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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Featured autograph - Josh Hamilton

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The 25 guys on the Angels 2015 roster grinding it out are the ones who want to be there and the one who didn't is now a Texas Ranger -...
Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Josh Hamilton

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Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Hamilton are the three 'money guys' in the Angels' lineup but at least Trout and Pujols have put ...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Featured autograph - Jose Abreu

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After getting skunked in trying to get something signed by Abreu in-person, I relented to pick up a signed bat - even though he’s probably ...
Saturday, May 03, 2014

My new hobby coming soon - basket weaving

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Out of the bad things that can happen when out at the ballpark trying to get autographs, I lost my book with my visiting players' cards ...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Card shop finds - retro uniform images on 2013 Finest cards

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I grabbed these 2013 Finest base cards of Roy Halladay, Chris Sale and Adrian Beltre - it is fun for me to be able to flip through a handfu...
Monday, October 07, 2013

My cardhoarding misadventures - the struggle to keep collecting viable

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Nothing is ever clean like the way I go about things but it doesn't mean I'm not trying to figure things out - however, at times I ...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Featured autograph - Mike Scioscia

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Every year there seems to be an MLB organization that is outed as having a miserable, laughable, Mickey Mouse atmosphere behind the scenes ...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Collecting A-Fraud

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I sort of miss the mid 2000's when this guy was the best player in the game and trying to flag him down to get something signed meant al...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Featured autograph - Grant Green

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I've seen Green at the Arizona Fall League in 2011 and 2012, but got a couple of new cards [2013 Topps Pro Debut and 2013 Panini USA Ch...
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Monday, July 29, 2013

Albert Pujols - busted expectations

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Pujols was going to be the savior of the organization, making the Angels a national brand in Major League Baseball through the next 10 years...
Monday, April 29, 2013

The Angels have me wondering why I even bother

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As an Angels fan, at times I feel like I'm made to suffer through lackluster performances as the team limps towards the end of April ...
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Saturday, March 09, 2013

2013 Topps Heritage blaster recap

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I picked up a couple of blaster boxes [$19.98 each] and a jumbo rack [$5.97, already recapped ] from a Walmart - I don't like the ide...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

The Braun Advantage

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I pulled a card of Ryan Braun from a break recently and was going to include the following, though it's been about a year since his PED...
Friday, February 01, 2013

A-Rod's road to irrelevance

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With his latest hip surgery , I thought Alex Rodriguez's career was probably over - in a sense where he's not going to have anymor...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Rebooting my core interests in cardboard

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Thinking about the baseball cards I collect, my interest lingers but my lair is in ruins, my collection is in decay - life isn't linear...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Mike Trout

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I don't know what to say to praise Mike Trout even more - there maybe veteran position players like Albert Pujols and Torii Hunter, bu...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Featured autograph - Howard Kendrick

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I got this card signed in-person during the last Angels homestand - Kendrick has been a pretty good signer before Angels home games, thoug...
Monday, August 16, 2010

My baseball card collecting endeavors have gone nowhere

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It is probably no coincidence I'm throwing this up at a time where at least a couple of collectors - have expressed concerns about the...
Friday, April 30, 2010

Baseball cards and me - trying to be honest about my waning interest in cardboard

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I don't feel like I can relate to collecting baseball cards right now because I've just gotten too lazy [in life] to care about them...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The anti-collecting post

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I don't know if I'm really devoted to collecting baseball cards as much as I like the idea of being able to say I still collect afte...
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