Easy pickings

In hounding, there must be a law of averages. For every tough autograph you get, there seems to be another that comes pretty darn easy.

Take this one from Tampa Bay's Akinori Iwamura. Rather than wait outside in the sweltering heat and humidity, all we had to do was enter a contest inside air-conditioned Tropicana Field before today's thrilling 10-7 walk-off victory over Cleveland.

Though autographed cards from some of the Rays' bigger names were picked clean, we certainly had no complaints about adding this one to the collection.