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Preach it, brother

handcollated — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:25:32 +0000

“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. But this one makes me agree with a Cardinal. Maybe the world really is ending this year.

Dumbest MLB headline ever

handcollated — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:35:07 +0000

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 [...]

BRUUUUUUUCE!

handcollated — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:13:06 +0000

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 [...]

Oh, Ryan…

handcollated — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:31:54 +0000

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, [...]

2011 Bowman wantlists

handcollated — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:54:45 +0000

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 [...]

Trade-a-cuffs

handcollated — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:35:17 +0000

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 [...]

Ginter can wait

handcollated — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:07:01 +0000

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. [...]

Late night eBaying strikes again, and a discussion question for free

handcollated — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:57:59 +0000

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 [...]

Welcome to the bigs…

handcollated — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:52:29 +0000

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!

Nomentum

handcollated — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:02:03 +0000

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 [...]