by Matt | Mar 5, 2012 | Aggravation, Baseball
Anyone want to help me out with this one? This morning I stumbled across this card on ebay…
Anyone want to tell me what’s wrong with that picture? Jason Varitek, blue pin-stripe??? Ok trading card community, can anyone tell me A) If pin-stripes were ever worn for an all-star game, a special event, or anything similar in the past 10 years, or B) did Topps/Bowman really really screw this up?
For the record, it’s a 2007 Bowman Sterling. Also, it’s listed twice on COMC, also with blue pin-stripes!!! Check it out here (regular version) and here (refractor). WHAT IS GOING ON???
by Matt | Mar 5, 2012 | Aggravation, Personal, Web
A quick apology, mostly to Greg, but also to anyone else that’s tried to email me recently at this domain. Apparently, in a fit of spam-related rage, I turned on some ridiculously strict anti-spam measures. I had SpamAssassin set at a 2 (1-10, 1 being the strictest), I had BoxTrapper installed and a mandatory white-list in place. I don’t even remember doing any of that. So, if you were wondering why emails weren’t getting returned or why it was taking days/weeks for me to reply, there you go. Everything I was being sent was either waiting for confirmation that you’re a real person, or was sitting in a spam bucket, waiting to be deleted. Sorry about that. I put everything back at a non-paranoid level, and email should be returning to normal. Carry on.
by Matt | Mar 2, 2012 | Baseball
So, I did something I don’t normally do. I picked up a pre-Red Sox card for a player that may or may not even have a spot in the rotation this year. It was $0.99 with free shipping and I figured “why not”. Normally I wouldn’t have bothered, but on autographs I’m willing to be a little more lenient. If this was just a random base card from his years on the Tigers I would have passed right over it. That, and I really like the “Moments and Milestones” cards for some reason. They just seem kinda classy. Black and white design, nice classic leaf/banner thingy. I dunno, it was cheap, I also like cheap.
I didn’t really think I was going to have a card to show today either, but non-tracking numbered ebay purchases are always a nice surprise in the mailbox, right? Have a good weekend everybody!
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