Mail is awesome.

Got a couple of packages in the mail today. One came from Thoughts And Sox with several 2005 Topps Reds, a couple other 2008 cards, and 2003 Fleer Griffey punch-out card. I think I needed all of these cards for my Reds or Griffey collections, so they are much appreciated. I’ll be scouring my cards [...]

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Here are some more cards that I’m offering up to trade. Again, I collect Reds cards and am trying to complete the 2007 UD Masterpieces set and a few others. E-mail any offers to jasontcarter at gmail dot com, and leave a comment here just in case my spam filter misdirects it.
2008 Baseball Heroes
15 Brian [...]

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Brett Favre is leaning towards retirement.

Really, does anyone care?
Don’t mistake me for an NFL fan. I haven’t watched more than 15 minutes of NFL “action” this season. The glory days of Dan Marino, Thurman Thomas, and Ickey Woods are long gone. There is not a single player in football that I care about. But I [...]

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I really like Upper Deck’s Timeline release this year. The design is awesome, and is the best new design of 2008 in my opinion. However, I’m not impressed with the cards I’ve gotten in packs. With the exception of a couple of Fukudome and Soriano cards, I haven’t opened anything I want to keep in [...]

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I got four packages in the mail today, after several days of no mail at all (no bills or anything)! Every package today contained baseball cards, so let’s bust them open…

Scott from Green Monster is trying to finish off his 2007 UD Masterpieces set just as I am, so we compared want lists and doubles [...]

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Some say that Randy Rhoads would have left Ozzy Osbourne’s band to focus on classical guitar had he not died in the early 1980s. While I would have missed his hard rock stylings (and do miss them greatly…Zakk Wylde is great, but he’s no Randy Rhoads), I’m sure he would have been very successful in [...]

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Joe from Cardboard Addiction and I were recently exchanging pleasantries in an electronic fashion, and he mentioned that I may be the only Kurt Stillwell collector in existence. Can it be true? Am I the only one who actively seeks out and purchases Kurt Stillwell cards? It’s possible, I’m sure, but I have a feeling [...]

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Several card bloggers have taken a crack at the questions asked by Dinged Corners, so I figured I would step up to the plate and take a swing…
ROUND ONE:
1-If I didn’t collect baseball cards, I’d collect _________. This is a tough one, because I do collect a lot of different things…comic books, music, Star Wars [...]

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Why should I enter a contest to prove what I already know? I collect baseball cards, read comic books, watch cheesy horror movies, and have a ton of Star Wars toys. Yes, I am a huge loser. I’m 99.9% sure that I am the biggest loser where I work.
Oh wait. That’s not what they’re talking [...]

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“Big Klu” is one of the players that my dad told me about growing up. He was there before Rose, Bench, Perez and the rest of the Big Red Machine. Kluszewski had some monster years for the Reds, but was unable to put up the type of career numbers that would land him in Cooperstown.
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Too busy at work tonight to concentrate on writing, so I worked on things that didn’t taken as much focus…fun cards! Or is that just an excuse? Meh. Who knows.
I’m not a big fan of Manny Ramirez, but I came across this photo earlier tonight and just thought it was cool. Too bad it’s in [...]

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Mattingly was one of the superstars of the late 1980s. It was always a highlight when Donnie Baseball could be found in a pack of cards picked up at the local convenience store. It’s a travesty that this man is not enshrined in Cooperstown.
      

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I got some 2007 UD Masterpieces for Christmas, and I really like these cards. However, in four retail boxes I was unable to complete a set and got a ton of doubles. So, here are the cards I need:
4 Bill Mazeroski, 13 Brooks Robinson, 42 Tony Gwynn/Cal Ripken Jr., 55 Cal Ripken Jr., 65 Alex [...]

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I started this blog a little over a year ago, not really sure where it was going to take me or what I was going to do with it. At the time, I had 58 pages written in my novel. Today, just over a year later, I have 74 pages (and that was back in [...]

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It’s been years since I’ve heard this song. Probably years since I’ve heard anything by the singer. But it popped into my head this morning, and I just had to YouTube it to get it out of my head. Like that will help.

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Check this out:
hindersucks.com
Brilliant!
      

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I present to you the ten best hard rock albums of 2008.
10. Jørn Lande - Lonely Are The Brave - Don’t tell me, you’ve never heard of him. He has one of the best voices in music and a long list of albums released. Give him a chance and you will likely become a fan.
9. [...]

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Twas the Hard Rock Nights before Christmas and all through the mansion…
Everyone was rockin’, even Sebastian.
He was listening to the radio close
To see if JT would play Guns N’ Roses.
But to begin the show, the disc jockey said, “Mister,
I’m gonna play some Twisted Sister!”
Listen to Hard Rock Nights on
classxradio.com from 9-11 pm eastern
every Saturday!
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Back in spring training, my son and I decided to send a few cards to Josh Hamilton at the Rangers camp. I had given up on them, and even last week when my son asked when they would be coming back, I told him they probably wouldn’t. Hamilton had a great season and became a [...]

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Or maybe just document this. I had a very strange dream. It had nothing to do with my teeth, or with floating/flying, two dreams that I have had often. This one came out of nowhere, and don’t really know what to think about it. Any dream analysts out there?
Anyway, I was at a car auction [...]

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Almost completely. With the exception of doubles and a few select cards, all of my Mets and Dodgers cards will be shipped out tomorrow to Mark, Jim, and Greg. I have Cardinals and Royals set aside for another, as soon as I hear how many Reds he can send. And you’re on deck. What’s your [...]

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I’m finally ready to start sending out some cards, so here’s the deal: send me an e-mail (jasontcarter at gmail dot com) and tell me how many Reds you are able to send, and your address. I will respond with the number of cards of your team I can send. Mets (Stats on the Back) [...]

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The Reds have one of the strongest starting three in the majors today, if they are able to live up to their potential. We start with Edinson Volquez, who was so good in 2008 that he came in 4th place in Rookie of the Year voting despite not being a rookie! He was tied for [...]

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So patience is not a virtue I employ very often. I still haven’t found a good action shot of a young Eric Davis, but I did grab this posed photo and created a 1984 Fleer Update card for the 1980s superstar.

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Inspired by GooseJoak’s fantasy cards, PunkRockPaint’s “Shoulda Been Sundays” and White Sox Cards‘ “Cards That Never Were,” I have decided to travel back in time to 1984 and create card #133T…the one and only Kirby Puckett. Topps really missed the boat on this one, but Fleer got him in their year-end set. Here’s what the [...]

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Today my son and I went to the 11th Annual Redsfest held at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati. We took a stack of cards with us, knowing that we wouldn’t be able to get them all signed, but I think we did pretty good. The event started at 4 p.m., and we went [...]

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This video is awesome.

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I think it is appropriate to post Christmas stuff. I found this awesome Led Zeppelin/Xmas mashup titled “Yuletide Zeppelin” last year, and probably posted it then, but need to post it again because it’s just that awesome.

There is a “Yuletide Zeppelin II” out there, but it is not quite as awesome as this. If you’re [...]

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In the second blind trade, only half-completed so far, I received a box of Reds from Mark at Stats on the Back. He’s cleaning out his non-Mets, much like I’m cleaning out my non-Reds…keeping a few other favorites and collections, but for the most part cleaning house. He had posted a little teaser about what [...]

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This is a long overdue thank you to Steve of the White Sox Cards blog. We worked out a “blind” trade recently: I would send him x number of White Sox cards, and he would send me x number of Reds cards, but neither of us knew what we were getting. The White Sox cards [...]

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I mentioned Goose Joak in passing recently, but with his most recent post I must give him some more prominent attention. The blog features “Fantasy Baseball Cards,” current players on old card styles, and old players on current card styles! If you’ve followed this blog for very long, you know that I love “fantasy” cards. [...]

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I’ve never been to Redsfest before, but it looks like a jolly good time to me. Since we bought a family package for the Reds Hall of Fame earlier this year (a purchase we will probably repeat when it expires), we got a couple of free tickets to the event on December 12.
Looking at [...]

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