I got off to a late start because I wasn't sure if they'd call the game or not, I got stuck in traffic and missed the first two innings, I spent over a half hour looking for parking, the rain hit the moment I entered the stadium and didn't stop for almost 2 hours, I got utterly drenched and was soaking wet all night (still am actually), the cast of Squidbillies was sitting three rows behind me and were drinking plenty of party liquer, the bullpen was typically shitty, the Nationals tied the game twice on bizarre plays and sent it into overtime, I froze my ass off soaking wet while the wind blew all night, the game didn't finally end until 1:30am, I couldn't get onto I-85 when I left because the signs led me to a carpool only entrance, I got lost looking for another way onto the interstate and ended up in Buckhead somehow, and I got home at 3am.
BUT - I got to see Jordan Schafer get a leadoff hit in the tenth and watch Kelly Johnson bring him home to win the game. The same night the Mets and Phillies lost. Awwww yeah. In honor of these two fine gentlemen who let all of us fans who stuck it out finally get home, here are their at-bat music selections for '09:
Jordan:
Kelly:
These two are not only great ballplayers, they have impeccable taste in music!
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Monday, April 7, 2008
Card Of the Week 4/07/08
Last week wasn't an April Fools joke, I was just too dang tired to do a Card of the Week. Sick as a Dog + Work + general life stuff = no time for blogging. As John Astin's character on Night Court would say though, "I'm feeling much better now"... I'm still half assing my Card of the Week as usual though and I picked this one out at the last minute and I'm kind of distracted by some '88 Topps football I need to sort so I might not get this posted 'til Tuesday but I've scanned and uploaded for your viewing pleasure anyway late or not run on sentences be damned here you go folks a 1956 Topps Jim Konstanty!
Jim is best known for winning an MVP out of nowhere in 1950. 31 years before Rollie Fingers did it, Jim won the award as a relief ace for the 1950 Whiz Kids Phillies. Jim matched his career totals for wins with 16, saved another 22 games and helped the Phillies win the pennant. He never came close to that level of performance after that and only have one more decent year for the Phils before getting shipped off to the Yankees. Jim had a decent year with the Yanks in '55 going 7-2 with a 2.31 ERA in the Yankees pen. That was Jim's last hurrah and he was out of the league in '57. I recently put all my '56 cards into plastic sheets but this card didn't make it into the binder.
The thing is, this card is wet. I mean soaking wet. It's been that way since I first got the card. I'm not really sure where or when or why I bought a card that is saturated with some unknown liquid. I might have got it in a lot, I might have bought it without realizing it was wet, I might have even seen it as a challenge to make it unwet. It's still wet though and I don't know why. It just won't dry and I'm afraid to take it back out of the top loader to see if I can dry it since it's wet and might deteriorate. I have no idea if it's just water or oil or what but the thing ain't drying out and I don't know what to do with it. I'm not putting a wet card in my binder that's for sure. Leaving it out doesn't seem to help dry it, and I'm not putting it near any heat source just in case whatever it's wet with is flammable. I could give it to Steve to immortalize in Things Done to Cards, but it's not a Sox card so it probably won't work. I can't just get rid of it though, it's a 1956 Topps card of a Yankee and a high series card to boot. It would be a real shame if I can't salvage the card, it's a nice card other than the whole dampness thing. You got a nice portrait of Jim, an action shot of him warming up in the bullpen and a shadowy figure and what appears to be a giant bipedal beaver watching Jim in the background. I really wish I could go back in time and take a gander at just what the heck happened to this poor card.
Jim is best known for winning an MVP out of nowhere in 1950. 31 years before Rollie Fingers did it, Jim won the award as a relief ace for the 1950 Whiz Kids Phillies. Jim matched his career totals for wins with 16, saved another 22 games and helped the Phillies win the pennant. He never came close to that level of performance after that and only have one more decent year for the Phils before getting shipped off to the Yankees. Jim had a decent year with the Yanks in '55 going 7-2 with a 2.31 ERA in the Yankees pen. That was Jim's last hurrah and he was out of the league in '57. I recently put all my '56 cards into plastic sheets but this card didn't make it into the binder.
The thing is, this card is wet. I mean soaking wet. It's been that way since I first got the card. I'm not really sure where or when or why I bought a card that is saturated with some unknown liquid. I might have got it in a lot, I might have bought it without realizing it was wet, I might have even seen it as a challenge to make it unwet. It's still wet though and I don't know why. It just won't dry and I'm afraid to take it back out of the top loader to see if I can dry it since it's wet and might deteriorate. I have no idea if it's just water or oil or what but the thing ain't drying out and I don't know what to do with it. I'm not putting a wet card in my binder that's for sure. Leaving it out doesn't seem to help dry it, and I'm not putting it near any heat source just in case whatever it's wet with is flammable. I could give it to Steve to immortalize in Things Done to Cards, but it's not a Sox card so it probably won't work. I can't just get rid of it though, it's a 1956 Topps card of a Yankee and a high series card to boot. It would be a real shame if I can't salvage the card, it's a nice card other than the whole dampness thing. You got a nice portrait of Jim, an action shot of him warming up in the bullpen and a shadowy figure and what appears to be a giant bipedal beaver watching Jim in the background. I really wish I could go back in time and take a gander at just what the heck happened to this poor card.
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