Preach it, brother

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“It’s pretty ridiculous,” Schumaker told FOXSportsMidwest.com. “I have a shoe on my baseball card. And a squirrel. It’s pretty ridiculous.”
I’ve been fairly ambivalent about Topps’ gimmicks lately…

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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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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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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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Here you go.  I’ve had this pending to post for quite a while, but simply failed to get to it until now. And even though there seems to be an abundance of awkward card choices in this year’s Bowman set, this Trumbo is one of my favorites. It has the hopeless dejection of a strikeout [...]

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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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Yeah, I know.  It’s an exciting time in the card collecting world.  Ginter will arrive soon, the code will be broken a week from now by the same guy that’s won the last two years, and we will all be up to our eyeballs and bored with it all in a fortnight. Except for me. [...]

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Is everyone tired of me posting just Reds lately?  Obviously I’m a fan and all, but I never thought this blog would get so Cincicentric like it has lately. I’m not going to lie to you – posts like this bore the hell out of me.  Reading them on other blogs, I mean, not typing [...]

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I yoinked this off of eBay because I have none.  It’s newly called up rookie and now a starting SS Zack Cozart! Why did I pick the gold version?  Because I’m hoping he’s as good as gold of course.  Duh. Time for a Zack Attack!

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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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I started writing a post light night about my trade with Potch Wheeler.  It was a simple kinda post since I remain limited on time.  Still am.  But something struck me as I started to write about Scott Rolen and his drop off in production from the start of last year:  He’s the same age [...]

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I’m realizing now that it’s been almost a week since I posted last. There’s been, as is typical when a blog goes dark for any period of time, a lot going on.  Because of this, I haven’t had a chance to scan anything new, including cards from a number of trades that I’ve completed, my [...]

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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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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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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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Morrow had given up fifteen runs in his last three starts.  Tonight he’s given up only four hits.  Ugh. The jink is on!

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I last posted a Jay Bruce card on June 8th, and I was very reluctant to do so.  I was nervous about breaking the hot streak that he seemed to go on from the last time I posted one of his cards.  And since that June 8th post?  3/28 with no home runs.  Sorry to [...]

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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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I think I’ve mentioned that I’ve been going through the Sports Card Blogroll alphabetically in order to find trades. I’ve made it through about seventy blogs so far and been able to work out a trade with about 1/5 of the bloggers who are behind them.  And I’ve got one tip so far you, my [...]

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Three weeks ago, I returned to the night shift.  It’s the first time I’ve worked nights since last year.  At that time, Beardy was also working nights and we would occasionally chat online about the hobby and other things.  It was about that time that I realized I was getting burned out and that card [...]

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So it’s time for me to try to play catch up once again. A flurry of trades has left me with stacks on stacks of cards on my scanner.  There’s so many cards there, the lid creaks from the weight.  It takes me three minutes to clear the cards off to use the darn thing.  [...]

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Went to Target yesterday on the news that Topps series 2 was out, and it was.  Even more amazing was the massive amounts of series 1 that still lined the shelves.  I didn’t look that closely, but I didn’t notice any other releases from this year anywhere – no GQ, no Bowman…  Just Topps series [...]

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Apparently a lot of my sets end up needing Steve Carlton near the end.  His all-star card was one of the last few cards I needed for my ’83 Topps set.  His superstar special card was a recent acquisition for my ’84 Fleer set needs.  And with this card here, I’m now just a Morgan [...]

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Reds down 3-1 in the bottom of the sixth.  I know you can’t win them all, but you can win them all against the Cubs. Right?

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I stayed away from 2009 Goodwin Champions.  I had a feeling that if I got my hands on some of them, I’d want to collect the set.  At the time, that seemed like a bad idea, so I left all the blasters and loose packs alone.  Then a pack of the stuff fell out of [...]

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Tonight Edinson Volquez returns to the rotation after two starts in AAA.  The outcome may have been less than stellar, but the Reds say he’s ready.  I thin by ready they mean that they really have no other choice. So, to bring him luck, here’s a card from a happier time, 2008 Upper Deck Timelines.  [...]

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I can’t believe it’s come to this, but drastic times call for drastic measures. Matt Garza was pretty darn good before landing on the DL about fifteen days ago. He had some elbow problems after his last showdown with the Reds when he went six innings and gave up only three unearned runs in a [...]

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One of these years the Reds will learn how to beat these guys.  Until then, thank goodness it’s time for Matt Kemp, Andre Either and the rest of that team to get out of Cincinnati. Kemp hit three home runs over the last two days, including a game tying grand slam yesterday.  Either threw Jay [...]

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As a fan of baseball, I enjoy watching Kershaw pitch a two-hit-double-digit-strikeout performance as much as the next guy. But not against the Reds. So here to blowing the shutout open and scoring some runs! *UPDATE* I may or may not be a witch: Bottom 6th: Cincinnati – R. Hernandez singled to shallow left – [...]

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Even though the money I had earmarked for cards has gone into allowing me to stand upright and walk with little pain once again (man, I feel so old typing that), I still found enough change in the couch to buy one of those Bowman three packs with the retail exclusive purple parallels. Because if [...]

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Back’s better, thanks for asking. As I’ve been trying to scour trades on the Sports Card Blogroll, I noticed a dearth of people trying to complete the 1989 Fleer set.  I know I’d be a little embarrassed myself to ask for help with this set, but you can email me privately and no one will [...]

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So posting has been scattered and pretty lightweight lately. Sorry for that. Somehow I’ve managed to inflame my back. Badly. This causes things like walking to be somewhat painful, so you can imagine scanning and sitting at a desk to be painful as well. I’m not into that sort of thing. If I was, I’d [...]

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Since I’m taking credit for the Jay Bruce resurgence due to a card I posted here, I’m also hoping that I have the power of the reverse jinx.  If so, here goes: I don’t actually have this card, so it may not work.  Something’s gotta give, though, and soon.  I don’t want to be the [...]

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Edison, when will the lights go on?  When will you figure out how to pitch out of the first inning without giving up a run or four?  When will you harness that skill you call pitching and become the quality starter we know you can be. On the plus side, Jay Bruce has been en [...]

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Alright folks, here it comes.  Kids are in bed.  Everything’s quiet.  It’s about time to rip this open. First, though, my hunch about Bowman was half correct.  One store, the first store I hit up, actually, had four blasters left (meaning only one other one had been bought) and most of the loose packs were [...]

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