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| A Bold Bluff - C.M. Coolidge |
1. Do you collect baseball cards?
2. Do you collect basketball cards?
3. Do you collect football cards?
4. Do you collect hockey cards?
5. Do drifters tend to mysteriously vanish in your area?
6. What happened to D.B. Cooper?
7. Explain your JFK assassination theory in one sentence.
8. Do you prefer card acquisition posts or collection highlights posts? Neither?
9. Do you think of music by song or by band / artist?
10. Are you building any of the following baseball sets: 1993 Leaf, 2021 Topps Big League, 2021 Topps, 2022 Topps?
11. Are you building any of the following football sets: 1982 Topps, 1983 Topps, 1984 Topps, 1985 Topps, 1989 Pro Set, 1990 Score, 1991 Fleer, 1991 Score, 1991 Topps, 1992 Pacific, 1993 Score, 2019 Leaf Draft?
12. Should we ban the penny?
13. Are you on TCDB?
14. Do you have a 1982 DK Carlton Fisk you would like to trade me?
15. Where were you when the Eagles blew out the Patriots in Super Bowl LII?
16. What's the last good book you've read?
17. Explain Gary Pettis's 1989 Upper Deck card.
18. Should legendary Phillie Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame?
19. Are you building any of the following hockey sets: 1990-91 Upper Deck, 1990-91 Bowman, 1990-91 Topps, 1991-92 Topps, 1991-92 OPC, 1998-99 Topps, 2007-08 Upper Deck Victory?
20. If you collect baseball cards, do you have a favorite era: old-timey (pre-1957), vintage (1957-1979), the Bob Walk era (1980-1993), modern (1994-2022)?
Since you made it this far, here's a picture of Justin Verlander's wife:
I'll have to write out my responses on a blog post.
ReplyDelete1. YES
5. haven't seen any.
9. Elvis/ Olivia Newton-John are at the top of any list.
Always good to see a picture of Mrs. VERLANDER.
Challenge accepted!
ReplyDelete1-4 – Yes. Caveat for basketball in that its only certain 90s sets and vintage
5 – What if I’m the drifter?
6 – He got away and lived well for awhile
7 – Not a conspiracy
8 – Both are staples of blogging and if makes one happy keep at it.
9 – Good one. Probably start with band/artist
10 – All complete when I get the ’22 factory set
11 – All complete with caveat that I do not chase any modern Leaf sets
12 – Yes. Its useful purpose has passed by.
13 – Yes
14 – No ☹
15 – Australia for work. Yeah, I missed my Pats getting it handed to them
16 – Ahhh, good question. I am reading the collected works of H.G. Wells right now though
17 – Looks at front and thinks “Interesting blank nothingness, definitely new wave.”
18 – Yes
19 – All complete except the Victory set which I’m not chasing
20 – All eras, though vintage is definitely more challenging to chase and 90s have all the innovations
Hopefully Justin isn’t aware of this blog!
1. Yes.
ReplyDelete2. No, but I still have my old ones.
3. Ditto.
4. Ditto.
5. Not that I know of.
6. Pretty sure he's messing with my Blogger sign-in right now.
7. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
8. Collection highlights, I guess.
9. Some of both, but more by artist, I suppose.
10. I mean, I've got some cards from all of those sets, and I'm open to acquiring more, but I'm not actively trying to complete them.
11. No.
12. I kind of like the penny, but in Singapore they got rid of it years ago, and it's really not a problem, so I suppose I wouldn't be too upset about it.
13. No.
14. I don't think so, but I'll keep an eye out.
15. Singapore.
16. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.
17. He was given a prototype card to hold.
18. Yeah, probably, but at the same time it's his own fault. I wouldn't support letting him work in baseball, but I'd support putting him in the Hall. Joe Jackson too.
19. No.
20. Vintage, but I collect all eras. (Well, my pre-1952 collection consists of one T206, because I'm cheap. But if I could get older cards cheap, I'd be happy about it!)
1. Yes
ReplyDelete2. Yes, but not nearly as much as I used to.
3. Yup.
4. No.
5. It's possible, it would certainly explain why I never see any.
6. He survived the jump, but was killed by someone else shortly thereafter.
7. Aliens.
8. I'll click on both.
9. Song.
10. No.
11. No.
12. No.
13. Sort of.
14. If I did, I would; but I don't, so I can't.
15. I don't know, I haven't watched a Super Bowl in years.
16. The Secret Garden.
17. I'm not familiar with that one.
18. Sure, but not while he's still alive.
19. Nope.
20. I guess I'd go with pre-'57, but's pretty much moot at this point, as I can't really afford most of what I'd want from then anymore.
* but it's pretty much moot...
DeleteThis should be fun. Looking forward to a post where we see the results.
ReplyDelete1. Yes
2. No
3. Somewhat
4. No
5. Opposite - we've been having unidentified body parts wash up on our beaches for years.
6. No idea. Probably got too clever for his own good.
7. Someone egged Oswald on but it was a very small group (1 person?) and we'll never know who.
8. Either if they're interesting enough
9. Band
10. Halfheartedly doing each year's base Topps sets
11. Halfheartedly doing '70s and '80s Topps football sets
12. No
13. Yes, slowly building out my tradelist there
14. No. Could you use Phil Niekro or Dave Parker?
15. At home with my family. Amused that Brady can't beat the NFC East. Brady wouldn't have been the goat if he had to play in that division, instead had regular seasons full of pushover games against the Jets, Bills, Dolphins . . .
16. I used to read on the train every day. Pandemic killed that good habit of mine. I should start doing it again.
17. Either prototype or some photo manipulation. Photo manipulation been going on for decades before photoshop, almost from the beginning of photography.
18. Yes. They're pretty much letting in anyone who had a decent long career anyway (Baines, Kaat etc) so it's not even much of an honor anymore.
19. No. If you are I may have some to trade, still have some hockey randoms from the 90's but I don't know which sets
20. All vintage, late 60s/early 70s probably hold a special place in my heart
1. Yes
ReplyDelete2. No
3. Yes
4. No
5. Not that I know of
6. Don't know but would be interesting to find out
7. Don't have a theory, mainly because I'm more interested in actual facts
8. Both
9. Song
10 2021 Topps, 2022 Topps
11. 1989 Pro Set
12. No
13. Yes, gotta love TCDb
14. Nope, sorry
15. Don't remember exactly where I was but I'm sure I was in front of a TV somewhere watching the game
16. Sayonara Slam by Naomi Hirahara, a mystery novel set in part at the World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium
17. I don't collect or even pay attention to UD, so I don't know what that card looks like
18. No
19. No
20. Vintage, specifically 1969-1975
1. Yes
ReplyDelete2. No
3. No, but I have some
4. No, but I have some
5. Only if they try to cross under the troll bridge
6. He lived out the rest of his days with Amelia Earhart
7. Ever watch "Bubba Ho-Tep"?
8. Either is fine, I prefer variety
9. By song, specifically the one catchy lyric that gets stuck in my head.
10. Not building any of them at the moment, but 1993 Leaf would be one to get to eventually.
11. No
12. No, then my loafers would get too expensive...
13. Yes (Kep75)
14. I don't have an extra to trade, sorry
15. Super Bowl party at my in-laws' house
16. "Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging 70's"
17. It's his little brother again...
18. Yes, but not before Shoeless Joe Jackson
19. No
20. I can't help but have a soft spot for the Bob Walk era...
1. Yes
ReplyDelete2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. No idea. I hope not.
6. He lived.
7. No idea.
8. Collection highlight posts.
9. Both. But if I had to pick one response: artist/band.
10. Not at the moment.
11. Not at the moment.
12. Nah.
13. Yup.
14. Don't think so.
15. Home
16. Once by Morris Gleitzman
17. No clue.
18. Yup.
19. Not at the moment.
20. Bob Walk era (1980-1993)