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Vvvergeer
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| Saturday, October 26, 2019 2:47 PM | |
So I'm driving home and there's a red wagon, surrounded by about six kids -- about four to ten years old -- and one is holding up a sign that says "Baseball Cards." I must stop of course. And I look through what they've got. It's nothing I really care about or don't have. 90s and 2000s stuff, mostly. But it was so good to hear these kids go on with enthusiam about their cards. "Here's a Bryce Harper rookie! And here's a Mike Trout! And Derek Jeter." And a 1984 Sandberg was in there, somehow. There was one adult, reminiscing, but mostly really little kids totally into the cards. I resisted from telling them that piling them all scattershot in a box wasn't really the best way to go. The Harper, which was actually a variation, already had a big crease in it. They weren't treasuring the cards like precious things to care for, but they were appreciating the players on the cards, handling the cardboard, showing it to each other and me.
I hadn't seen anything like that in a long time. Heck, even when I go to my card shop, it's all middle-aged men in there.
So, in case you doubt, there are actual little kids who still collect and care. It was kind of heart-warming, actually.
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aint56cool
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| Saturday, October 26, 2019 3:11 PM | |
Wow. I guess you're right then, there is hope. Good to hear.
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Vvvergeer
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| Saturday, October 26, 2019 3:23 PM | |
I went back on my dog walk and gave them the only two doubles I had lying around (I always sell everything off right away) -- a 1954 Paul Smith and a 1967 Phil Regan. They immediatly violated my one condition -- no fighting over them. They also didn't thank me or fully understand what it meant to have a 65 year old card. But maybe someday one of them will be going through his collection and think, "Oh, yeah, I got this beat up old Paul Smith card for free from some dude walking his dog...."
Paid way forward....
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mzentko
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| Saturday, October 26, 2019 3:29 PM | |
nice story, thanks for sharing!
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bkim
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| Saturday, October 26, 2019 3:57 PM | |
There is hope even if the overseers of the game don't know they need it.
Tonight game 4 of WS but ND vs MICH on and a couple more football games. Lets see who pulls in largest USA watching numbers I saw a article from a onlinr sports news service covering MSL that when they have a national game on TV only about 300,000 people are watching They would not fill Michigan's Alabama's and Oklahoma's University stadiums combined on a day of bad weather that they do
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Robert “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped and summer was gone.” ― A. Bartlett Giamatti robertkimble.us/tradingcards
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llafoe63
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| Monday, October 28, 2019 10:52 AM | |
An MLB season consists of up to 4,875 games (not counting MiLB, which adds 18,720 games), an NFL season consists of 513 games. MLB may be playing too many games?
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spazmatastic
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| Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:09 AM | |
I've been saying the same thing for 20 years! Too many games in the season. BUT, look at ticket prices for different sports. The more games in the season, the cheaper the tickets. I've been to 2 MLB games in totally different states and both times cost less than $20/ticket to sit in the low in the outfield seats with a great view of the whole field. A ticket for an NFL game at the top of the stadium where you really can't see anything is over $50! To even get decent seats costs well over $100 per ticket. To get as close to the field in an NFL stadium as I got at MLB games costs $300+! NASCAR races are completely opposite. The closer you get to the track, the cheaper the prices. The higher up you go, the more expensive the tickets get. That is for just one reason though - the view. The higher you are, the more of the track you can see. Up-close has the infield garage areas blocking your view of at least part of the track. The top level of NASCAR only has 36 races each season (not counting the All-Star race and qualifiers for it and the Daytona 500). But the cheapest tickets (on the front row right at the track level) are about $40-$50 each.
I think the real issue for viewership for THIS World Series is the teams playing in it. Yes, Houston is the 4th largest city in the US and D.C. is the capital of the country. But the viewers would probably be tripled (or more) if it was the Yankees and Dodgers playing.
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Thick McRunfast
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| Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:03 AM | |
To get this thread back on track, that is a very cool story, Vvvergeer. Just like the good ol' days of card collecting.
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