on March 31st, 2010 by Joe and Chris
We’ve been nominated for Best Blog in the Upper Deck Social Media Awards, thanks for the nomination, we’re geeked!If you like this blog and want to vote for us, click this button:Thanks to Randy Medina for the sweet logo!
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on March 31st, 2010 by night owl
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on March 31st, 2010 by Section 36
No, I didn’t need to draft him first overall. As I had hoped, I didn’t draft until the 8th spot in the first round (out of 12). That’s really my favorite area to draft from. I like being able to get a couple quick picks on the wraparound from rou…
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on March 31st, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade? That Is The Question!!
One of the things that I pride myself on is my signed baseball collection. Started around the same time of this blog, I owned jus two autographed baseballs 20 months ago. That collection has blossomed into 24 as of today.
But the original 2, the two that [...]
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on March 31st, 2010 by Tuff Stuff
It seems the guys at Upper Deck just can’t get a break these days.
While some of its past misfortune is nobody’s fault but their own, they
had no control over its most recent slip. In fact, the card company
actually came up with a great idea in creating its Upper Deck Social
Media Awards.
The premise is simple, original and well-intended. The awards were designed to honor
the online communities, blogs and box-break video sites that help promote the hobby
in a positive light. I was pleased to see someone felt compelled to nominate this
very blog for an award and I even encouraged others to vote for the 7th Inning Stretch
so on the slim chance that if it was the top vote-getter, I could pass the prizes
along to our loyal readers. But never once did I consider going to the extreme lengths
some did to push my blog over the top and essentially “buy” voters in an effort to
claim the award. Unfortunately, others nominated adopted the “win-at-all-costs” mantra
and the awards quickly lost their cache.
The mistake they made in offering prizes was not considering to what levels collectors
will sink to when you offer up some free prizes to the award winners.
I run contests on this blog every week and I understand that the prizes help hook
in more readers and boost participation. But I also realize the number of vultures
in this hobby and I also understand that you need to make sure you have some checks
in balances in place to ensure everyone has a fair chance at winning. For the most
part, Upper Deck covered its bases, but as is typical in the sports memorabilia industry,
a few bad apples make us all look like worms.
One nominated site went so far as to offer money and prizes in exchange for a vote
in their particular category. Upper Deck appears to have since stepped in and asked
the site to remove the questionable vote-getting tactics but the damage may have already
been done as the site in question currently the leading vote-getter in its category.
If you check out the vote totals in the other categories, you might assume that others
are encouraging similar under-the-table methods to boost their vote totals and ultimately
win the prizes as well. The contest allows each IP server to vote just once but I
know there are several ways to get around that restriction and I’m positive that the
guys running out websites out of their own living rooms are aware of them as well.
When you see a site with a very limited viewership running away with virtually all
the votes, it screams of more foul play.
Thanks to those who have participated and thanks to Upper Deck for the great idea
and the recognition. For those of you scouring up new IP addresses and running from
computer to computer stuffing the ballot boxes, good luck and enjoy the prizes, but
most importantly, thanks for continuing the industry’s long-standing tradition of
allowing greed to ruin a good thing. As I said, it sure would be nice to win the category
and give our readers a shot at the great prizes Upper Deck has made available, but
to beg, pay or straight-up cheat in order to win those prizes, I’ll have to say no
thanks.
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on March 31st, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
March 30, 2010
Dodgers’ backfield workouts 10-11:30 a.m.
Glendale, Ariz.
Didn’t know what to expect when I arrived. Figured that most of the starters would be at the away game in Tucson. However, the only starter to travel was Loney. The rest were back in Glendale. And this time I would only have to battle a few dozen [...]
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on March 31st, 2010 by Andrew
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on March 31st, 2010 by chrisolds
The National Hockey League’s new card licensing agreement announced last week that allows Panini America to produce hockey cards along with previous exclusive licensee Upper Deck prevents exclusive autograph deals and nullifies past exclusives that players may have signed previously, according to a letter sent to NHL players and agents by an NHLPA official.
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on March 31st, 2010 by Mike Smeth
When the Upper Deck Awards were first announced, we assumed that the Cardboard Connection wouldn’t be allowed to participate because of the fact that we didn’t fit the criteria of an online community or of a blog, at least in the traditional sense. Apparently several of our readers nominated us for the Upper Deck [...]
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on March 31st, 2010 by Dinged Corners
We don’t like when there are non-baseball players in baseball boxes. And yet if this happens with minis, we wish on card companies no poxes.The Wisconsin dome collapses, the Empire State doesn’t even sway.Love this Kaz, and look how Jason Bay peer…
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