This can only really be explained via the press release sent to us earlier today:

PROFILES IN HISTORY AUCTION OF OVER 200 HOLLYWOOD WAX MUSEUM FIGURES BRINGS IN CLOSE TO A HALF MILLION DOLLARS

The Last Supper, The Beatles and Michelle Pfeiffer as “Catwoman” Lead The Cast; Michael Jackson’s “Bad” Costume and The Jason Voorhees “Freddy vs. Jason Costume Among Buyer’s Favorites. … Sports figures were popular as well: Muhammad Ali ($5100); Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ($1800); Michael Jordan ($2700); Joe Montana ($1560); Mike Tyson ($3000); Mark McGwire ($3600); Tiger Woods ($1680) and Hulk Hogan ($3900).

We were a little skeptical about why the Tiger figure would pull down less than Kareem until we looked at all the images. We believe the headline says it all … though that Hulk Hogan is nice.

Another fact learned along the way: Brontosaurus is no longer the preferred nomenclature, nor has it been since 1974. Apatosaurus, please. Who knew?

All of this, of course, is just a long way of saying: let’s talk about Manny Ramirez. We tried to rouse Lizzy out of her lady-cave with a Facebook wall shot about Red Sox World Series titles and asterisks, but all we got back was some nonsense about being on a train. So she has time to send a Facebook reply from the rails, but not enough courage to hammer out a 1,000-word, thumbs-only response to our salvo. Sigh. Maybe tomorrow.

Guess we’ll just have to gang up on this thing. We know one thing: 2002 was a good year to be a suspicious hitter. Also: Absurd or just plain crazy that David Eckstein finished higher in the MVP voting than Nomar Garciapara that season?

[Update] And also feel free to react to this Yahoo report about Favre.

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