Four

If I were Jimmy Carter or George Herbert Walker Bush, my ass would be kicked to the curb right now.

Actually this year (and last) kicked my ass plenty and it's practically a Christmas miracle this post is being written at all.

Luckily for you, I am completely insane and shall continue to post nonsense about worthless ephemera until my laptop is pried away from my shaking, clutching hands while I gibber and wail great blasphemies.

I'm not going to say that there won't be some - ahem - changes in the new year. I'm seriously considering doing a couple of things that are somewhat radical. I reserve the right to wuss out at the last minute... or perhaps not. We'll see what the future brings.

Perhaps I'll recap, rethink or retrench in a post one year from now. It'll be a great excuse to post a Freddie Freeman card at the very least.

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

This news makes up for Thom Terrific.

Braves broadcasts change FM stations in Atlanta.

The Atlanta Braves and Clear Channel have announced that 2009 Braves games will be aired on 96.1 FM while continuing on 640 WGST.

The previous two seasons, games were on sister station 94.9 The Bull.

Clear Channel also will air 52 Braves games on VIVA 105.7, broadcasting every Sunday and Tuesday game in Spanish.

You do not know how depressing it was last year to have the Braves Postgame show end after a loss and turn into lame Nashville pop country sludge. Willie, Hank or the Man in Black would have been fine but that plastic prepackaged fake country garbage can go take a flying leap. My radio station presets have already been changed. 96 Rock, BABY! (ok so it's project 9-6-1 now, it's still 96 rock to me dammit) ClearChannel actually did something right. Jesus, the Apocolypse must be upon us.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Go ahead and eat lots of Turkey,


but make sure you leave room for some pumpsie pie.


Happy Thanksgiving all you American readers! Happy Thursday everyone else! Or Happy Friday if you're in New Zealand or one of those little islands just over the international date line!


Idea first done here, better, 'cause I'm slow.
Turkey image from here, because you need to go buy this book now.
Pumpsie image swiped from here, 'cause I'm too lazy to dig through my 1960 Topps cards today.
If anyone else did a Turkey/Pumpsie joke, I apologize, I haven't read most of the Thanksgiving day posts yet. I'll link later if the tryptophan doesn't get me.

Thanks

I've been really lax about posting my maildays, which is mostly my fault. Mea Culpa. I've gotten into the habit of trying to write novel length posts about all of them and I end up running out of time and getting behind. Then the procrastinator's instinct kicks in, which means I play a game or surf to avoid the problem and nothing gets done. New policy here: I'm posting every trade within 24 hours of pulling the package out of the mail, no exceptions. If I post only one card, so be it. This policy begins today with a package from a fellow blogger. Post is scheduled for a couple of hours from now, so you'll find out who. In the meantime, here's a list of stuff I've picked up in the last month or so. One card per trade, but I'll be going back later on and posting other stuff from them too. I just need to clear everything out and start anew.

Thanks to everyone who I've traded with by the way, the cards are appreciated and I hope you enjoyed your cards as much as I enjoyed mine.


Adam E. - 1949 Johnny Sain, McCann jersey, 63 Braves cards, Carlton Goudey SP and 2 Matt Holliday UDX cards to carefully examine.

Eric S. - Abso-freakin-lutley massive amount of Braves cards.

Dave T. (Fielder's Choice) - 18 Goudeys for the set (including all I needed for the short set), 6 Berk-Ross inserts, THE LAST A&G EMPEROR I NEEDED!, 22 shiny Braves cards.

Travis P. (AKA punkrockpaint)- 42 Braves cards (nice number!), Marcus Giles Jersey, 14 08 A&G cards, 4 A&G minis, 08 Heritage Braves Team card and a Showdown Chipper card I've been looking for since 2000.

Daniel K. - Daniel actually sent two packages. The first: 3 2007 Topps, 5 08 A&G, 18 08 Heritage, 2 Finest autographs and 15 eclectic Braves.

Second package - Murph power blue swatch, 3 more Finest autos, a Klesko oddball auto and 17 more Braves.

Captain Canuck - 17 A&G cards, 18 Braves cards, 10 Hawks, 14 Atlanta Flames cards, one Theo Fleury, one lonely Falcon, a random Pops card, a really random Nolan Ryan oddball, two EXCEEDINGLY random Charlie's Angels cards, A pack of 1991 Post and four packs of Hoops.

Oh I almost forgot... THIS:

Oy.
Can anyone out there guess who that hairy hero is?

Jason C. - Jason provided the 1998 Zenith packs that I got to rip back here. There are three more waiting to be ripped on a rainy day...

Albuqwirke - An absolutely bizarre card of John Cena, 5 Braves cards, 4 Braves from the '70s, 7 Heritage cards and completely unexpected 2005 Braves Media Guide.

Steve K - Huge lot from Steve. Heritage: 50 from 2006, 17 from 2007, 49 from 2008. Goudey: 3 from 2007, 18 from 2008 (with 2 Berk Ross inserts). A&G 17 from 2006, 60 from 2008 and 4 minis. Also included were 30 Braves.


I've also received many, many packages from fellow bloggers over the past year.

Thanks again to all, with any luck I'll have my act together going forward. I've got several packages going out today as well so if you're expecting something from me, you should see it soon.

Memorial Day

My Memorial Day post is taking a whole lot longer to finish than I thought it would so I'm going to take time out on writing it to remember everyone in the Air Force,

Navy,

Army,

Coast Guard,

and Marines.

Thanks for your service to our country and stay safe out there.