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Posted By: Jim Hoffman

Today's NYPost also talks about the absurdity of Steiner Sports sending emails to their customers almost immediately after Puckett's death--using the tragedy as a sales pitch.

If it were my item to sell, I would wait at least a few days after the funeral stories have run in the newspapers. I guess it would be safe to figure on two weeks after the player's death.

It's a fine balance between selling your stuff and coming across as a ghoulish opportunist.