I was reading the Beckett forum yesterday and stumbled across this thread. You gotta love this guy. His patch card was pulled from eBay for being doctored so he starts posting on the forum about his sad story of "buying it off a buddy of mine who (he) watched pull it from a SEALED BOX!" Unfortunately, he got busted later in the post because someone else saves all scans from that set and posted an image of the same serial-numbered card (#322/699) with a single-color patch instead of the crazy, 103-color (possibly an exaggeration) logo patch that was currently on the card. OOPS.

The poster was obviously trying to flash the card and hoping someone offered to buy it from the forum, but got busted and embarrassed. I wonder if he will ever show up on those boards again. And it wasn't even bigboyd this time. I'm sure he'll be shopping the card around on other boards soon. All that trouble for a Ciatrick Fason card.

Did you see the news of former 2001 No. 7 pick Eddie Griffin dying? The former Rockets, Nets and T-Wolves forward ran through a barrier and crashed into an oncoming train close to a week ago. His body was so badly burned that it took four days and dental records to identify who it was. It's a sad ending to a once-promising career that was filled with bad choices from drugs and alcohol. Griffin was a great athlete and one of best shot blockers in the league, but could never get his personal life on track. R.I.P.