I miss baseball

If you want to hate on the Dodgers because of politics, boredom, dislike of LA in general, their flight from Brooklyn or because you're a Giants fan, go right ahead. But please- cool it with the "highest payroll" bs. There are no poor MLB teams or owners. Some teams try- most don't.

What a performance by the Mariners pitching staff. Total domination from pitches 2-100.

On one hand, Marlins Man is at the game. On the other, at least the Fake Marlins Man isn't at the game.

Josh Naylor is such a smart player. M's have got to re-sign him.

For the love of God, MLB app- please bring back local commercials. The last thing I need to hear on repeat are commercials for the app I'm listening to and a greatest hits of cliché post-game quotes. Give me a weird plumbing commercials or awkward charity reads. Please.

Mail day post slightly delayed by sorting my show pickups- but I can't ignore this awesome 1996 Topps Stars refractor reprint of Clyde Drexler's Star rookie.

Hit a biannual card show that's put on in support of a high school baseball team. Its a really great event that allows me to spend hours digging, which I love. On average, all the cards on this thread cost me about twenty cents- the benefit of buying in bulk! Sort one is finished... by decade.

The field conditions at Nats Park are just comically bad now in the 9th.

LOTS of pick ups from today's Lloyd Center card show- all these from 20/$1 boxes. Some outstanding finds.

There's way too much Pokémon at this Portland trading card show. Where are the troops, Mr. Trump???

Last week I found a huge lot of mostly 2020-2023 Prizm, Mosaic, and Optic basketball and football cards on marketplace. Been sifting though them all week- nothing huge, but lots of good stuff. I'll post the finds on this thread. Definitely worth the $50 and nice drive into the country to get them!

This weekend was when I finally knocked out three of my 70s wantlms- rookies of Brett, Yount, and Murray. They're far from mint, but I dont care. Paired with with a never-quite-was-Trailblazer and certified Blazers legend, I'd say this was 45 minutes well spent at a card show.

A few of my favorite pickups from a brief stop at the Lloyd Center card show yesterday. Loved watching Sergio on the Blazers, and the Berlin Wall card had been on my want list for a long time.

My niece or nephew will be able to write this column about my junk wax collection someday.

Another card sorting helper tonight.

The one thing I did pick up from Goodwill today- mystery signed Manfred-era ball for $1.99. Now to figure out who it is...

The little-seen "didn't buy that" post from Goodwill: the Mel Hall Starting Lineup figure. Big yikes.

Going through some cards this afternoon and I found the four Ohtanis I picked up at a show when he was likely at his nadir (winter 2021, post-TJ #1, hit below .200) even though three are Leaf, the combined $4 spent on these seemed like a screaming deal even then. Always go through bargain bins!

Big guy's making it pretty hard for me to finish my 4th of July bindering project...

Hearing "let's go A's" in place of "let's go Oakland" is weird as hell.

Jasson F. Dominguez - what a game for The Martian.

Whoever keeps blowing a whistle at the Yankees game needs to knock it the hell off.

Mission accomplished! Early enough to the Thorns game for my Sophia Wilson card. Go Thorns!

The last couple weeks in cards for me has been 2024 Parkside Pacific NWSL - other than collation, they absolutely killed it with this set, and I killed it on the eight boxes I bought, including an Alex Pfeiffer 1/1.

One of the cool junk-era cards from the huge hockey collection I got a couple weeks ago: 1991-92 BCHL Paul Kariya. It's in sneaky terrible condition with a couple holes in it, but still a keeper!

Gotta love a Zamboni card.

Any Oklahoma Sooners football fans able to help me identify the signatures on this football? No clue what era, but I’d guess late 1980s to mid 2000s based on the yellowing stitches.

Love coming across the Bill Barilko card that inspired a Canadian rock classic.

Happy New Year, everyone.

I know there’s approximately a billion Bob Feller autographs out there, but still- it’s pretty great to find one for a buck.

Got what I thought was two totes of hockey cards for $100… ended up being five. I assumed most world be early 90s, which it is- but there was also a lot stuff from the last five years, including tons of Young Guns and some autos.

Today’s Goodwill find looks like it might be a Ray Lewis signed football.

I recommend that ya’ll watch Cactus League Dodgers vs Reds instead of the speech. Roki’s supposed to be pitching…

Amazing $5 Goodwill find this week- a David Beckham autographed photo and plaque from Adidas, one of 100. I thought for sure that it was a print- but after taking it out from under the plastic cover, it sure appears to be pen over photo.

Nice trip to the local card shop today. The 2001 Topps Chrome Traded Ichiro/Pujols has been on the want list since 2001.

The Hornets aren’t going to be good again until they go back to their old teal, pin stripes, and pleated shorts look.

Holy collation, Topps… found Stadium Club blaster boxes in a retail store for the first time this year. Bought two- the first ten red parallels were all Cincinnati Reds. Two Guardians eventually broke the streak, but at least they kept it an Ohio sweep.

Buried in the giant lot of mostly modern basketball and football cards I bought the other day was this classic 1961 sort of Mickey Mantle card. I’ll take it!

Pretty good little Marketplace find - mostly basketball and football parallels from 2020-2024, but there’s some 80s football and a decent number of newer baseball too. Plus a full top loader binder. All for $100.

I was perusing Goodwill today when I saw a picture frame holding some junk wax era Mariners cards and a few ticket stubs - one from 1999… which turned out to be for the final game in the Kingdome. Pretty cool.

I really do love scouring dime boxes at card shows. Didn’t expect to find a Tim Duncan rookie.

Well, before today I’d never found a baseball at Goodwill that was signed by a Cuban team…

They’re not cards, but I had to show off the great trio of signed Thorns and USWNT jerseys I recently picked up. The US jersey features a lot of the 2015 World Cup team. There’s also the Thorns debut team (NWSL title winners) and a handful of players from another early Thorns team.

Rickey Henderson was my favorite player by a wide margin. He was everything I wanted to be, but could never be. He was blazing fast, powerful, fearless, and ageless. His love for the game was matched only by how much we fans loved him back. He inspired millions of us. I can’t believe he’s gone.

First card-related Goodwill find in a while- most of the 1989-90 Franz Trail Blazers set. Guess we know how someone’s attempt to sell this for $250 went… but I’ll happily pay $5 for the toughest NBA rookies of Drazen and Uncle Cliffy. For non-PNW’ers, these came inserted in loaves of bread.

Eduardo Pérez of the California Angels at the Kingdome, 8/15/93 in my second real MLB game. If we count MLB exhibition games, then it's Gary Gaetti of the Minnesota Twins at Portland Civic Stadium in a game against the Twins' AAA affiliate Portland Beavers on 6/23/88

So are all Topps Chrome Update retail mega boxes chock full of parallels? There were only six base cards in the entire box I got today. No complaints - but I may have to go clean them out if this is a typical box since it was below MSRP…

Got to fanboy Morgan Weaver at the Thorns ticket holder event tonight, and got to see the Rudolph nose lit up for the first time this year as well!

Big mail day in the form of a BGS return. Happy with two 8s and a 9 for my biggest three Sophia Smith cards, though I’m a little mystified at why there was no auto grade on the two signature cards when there was an auto grade for both on the packing slip.