Teel Trading Company

06/13/2026

Going through one box from the massive collection we bought a couple years ago sifting through junk wax and found some cool stuff that’s still not really valuable but I’ve never seen these and probably couldn’t afford them back in the day!

What’s everyone else think!?

06/11/2026

GOAT

Nobody saw it coming. Not really. The man who would strike out more hitters than anyone who ever lived, who would throw seven no-hitters and leave behind records that still look untouchable, came out of Alvin, Texas as a skinny, wild kid that most of baseball politely passed on.

He weighed around 140 pounds in high school. He threw hard enough to empty the batter's box and wild enough that nobody knew quite where it was going. When the 1965 draft came around, team after team let him slide. He did not come off the board until the 295th pick. The one man who refused to look away was a Mets scout named Red Murff, who wrote that this skinny high schooler had the best arm he had ever seen in his life, then spent months trying to convince a front office he was not exaggerating.

That is the strange part about scouting the future. The tools are sitting right there in front of everyone, and almost everyone still talks themselves out of it. Ryan pitched 27 seasons and walked into Cooperstown on 491 of 497 ballots. The kid nobody could project turned out to be the one arm the game had never seen before and has not seen since.

06/11/2026

Isn’t this basically every sport? We can’t even see our local teams games without subscriptions anymore!

'OutKick' founder and Fox News contributor Clay Travis criticized the NFL during a House Judiciary hearing over how expensive and confusing it has become for fans to watch games.

Travis argued that fans are being forced to chase games across too many platforms and pay too much just to follow their favorite teams, saying the current setup goes against the intent of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961:

"Most of your constituents are frustrated. They don't know how to find games, and they are having to pay far too much when they have the opportunity to actually watch those games. I don't know how many of you remember back in the day when you can have one remote control in your hand, and you can easily flip to any different game... They just want to be able to watch their favorite team and not have to struggle to do so."

Via the Associated Press.

06/09/2026

06/07/2026

Jerry Stackhouse Said Playing With Michael Jordan in Washington Wasn't as Toxic as Everyone Claimed. They Were Drinking $6,000 Bottles of Wine Every Night. The Basketball Just Didn't Work Out.

The Washington Wizards experiment is remembered as a disaster.

Jordan coming back at 38. A rebuilding team going nowhere. Two players who both needed the ball sharing a backcourt. A 37-45 record. No playoffs.

Jerry Stackhouse was on that team. He has a different memory of it.

"But we weren't sitting there every day going buttin' heads. We were having a good time. We were going out there drinking some of those $6,000 bottles of wine that he was drinking every night, playing cards on the plane and all that."

Six thousand dollar bottles of wine. Every night. This was Michael Jordan's version of a rebuilding year.

Then Stackhouse explained exactly where it broke down.

"He wanted more the ball where he wanted to have it, and as the greatest player of all-time, the defence went to him, and that's just part of business, part of how that went down. We wished we could have won a few more games and made the playoffs, and I think we had enough talent to make some noise, but we just dug ourselves too much of a hole and it just didn't work out."

The basketball was the problem. Not the relationship.

"So we did a lot of things together off the court as well. Maybe we didn't have the best chemistry on the court because we played the same position. We needed to have the ball. But that did not take away our camaraderie."

Stackhouse averaged 16.5 points that season. Jordan averaged 20. Two players who both needed the ball. Same position. Same instincts. Defense collapsing on Jordan every night leaving Stack somewhere on the perimeter.

He went to Dallas the following summer. Never became an All-Star again. The season stalled something that never fully came back.

But the wine was good. The card games were good. The camaraderie was real.

The basketball just didn't work out.

06/05/2026

Opening a box of 2005 Upper Deck 1st pitch cause why not!!!

06/02/2026

Larry Fitzgerald Sr., the father of former Cardinals WR Larry Fitzgerald Jr., has passed away.

The Fitzgerald family issued the following statement:

“It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of our father, Larry Fitzgerald Sr. A devoted father, husband, grandfather, and a true pioneer in the Minnesota broadcasting community, he spent his life pouring into the people and the city he loved so much.

He left us peacefully this afternoon, surrounded by his family and the people who loved him most.

We are so grateful for the incredible care and kindness shown by the team at the University of Minnesota Fairview Southdale Hospital during this time.

We ask that you keep our family in your thoughts and prayers as we navigate these first difficult days.“

05/27/2026

Real jobs suck! Know what doesn’t? Car rip!!!

05/06/2026

Sick…

11/11/2025