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Congratulations to Nick Punto and the St. Louis Cardinals for winning the 2011 World Series.

We had the opportunity to meet with Nick in 2010, back in our “Plastic Baseball” days, when he played for the Minnesota Twins.

Punto took the time to pose for this photo while holding one of our plastic baseballs. This was before our league made the switch to use the official Wiffle Ball.

The throw resembled Carl Lewis throwing out the first pitch at a Seattle Mariners game. Except this throw was unexpected, and came from the crowd during the seventh inning of Game 3 of the World Series.

Carl Lewis’ throw was just bad luck. This guy’s was a stupid decision. Sure, I understand being frustrated that your hometown team is losing bad in a World Series game, but throwing a Wiffle Ball at Matt Holliday isn’t going to help.

Congratulations to Jim Thome. Sure, I always found it annoying when he’d step in the batter’s box and point his bat at the pitcher, but on Monday night, he became only the 8th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 home runs. That’s quite an accomplishment.

To put it in perspective, the Major League Wiffleball all-time home run king, Mike Breen, hit 58 home runs in his career. Jim Thome has hit more than 10-times as many home runs, and he’s still going. He’s only a few home runs away from moving into 7th place on the all-time home run list. And he hasn’t been linked to steroids like a few of the other guys have.

On Wednesday, Alex Rodriguez, or “Al”, as Joe Girardi referred to him, skipped Yankees team photo day and went on to hit his 600th career home run off Shaun Marcum, the only active Major League Baseball player that spells his first name the same way that I do.

While that sounds impressive, if you look at the numbers a little more closely, you’ll see that Major League Wiffleball Home Run King Mike Breen is a much better home run hitter than A-Rod.

A-Rod homers on average every 14.5 at bats, which is disappointing in comparison to Mike Breen who averaged one home run every 5.28 at bats throughout his career.

Two weeks ago, we offered Boston Red Sox slugger David Oritz the option to join Major League Wiffleball. Yesterday, on ESPN Radio’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd, host Colin Cowherd suggested that Prince Fielder should quit baseball and join a Wiffle Ball league. Well, we at Major League Wiffleball would be glad to …

David Ortiz is off to a slow start in 2008. No, it’s not bad enough to be traded to the Minnesota Twins. This photo is from 2002. Ortiz played for the Twins before he became a hero in Boston. Ortiz wasn’t much of a power hitter in Minnesota, and he hasn’t been …

Last fiscal year, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig earned $14.5 million, about the same amount that he earned during the previous fiscal year. Selig is easily the highest paid commissioner of all the major American sports. By comparison, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell earned a pro-rated salary of $11.2 million, NBA Commissioner David Stern …