My only saving grace would be a card sop opening up nearby so that I could snag up a few singles here and there,but that's not happening anytime soon.Hobby shops have gone the way of the dinosaur.
I have,however,been searching ebay for graded rookie cards of guys who used to be studs but because of the whole steroid thing,have become very affordable.I thought about doing this after unearthing my graded Manny Ramirez from a box the other day.I thought,what the hell,for the price of one graded Mike Trout I could build an army of graded rookie cards of suspected and admitted steroid studs that include guys like Juan Gonzalez,Albert Belle,Kevin Maas,etc! They'd have to be 9 or better and preferably PSA.So that's what I'll be focusing on ,that and the usual Mets singles.
Oh,and I've got a couple packages to pass on,hopefully by this weekend.One's going out to Matt of Bob Walk The Plank who I can't thank enough for stopping by and commenting on a regular basis ,even If It's just to hear me lament and complain.Also ,my good buddy Mark Kaz recently sent me some cardboard goodness,bolstering my Markakis and Canseco stash,so one of these will be headed his way.And last but not least,I've had a stack of Cubbies put aside for Dimebox Nick for the longest,hopefully I can get all three of these out by the weekend or early next week.
I've been on a little hiatus from new purchases myself. The desire is there, but I've had so many other things pop up recently that I had to cool the spending. Usually when this happens I just talk more about my other interests like travel, beer and misc baseball junk that I own.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout out. Hope you find a couple packs of Topps Bunt.
Thanks,buddy ;)I may take your advice and ramp up the odd ball,off topic posts.
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