Yesterday, just for fun, I looked at the highest-paid team in baseball, the New York Yankees, who earn, on average, $16 per minute of existing. Today, for contrast, the lowest-paid team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Total payroll: $34.9 million. Average per player: $1.3 million, or $8,025 per regular-season game, or $2.50 per minute. Another way to look at it: You could pay to field eight (8!) teams of Pirates for what it costs to run one (1!) team of Yankees.

Confession booth: Last week, a fed-up pregnant woman confessed to stashing money so she can leave her "unreliable, untrustworthy, unresponsive" husband as soon as the baby comes. Some commenters said, "You go girl" or shared their own stories of mismatched marriages, while others suggested the confessor was not taking the "for worse" part of her wedding vows seriously enough, and still more offered some practical advice: Get a good lawyer.

License to buy: In Texas, some shoppers have linked their driver's licenses to their bank accounts, turning their state ID card into a debit card, Greg reports. And while 21 other states issue licenses with the potential to be turned into debit cards, Texas is the only one doing it, and only on a small scale. What gives, Bundlers howled. Justin and Presh both want the convenience of carrying only one card, and Morgan is suffering a little self-recrimination: "I had this idea about 8 years ago, should have followed through on a patent or something," she wrote. "All my friends thought it was stupid."

Toxic supermodels, million-dollar ideas, and Netflix for books: All of it, today, in the Weekly Bundle. Yeah, we'll post it online tomorrow, but wouldn't you rather have it in your inbox today? Put your email in the box on the right, and you'll be in there like swimwear.

Question of the day: What is the most valuable thing you've ever lost? Tangible items only — no touchy-feely business about "innocence." Really, people. Comment or tweet: #lostandfound

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