Eric Simon from Amazin’ Avenue is a smart guy and apparently a damn decent one. For every one of David Wright’s strikeouts this season, he has pledged to donate $2 to CARE, a global poverty charity.
Eric has asked his readers to make similar pledges, and a hilarious outpouring of prop-pledges has followed. I’ve pledged 50 cents per Wright strikeout, plus an extra $50 if by some weird chance Alex Cora’s option doesn’t vest and another $10 if Chris Carter finishes the season with more plate appearances than Gary Matthews Jr.
I’ll probably hit you up for donations for a more self-serving cause later this summer and I hate to go to the charity well too often, but I figured I would at least pass the word along.
Tedquarters 
When I clicked on the “a more self-serving cause” link and the title of the page that opened was called “Medical Trauma”, I guessed (incorrectly) that you were going to ask us to chip in for the hospital bill from when you swallowed that bottlecap a few weeks ago.
I haven’t said I won’t. I’m still waiting on the bill.