on October 31st, 2011 by handcollated
Okay, that’s obvious hyperbole. But it did wake me out of my posting slumber, so that’s something, right? Here it is: Classic requires drama, not biggest, best teams I think I understand what Gammons is trying to get at with this headline: great games don’t require great teams. And I’ll agree with that one. I [...]
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on August 12th, 2011 by handcollated
So this is probably every Reds fan’s favorite card from this year,right? Ah, happier times. Bruce made the Padres pay tonight after they decided to intentionally walk the go ahead run named Joey Votto. Shortly after Padres announcer Dick Enberg said “that’s trouble” I was off the couch and jumping around the room. The Reds [...]
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on August 2nd, 2011 by handcollated
Dropped the ball, dropped 7.5 games back. 2011 doesn’t appear to be the year of the repeat in Cincinnati. I’m not giving up hope, but it is being stolen away from me while I sleep in the middle of the night. And if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, the answer is sick, watching kids, [...]
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on July 25th, 2011 by handcollated
So I thought with the looming Gint-a-Cuffs posts that would soon blanket the blogging world like a heatwave in the midwest I would take a break and return when the dust had settled and the champion had been crowned. Everyone else would be so excited about framed relics, black bordered minis, and unannounced inserts like [...]
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on July 5th, 2011 by handcollated
It’s not that I don’t have anything to do. I still have about eight or nine stacks of cards to blog about on the old scanner most of which are about two weeks old, but they don’t seem to be going anywhere. I have a bunch of series 2 cards that I bought two weeks [...]
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on June 22nd, 2011 by handcollated
One of the things I’ve been doing on the night shift is tracking the prices of some boxes I’ve been thinking about buying. Here’s the prices from June 14th from Blowout Cards… 2011 Bowman Hobby – 72.95 Bowman Jumbo – 160.99 Gypsy Queen – 156.99 Topps Heritage 79.99 … and from this morning: 2011 Bowman [...]
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on June 21st, 2011 by handcollated
It’s funny where cards can lead you. Monday afternoon before I left for work I scanned a couple of cards I received from the DFG (who is not to be confused with Roald Dahl’s BFG, by the way). It’s part of a somewhat massive haul of this year’s Bowman cards that he sent my way: [...]
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on June 20th, 2011 by handcollated
Who’s the most frustrating pitcher in the Reds rotation right now? Most people would say Edinson Volquez, I suppose, with his electrifying stuff but his seeming inability to keep his head in the game. I’d accept that as an answer without too much argument. My pick is tonight’s starter Travis Wood. I can recall listening [...]
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on June 18th, 2011 by handcollated
I was posting about some sets that no one else seemed to be collecting out in the blogging world. It was somewhat tongue in cheek, of course. Obviously we all have different needs, and there are a number of people chasing sets that I would never dream of. My main hope was that I would [...]
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