The First Live Baseball on TV Since the World Series
February 26th, 2011 by slangon

No time for thought out posts today. I have 7 minutes until the first live broadcast of spring training starts. That might not sound like a big deal, but I haven’t watched live baseball in 5 months. I’m excited. I’ve got a beer and a lounge chair and a TV with my name on it. […]

Au Revoir, Frenchy.
September 1st, 2010 by slangon

I don’t care what everyone says. I’ll miss you and your awesome right arm. Just when I was learning how to spell your name correctly, too. By the way, I can’t believe I only have one card of Frenchy as a Met scanned.

Tribe Card Generosity
March 24th, 2010 by slangon

Like a bunch of other folks in this little card collecting community of ours, I recently was the recipient of some major league generosity bestowed upon me by Dave from Tribe Cards as part of his Last Great Tribecards Giveaway. Of course when I say recently I mean about a month ago. What can I […]

Guaranteed Hits, On The Cheap, Part II
December 19th, 2009 by slangon

This is the other half of the $20 I spent for 2 guaranteed hits. The 50% off blaster of 2008 Upper Deck Series 2, touting “One Game Used Memoribilia Card in Every Box! on average”. Let’s see what gems we plucked from this bad boy, shall we. A couple of ex-Metropolitans. Have I mentioned that […]