Bob Feller: Good Graciousness

1918-2010 Helluva nice run, Bob. Thanks

Red Sox Land Crawford: My Favorite Acquisition Since Bill Hall

So they are shopping Beltre, one of the best players I never got to watch on tv, until he came to the sox. My appreciation grew. Bill Hall has always been my #1 unsung hero. I just love the guy. Carl Crawford holds a special place for me, and even more so now that he will be pulling amazing feats of strength, dexterity and coordination in Boston.
I am dying to see my man's reaction over at CCC, (see comments for his take) I have a package ready to send to him full of Crawford hits, wonder who wants them now?

EDIT 12/9 (and he does lol)

Watching Topps Jump The Shark: Complacency is a Sin in This Biz...

Let's talk football cards. Just for a minute. I love Topps Chrome this year, and hate the baseball version.

Topps Prime is the worst product I have seen in ages. It is a mash-up of fleer ultra, stadium club and the dregs of late 2000s Upper Deck offerings. I really thought I had hit the wall with Unrivaled...
Speaking of Unrivaled, It is Uninspired at best. In both of these products, the retail "hits" are more of a joke than the Platinum "variation" decoys, I mean, Cards.
One or, if you are lucky, two non-numbered, ugly, non-SP decoys per blaster. Goddam Topps is playing us for idiots. Watering down their products even further while we all sit in the card aisle waiting for Godot.
At least they (and the secondary market) are finally cooling on those misleading-at-best "Rookie Worn" materials cards #d to 499 or higher...

and I'm done.
trade with me.

Peterson

Winter(meetings) Wonderland: Do I like Mark Reynolds or Not?

Well, Do I? I am guessing that only time and about 200 strikeouts should make up my mind. I pulled an auto of his back in 07, and sold it not too long after for a decent price. All of this while I had absolutely no freaking clue who this guy was...Brett Anderson was the first, also a diamondback, and I just don't care to watch them.

No, Not a Buh...:Good Night Leslie

not a buh...a Bomb. As the wheel grinds away eternal and the circle be unbroken so to, must we, all shuffle off this mortal coil.

thanks to R.W.Emerson and, traditional bluegrass and tha Bard himself for the words.

Check for an Action: Free shipping to my Fellows

I have a bunch of auctions over here that will be coming and going in the near future. Don't worry, I saved all the autos to flash here and some cherry-picked winners for a few trades to speak of.
anyone mentioning Signhereandhere in their purchase order gets free shipping. Or extra cards...or both.
later
Peterson

One Thing I Love About Collecting Sigs: Tha Monee

I bought this little guy for a little under 8 bucks shipped about four years ago, and have it at auction right now. the auction site i use (which needs no extra ads) can be fickle, but the last one came in at a hefty 98bucks and change...
Just for the record, I bought this for the on-card sig and the great, almost-star auto. It is by far the best looking one I have seen available for trade.
Good Job, Mr. Votto. I didn't know you had it in you. (seriously, I totally did not see this coming)
Original Purchase price: 8.00
Final Sale Price: 67.50 (wtf)
Peterson

Proposition: I Think You Know Where I Am Coming From

I am going to take a couple of my topps chrome to school and go see my buddy Chris in the Physics department to take a reading of the reflexive energy or tensile strength of the curve of "new topps" (like new coke only shittier) chrome cards I aquired recently in a couple of choice retail purchases.[highlights to follow, I was fairly lucky]

I will be getting as precise a measurement as I can, and we can add that to the fire that is the semi-liquid pile of disco-wax that is the hatred for topps' current ABOMINABLE quality control issues in the baseball line.

I will also post all of the first ever product I have ever had the need to send back to the maufacturer ever.

Peytrsun(in an irish accent)

New Post: #250

Just to put that here. moving on...

Brick-a-brack: Wicked Breakdown

Please take a gander at what my man Wicked is up to over here.

he's gonna bust NINETEEN boxes of some real classic wax. The stuff you wanted a box of as a kid, but you were reduced to using valuable Pizza/Streetfighter money or palming a pack here or there. Or maybe you were a good kid and just want to get some bulging team assortment with a few cool inserts and a blast from the days of old (term relative to age of author).

I got the mariners hoping to bolster my Griffey as a Mariner pages.

plus, I am hoping to wrangle some other participants into sending me 86 topps doubles...

send him 19 bucks and have fun with us.

Can't wait to see you there.

peace.