Six Years

...I've been doing this. I don't know if I'll make seven. I don't know if I'll get out of bed tomorrow. Honestly this has been a wasted year and I've been some combination of wiped out, sick and depressed for the past four months now. I got a whole big box of cards to scan and post and I JUST DON WANNA DO IT. Maybe the new year will rejuvenate me, maybe it won't. Whatever the case I want to finish just one friggin thing this year if at all possible. Here's the last five cards I got from the May vintage show and never posted. Maybe the last cards from the last show I go to. Pissiness aside, here ya go.

Have a 1949 Bowman Jeff Heath card. Anything before 1950 is relatively difficult to find and this fills out one of the many holes in my vintage Braves team binder. I love the red and blue colors on this card but what is up with the smirk on this dude's face? It looks like he's getting a beej while posing for the photo or something.

1962 Topps Gaylord (snicker) Perry rookie card. While everyone's all in a tizzy about how every single born after this card was printed was a bunch of juiced up cheaters, Mr. Lord took used some different juice to get into the hall. *ptui* This HOF rookie cost me all of five bucks.

First draft of this was deleted for being over the top. The card speaks for itself. There's a reason this is my second-favorite card from the Mars Attacks set.

1971 Thurman Munson! One of the most iconic cards of all time! A card that intimidated me for years and prevented me from collecting the '71 Topps set! Got it for less than a blaster. Haven't bought much vintage since. Still afraid of iconic cards I can get for like, ten bucks online if I just put some effort into it. This is how far I've fallen collecting wise.

The big mamma jamma. Phil Niekro Rookie. And Phil Roof. Fun story: one of the first cards I ever owned was a 1971 Phil Roof that was way miscut that I got out of a junk box when I was about 8 or 9 for a penny. This is the last card I picked out from my last card show. Might be some symmetry there. Maybe not. It's the rookie card of my favorite player when I was a kid so if I do end up riding off into the sunset I'm at least ending on a high note.

Here's to 2013, it can't possibly suck as bad as 2012!

Five Years

Wooo it's the blog's birthday! Let's see how I feel about the state of the card industry!




Not necessarily saying that there won't be a 6th birthday for the blog, but there's definitely going to be some drastic changes around here. Assuming the whole thing doesn't just go poof into the aether when SOPA passes, of course.

This was my Christmas present to myself do don't expect regular posting for a couple weeks...

Never played Majora's Mask, looking forward to that one.

UPDATE: Ponies were demanded and ponies thou shalt have.

Transmogrified into being: 1978 Dick Tidrow

Here's another redemption from the Topps Diamond thingy.

This one came in a 4-for-1 deal for a 1990 Nolan Ryan Highlight card. there was a '74 Dave LaRoche, a '76 Tony Taylor, a '80 Larry Christenson and Tidrow. That seems like a slick deal, but Dick is the only one I actually had shipped. The other three were dumped. I can't remember if I redeemed Tidrow because I needed this card for the set or just for the epic moostache. I shaved my goatee once to give myself a mustache like that one time and my wife scolded me until I shaved it completely. Then she told me to grow the beard back because I looked weird with no facial hair (and she's right - I look like Peter Griffin, but dorky) and that made me sad. Dangit, I'm being a downer again. HEY LOOK - BASEBALL GAME



Fly out. DOWNER.

arrrggghhh

Congratulations to U.S. Steel upon winning their 27th championship.

To commemorate this event, here is a poem by Robert S. Wieder originally published in the January, 1999 issue of Playboy.

If this terse rhyme, about our pastime

Seems a little cranky,

It's possibly because the writer

Hates the F&$%ing Yankees.

Yankees fans, whoop it up! Jeter's got one for the thumb. Everyone else, remember Linus Van Pelt's motto...

JUST WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!!!

bluh

I feel crummy and I don't want to post anything.

Instead go to Thorzul's and think about doing a post for the next Blog-Bat-Around.

I think this one is unofficial or unauthorized, but who cares.

The Bat Around post topic has nothing to do with my ennui, I'm just generally miserable today. Has to do with work and sick and stress and that kinda stuff.

Here's a card.


Sorry for bluh. I'll try to un-bluh tomorrow.