I swam the 500 in a dual meet in HS at a small pool with the spectator seating on the deck. I didn't swim great, and walking past the stands my mother looked at me and held her nose. I threw my warmups and towel up in the air and loudly shouted "oh wow my mom thinks I suck!". She wasn't thrilled!

I upgraded my Roush for the #RedsHOFCollection to a proper first-year Cincinnati card

Despite SGC still advertising 15-20 business day turnaround, this fella just got back from a 2.5 month vacation. It's mind-blowing to me that there's a PSA 10 floating around out there of this 120-year-old card

HEY... WAIT... Cacio e pepe

Welcome home buddy! Good vibes in Cincinnati this year

Oh man the Weather Channel disrespect for Joe Morgan

First mail day that the card was completely mummified in saran wrap, so that's something

You could make a pretty good argument that the only AFC North coach who really truly deserved to be removed from his team after this season is the only one returning.

I was a big fan of Pardee's P70 and GPKxMLB cards but haven't bought too many of the ones he drops on his site. But he did a spin on the Griffey Upper Deck RC and I ended up with a couple Spiderman variants #cardsky

Very exciting to get my new Displ a y frame for spo rts ca rd delivered today

I've been taking the #BengalsROHCollection pretty slow, but I was pretty happy to pick up this pretty clean Lemar Parrish RC Honestly I'm not sure I'd seen a 1971 Topps football card before I started looking for this one.

The summer before UMD won the national title I was walking in Rehoboth and Gary Williams rode past on a bike and I said "hey that's Gary Williams" and he shot me the iciest look I've ever gotten in my entire life

Excuse me? Bengals what now?

[Linda Richman voice] I'm getting verklempt... Talk amongst yourselves... I'll give you a topic - the Universal Basic Income described below is neither Universal nor Basic... Discuss!

Look there are only so many pictures of a guy who played for [checks notes] 23 seasons

I guess I should have watched more

The autos are stickers, no thank you.

I took one of my kids to see Back to the Future in the theater last night and I forgot that the plan to get the timeline back on track quite literally started with: Step 1: I will sexually assault my mother

God as my witness I'd rather throw the whole #RedsHOFCollection in the damn trash than buy a Zack Cozart RC www.mlb.com/reds/news/re...

Normally for the #RedsHOFCollection I wait until they're graded to share, but I'm pretty jazzed about this one. Cy Seymour has a couple T206 but he's with NY, and this 1906 Fan Craze is his only normal-size card with the Reds. Never thought I'd get one #cardsky

Welp

Too much time left with this defense.

Oh no, what'll they do without a kinda ok fielder whose best case scenario is a slap single through the right side of the infield?

I have nothing against Danny Graves, but for some reason buying a first -year Reds card and paying to grade it was a deeply unpleasant experience. Anyway here's the Reds all-time saves leader for the #RedsHOFCollection

Vladdy just booped home plate

Over there? OVER THERE?!?! Motherfucker you're the head coach, there is no 'over there'

Seriously you can't keep this guy anymore. Imagine being a head coach in your seventh year and saying something like this

If the Bengals were a serious organization they'd fire Taylor after that. They won't because they're not, but that was a fireable offense.

What exactly does this guy think his trade value is? He got benched by one of the worst defenses in the league! www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Ontario buying ad time during game 7 and just playing a Reagan clip about tariffs and trade? Wat?

Another addition to the #BengalsROHCollection - Corey Dillon. My god the swagger on this card. Find me a guy who had this much swagger on a draft pick card and 100% lived up to it like Dillon did

Pointing out the obvious that 'AI sucks' and 'holy cow it's transformational' are not mutually exclusive. Like the addition of AI to Google search fundamentally changed the product for the worse

[Wacko levels intensifying]

I've seen this Bengals movie before and I don't like how it ends.

Topps: hey Andy, did you finish up that self-portrait we can use as a SSP in your new set? Andy Friedman: sure did Topps, real fuckin sexy just like you asked Topps: what

I have an extremely half-baked analogy where Elisabeth Sparkle represents the Nixon GOP, Sue is Ronald Reagan, and we're currently living through the Monstro ElisaSue New Year's Eve special.

It appears that Flacco has cracked the code that Browning couldn't figure out: fuck it, Ja'Marr is down there somewhere

My god that catch by Chase just now, holy shit.

wife: What's wrong? you're barely touching your Skyline me: [heavy sigh] I don't know, I guess I'm wacko for Flacco now.

Had a couple of these come in the mail today and man, Topps should make every hobby box like this where you can use it for storage

The Flacco signing really robbed us of a completely bananas year of Jameis with the Bengals.

I'm sorry

I don't even know who's behind Browning but what's the worst that could happen if you give him a shot the rest of the game?

Like my #RedsHOFCollection, I started a #BengalsROHCollection as well. First up is Tim Krumrie. It's not really fair to him that his legacy is his leg flopping around like a pool noodle in the Super Bowl but that's what happens when you're 8 years old and they show the replay 20 times

I'm not on year 3 of watching my kids play middle school field hockey, a game that appears to have these two foundational concepts: 1. Fuck you if you're left handed 2. Godzilla is goalie

This Bengals team is trash. This is a 90s era game and not a fun one with Jeff Blake.

So the punt returner bobbles it directly into a defender who has pulled up and it's interference? What?

Celebrating a Reds playoff berth the only way I know how

Little prediction that I'm going to put a pin in - Connor Phillips will take over as the Reds closer at some point in 2026