GO VOTE

DO IT NOW

PEER PRESSURE

On a somewhat related note, I have a really awful idea for some presidential election result posts tonight. An idea that would probably be hilarious but may also run everyone off for good. What do?

CRAP CRAP CRAAAAAAAAAAAAP

All Star Voting Ends TODAY!!!

I haven't voted for Brian McCann yet!

VOTE FOR BRIAN MCCANN YOU SLACKERS!!!

DO IT!!!

NOOOOOOOW!!!!111

did i really forget the link? yeah i forgot the link.

VOOOOOOOTE

(yeah, I do this every year...)

My totally unbiased ballot if you even care:

AMERICANS:
1B Paul Konerko
2B Ben Zobrist
2 1/2B Asdrubal Cabrera
3B Adrian Beltre
Catcher Alex Avila
DH Adam Dunn because screw the DH
OF Jose Bautista
OF Adam Jones
OF Matt Joyce

NATIONALS:

1B Joey Votto

2B Rickie Weeks

2 1/2B Jose Reyes

3B Chipper Jones (you'd really rather see Placido Polanco??)

Catcher BRIAN PIMP DADDY MAC 

DH Ain't no DH in the NL, fool! 

OF Matt Kemp

OF Ryan Braun

OF Jason Heyward - shut up this is not your ballot

The Final Verdict:

Display neatly in pages	8 (11%)
Punch 'em out and build that sucker	45 (67%)
Throw it in the box with the set and forget about it	7 (10%)
Burn the junk wax detritus	7 (10%)

Aaron is getting built and framed. Pics when I have one to show off.

Votin' Time

The 2009 Gummie Awards Ballot is online.

Get your bootie over there and vote. A certain blog is up for an award, but just to let you know I voted for a Dingedifferent Cornertestant. Not trying to sway yer vote or nothin', just telling you not to vote for me. I've already won a Gummie, it's time to share the wealth.*

As long as you're in a voting mood, Go vote for the best Pirate Card creator up in the corner. There's no prize, only glory. I'm in the process of sending out hard copy sets to the creators, Beardy and Stale Gum have been sent theirs and I'm working on gcrl's set now. The other creators need to send me an address so I can get one out to you. These take a while to print, cut and customize so the process will take a couple of months assuming I don't burn through all my ink. Thanks for contributing to the set!



*note how just I cleverly used reverse psychology to win the teabagger vote. No socialist voting for them!

Ho Ho Mojo

My entry into Beardy's Ho Ho Holiday contest:

I thought I did pretty well with my creepy deranged bunny eye staring up eternally from a contrived case hit, but there's some pretty fantastic entries I have to compete with over there. Ok, so mine took a little longer to get in the mail, but I had to wrestle that bunny suit away from Schwartz who won it from Ralphie in a card flipping game. And then I had to dry clean the thing twice because there's no telling what Schwartz did with it. So get over there and vote for me!

No one else came up with a weirdo relic card, a terrible pun AND a movie reference that doubles as a 4chan meme. So vote!

WHILE YOU'RE IN THE VOTING MOOD:

Go nominate a bunch of stuff for the Stale Gum Gummie Awards. After you watch Gene Gene the Dancing Machine. Priorities, people.

Also go vote for Drew's 2009 Blog Awards. I'm nominated for some categories, but the only vote I want is for my Bunny Eyeball Relic. Let someone else have the blog glory, but please don't that little bunny be chopped up in vain!

Go vote! Quick! Before Santa comes!

(no I haven't voted yet, but that's because I'm a slackass. DON'T BE LIKE ME. VOTE)

Six Third Basemen

Here's cards for all the third baseman up in that poll over on the right. Hopefully this post will help you determine the right choice.

Also: Fifth Blog Bat Around - Topic will be up on let's say....... Monday.

Mike Schmidt

Hall of Fame, World Championship, 548 home runs, 3 NL MVPs, 10 Gold Gloves.

Brooks Robinson

Hall of Fame, 2 World Championships, AL MVP, 16 Gold Gloves, 18 All Star appearances.

George Brett

Hall of Fame, World Championship, AL MVP, 317 home runs, .305 lifetime average.

Eddie Mathews

Hall of Fame, 2 World Championships, 12 All Star appearances, 512 home runs, 143 career OPS+.

Alex Rodriguez

Really a shortstop, juiced it up, schtupped Madonna, has more money than Sub-Saharan Africa, out till May.

Bob Horner

#1 draft pick, four home runs in one game, if you squint at this name right in the right font it looks like Bob Homer, would have been a Hall of Famer if he had even half of a functional knee, my favorite player when I was a kid so please give him enough sympathy votes to put him past A-Rod, ok?

Fake Tony Gwynn Contest Entries

We had four entries into the Eric Chavez Relic contest, time to judge the contestants.

You guys go vote for the best over on the poll while I start divvying out points.

Matt F:

1971 Tony the Hutt

Design: 1971 Topps is a great year for cards. I especially love the worn corners. 8 Points
Image: Props for the MS Paint, but the original Jabba image is kind of hard to make out. Should have kept it in color. 3 points
Creativity: Really creative, but did ya have to bust on poor Tony?? So he's a little chunky, it's not like he's Mike Tyson! 9 points - 2 for hurting Tony's feelings. 7 points
Craftsmanship: It's spelled Hutt. Unless you were going for Pizza the Hut. Can't do that with a Star Wars geek and get away with it, I just got this book for my birthday. 2 Points

TOTAL: 20 Points

Chuck:

1975/1983 hybrid

Design: This appears to be a combination of the 1983 design with the 1975 two colored borders. Or it could be the 1963 design with a brown border. All are excellent sets. 7 points
Image: Two photos, which is good. The card has an '80's bootleg feel to it though. 5 Points
Creativity: I'm not sure how to judge this since I can't tell if it's supposed to be 1963 Topps or not. The card was all hand made, so I'll give the benefit of the doubt. 7 points
Craftsmanship: Gotta love the blocky MSPaint utilization. 6 Points

TOTAL: 25 Points

tastelikedirt:

1972 acid trip

Design: 1972 Topps is my favorite '70s design by far and I love the hippie font for Gwynn's name. 10 points
Image: All I have to say is Holy Crap. 8 points
Creativity: Just... wow. Look at all that! The Silver Slugger bats and tiny dancing Gwynns are awe inspiring. 10 points
Craftsmanship: A lot of work went into that card. 8 Points

TOTAL: 36 Points

PunkRockPaint

Pro Set Tony Claus

Design: I know the card is seasonal, but 1990 Pro (or Prp, or Prop) Set just can't compete with Vintage Topps. 5 Points
Image: The look on Tony's face is priceless. The elf is pretty good too. 8 Points
Creativity: I never would have thought of Tony Gwynn as Santa Claus. Another fat joke perhaps? The blatant pandering with the Chipper cards is also appreciated. 9 points
Craftsmanship: There's a lot of intricate work on this card with no glitches that I can see. Tony even left me a present! 10 Points

TOTAL: 32 Points

Ok guys, here's the standings going into the voting round.

tastelikedirt: 36 points
PunkRockPaint: 32 points
Chuck: 25 points
Matt: 20 points

I think I have everyone's address, but send it again with your Chavez card preference just in case. Everyone entered is added to the Xmas giveaway list anyway so you'll be getting something.

Everyone, go vote for your favorite! And no cheating... Santa's watching the IP logs.

VOTE - Part two

You thought I was done with election grabage? Nosireebob! I had to listen to lying awful irritating commercials from every 527 group in the universe all month so you have to deal with the Georgia Runoff for one post. So, who is it going to be?

Chambliss

or

Martin

Vote! I already did...

ELECTION NIGHT SPECIAL

Obama - 338 McCain - 156

Excited about the election? Follow along with election results right here on Cardboard Junkie! I've got all the states right here listed by the time their polls close. When a state gets called for a candidate I'll let you know, using the magic of....

SCORE CARDS!

Red for McCain, Blue for Obama. I'll try to keep a running tally of electoral votes as well. If you want to follow along in a less silly way, here are some important links:

Links to state results

Poll closing times and key races

What to watch for for

FiveThirtyEight.com

Electoral-Vote.com

Pollster.com

Electicker

CNN, Fox, MSNBC

Feel free to argue all you want in the comments but be nice, folks.

7 p.m. EST

Georgia - 15 EV

Indiana - 11 EV

Kentucky - 8 EV

South Carolina - 8 EV

Vermont - 3 EV

Virginia - 13 EV

7:30 p.m. EST

North Carolina - 15 EV

Ohio - 20 EV

West Virginia - 5 EV

8 p.m. EST

Alabama - 9 EV

Connecticut - 7 EV

Delaware - 3 EV

District of Columbia - 3 EV

Florida - 27 EV

Illinois - 21 EV

Maine - 4 EV

Maryland - 10 EV

Massachusetts - 12 EV

Mississippi - 6 EV

Missouri - 11 EV

New Hampshire - 4 EV

New Jersey - 15 EV

Oklahoma - 7 EV

Pennsylvania - 21 EV

Tennessee - 11 EV

8:30 p.m. EST

Arkansas - 6 EV

9 p.m. EST

Arizona - 10 EV

Colorado - 9 EV

Kansas - 6 EV

Louisiana - 9 EV

Michigan - 17 EV

Minnesota - 10 EV

Nebraska - 5 EV

New Mexico - 5 EV

New York - 31 EV

North Dakota - 3 EV

Rhode Island - 4 EV

South Dakota - 3 EV

Texas - 34 EV

Wisconsin - 10 EV

Wyoming - 3 EV

10 p.m. EST

Iowa - 7 EV

Montana - 3 EV

Nevada - 5 EV

Utah - 5 EV

11 p.m. EST

California - 55 EV

Hawaii - 4 EV

Idaho - 4 EV

Oregon - 7 EV

Washington - 11 EV

1 a.m. EST

Alaska - 3 EV

Live blogging:

I'll try to comment here as I can, but I've got a lot of tracking and scanning and posting to do.

Also, I'll try to post cards of a player from the particular state, but some will have alternates (like Idaho, I couldn't find any red or blue Score cards of players from Idaho)

Early results from Indiana has Obama at 51%. Kentucky is 2 to 1 for McCain.

Polls are closed in five states. Two states have been called: Kentucky for McCain, Vermont for Obama.

Indiana is still neck & neck. Indiana is usually deep red, but it's a neighbor to Obama's home state.

Polls just closed n North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia. Don't expect any to be called for a while now, especially in the bigger states.

Thorzul has the right attitude about this whole situation.

A whole truckload of polls just closed and many states were insta-called. I'm gonna get scanning.

McCain spent tons of time and money in Pennsylvania and the AP called it for Obama in about five seconds.

Three Senate results: Warner (D) wins Virginia, Shaheen (D) wins New Hampshire, Hagen (D) wins North Carolina. Three pickups for the Dems. Joe Biden also has a job no matter what happens, he just got re-elected.

All the polls in Ohio are finally closed, so there should be results rolling in soon.

You still have a few minutes to guess who I voted for today up in the poll. Here's a hint: I have voted for all three candidates for President on Georgia's ballot at one point or another.

Georgia called for McCain almost 2 hours later than it was called for Bush in 2004.

Gellman makes a prediction.

The next wave of poll closings just hit. No surprises yet.

A Candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win, but keep in mind that California is going Blue unless The Big One hits and it sinks into the ocean in the next two hours. That effectively means that Obama's Magic Number is 215.

Ohio and New Mexico, two Bush states, just flipped to Obama.

McCain pretty much has to steal a blue state to win. Ohio is a back breaker. Dems also pick up a 4th senate seat in New Mexico.

Then again, J-Roll could come from behind and win.

West Virginia - the state where all those racist voter shock videos came from - is finally called for McCain well over 2 hours after the polls closed.

I'm bummed because I couldn't find a John Kruk card with a red border.

Whammo, there goes Texas. Nice chunk of safe EVs for McCain. He needs a takeaway though.

Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri and Indiana are all still toss ups.

Utah stays Red, Iowa goes Blue. Another lost state for McCain. the Fat Lady's warming up.

Meanwhile there is a critical vote underway in Wisconsin.

Polls are reportedly still open in St. Louis due to heavy turnout.

Chris Shayes loses his house set, there are no Republican congressmen left in New England.

FiveThirtyEight.com calls it for Obama.

Not much going on right now. Heartbreaking has some predictions. Joe Collector has some porn.

A couple more safe red states are called. West coast polls are about to close.

California, Oregon, Washington go to Obama. Game over.

Ladies and Gentleman, the 44th President of the United States:

Virginia flips blue, Obama is now piling on. Colorado too.

A useful website.

garvey cey russell lopes is also in a Score mood tonight.

McCain concedes.

Republicans have 40 Senate seats in hand, and lead in others. No Supermajority in the Senate.

Florida goes Blue and no one gives a shit.

Classy concession speech by McCain. That's the guy I voted for in 2000.

Nevada flips Blue. Remaining states to be called: North Carolina, Indiana, Missouri, Montana and Alaska (polls still open).

Obama Making his acceptance speech now. Go watch.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Alaska goes for McCain.

The last four states ain't gonna be called for a while. I'm going to sleep, I'll post those cards later.

Card blogger reactions to the election. And some cryptic posts.

ATL Centenarians REPRESENT!

Final tally on the "who I voted" poll:

Barack Obama - 21
Chipper Jones - 12
Ron Paul - 6
John McCain - 4
Bob Barr - 3
Didn't bother - 1
Cynthia McCinney gets no love.

So who did I actually vote for? Don't you already know?

The Onion provides perspective.

Day after updates:

North Carolina and Missouri still aren't decided.

My own state still hasn't managed to count all the votes and a Senate runoff hangs in the balance.

You didn't think we could get through an election without a recount, did you?

Ballot propositions were all all over the map, literally and figuratively. To sum up: people like abortion, don't like gay marriage. Go figure.

Alaska elected a convicted felon.

Sara Palin: God will do "the right thing for America" on election day. I agree wholeheartedly.