics of your sites and […]
Tiny Copyrights
Stephen King’s novel The Stand is over 500,000 words in length. It’s copyrighted by Stephen King in its entirety. You can probably get away with reprinting a few paragraphs under fair use and with proper attribution. Microsoft Windows 10 has over 50 million lines of code. It’s copyrighted by Microsoft Corporation in its entirety. You […]