The 2008 season started with the Red Sox as champs. They were beaten by the A's, who were beaten back by Boston, who were then swept by Toronto, who lost to Oakland, who lost to Cleveland, and so on, until we reached our current champion.
The Heavyweight of the Year is the team that wins the most title bouts at the end of the season.
2008 Title Bout Records:
| team | w | l |
| Athletics | 13 | 13 |
| Red Sox | 11 | 7 |
| Angels | 6 | 4 |
| Indians | 4 | 6 |
| Rangers | 4 | 6 |
| Blue Jays | 3 | 3 |
| Reds | 2 | 0 |
| Yankees | 1 | 1 |
| Tigers | 1 | 2 |
| Orioles | 0 | 3 |
2006 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
2005 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
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2008 Stats
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I just found this out: many kids' vinyl lunchboxes are contaminated with lead.
I happened to have a lead-testing kit at home, so I tested the vinyl lunchboxes my kids had been using, and sure enough, the results were positive for lead.
Don't eat lead! Throw out your vinyl lunchboxes! Good ol' fashioned paper bags and aluminum lunchboxes will be back in vogue very soon, I'm sure.
Just so happens, I have a couple of aluminum lunchboxes:
I was thinking that maybe I could make some money selling those things on EBay someday, but instead, my kids start using them tomorrow.
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