That Brave hating cat is at it again!

If you had read a few post back you know my cat is met lover that haaaaaaaaaaates Larry Wayne.

It is worse than I first feared however.

First the back story.

The Braves are doing a caravan through the south east where various Braves visit different locations and sigh autographs for the fans. I plan on going Sunday to the one in Evans which include

Freddie Freeman
Jordan Schafer
Jim Powell
Zane Smith


Last night I managed to find two cards of Schafer and Smith that I planned on getting autographed. I had put them on my bed in an effort to get a picture of them so I could upload them to my blog, but none of the pictures turned out right and I soon grew frusterated and ended up abounding the project.

I then grew distracted with something else which could have been the President or the internet or.. something.

THAT WAS WHEN SHE STRUCK! She plopped her fat self right on top of the cards and in the process bent poor scahfer right down the middle. A thing of beauty more.

Only an accident you say? That is what she wants you to think!

The devious Met fan has struck yet again.

TL. DR I need to use my card table as none of this would have happened in the first place.

A Chrismas post you say?

A bit early for a Christmas post? Not according to the television which has been running Christmas commercials since the first of November and the stores with snowmen and Santa out before Halloween. On one isle you can buy a Jason mask and the other a singing Santa.

And me... putting up a life sized Santa at the end of the driveway, which hopefully will not be stolen like both are scarecrows where. Stealing Santa is just wrong though. Stealing baby Jesus from a manger scene is worse, even if he is plastic.

Enough of me rambling though.

Despite it being more than a decade since I have written to Santa, my family still asks for a list of what I want. This year the list is as follows...

1. Three ring binders of various sizes.
2. nine card Baseball holders
3. Padded envelopes of various sizes
4. Stamps
5. Baseball cards.
6. Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince DVD

Noticing a theme? :P

I don't really want that much this year. I don't really need that much. I know people don't have buckets of money and I figure at lot of these things are something they can afford. Plus I'd be happy as can be to receive a large three ringer binder than I would a HDTV. Truelly I would. I already have a TV that works, but not a binder.

My mom has already asked me to save links to the cards I want though as they are utterly clueless when it comes to cards. So long as they are baseball, I'd be happy though.

QUESTIONS (I has them!)

Do you guys have anything baseball/card related that you want this year?


What is the best baseball/sports related gift you have ever gotten?

For me it would be the signed base ball bat by Chipper my Mom go me last year.

Some questions....

Do blaster boxes (of the same product)in a store contain the same cards as each other? What I mean is, if you where to buy two, would you get a lot of duplicates? I've heard varying things, but I would like know if that is the case you buy more than one blaster.

Also, do you keep a binder of your favorite team? I want too, but I have to many cards for that to happen really. I'm thinking about just keeping a binder of my favorite player/s.

And one more question... anyone know a site with a good price on sleeves? (the nine card ones for binders)


Oh, and I got a surprise in my mailbox yesterday! BRAVE CARDS FROM MARIE! I love surprises.

David Wright is a lucky man

In case you haven't yet heard, David Wright was hit in the head by a 94 MPH pitch yesterday. He was sent to the hospital, but luckily was able to go home this morning. You can read more about it HERE.

You can see a youtube video of it HERE.

That was terrifying to watch and he is damned lucky he wasn't hurt worse by it. Without his helmet, he would have likely been killed. I just hope he is able to play again. Although it is better to take the wait and see approach, then to have him come back before he is ready.

Speaking of which, I find it almost ironic that Dinged Corners had a post on safer helmets in baseball.

So Frenchy, after seeing your teammate get beamed by a pitch.. would you still refuse to wear the helmet? After watching that I don't see why any player would refuse such. Better dorky than dead.


On another (and better) note, I am going to start collecting his cards. I decided this yesterday. (before he was beamed)

I have a grand total of 5 cards currently. Yea, wow.

Why him? Well, even if he is a... a.... *cough*Met*cough* he is a good ball player, and from what I hear a pretty good man, which means a lot to me. Besides, I need someone besides a Brave.

That Trading game....

I actually sent off my first cards in the mail on Wednesday to Cracking Wax.

I plan on sending out two more packages next week to Marie at A Cardoard Problem and The Collective Troll.

If feels good to do the sending versus just the receiving and I hope I am able to send out even more in the future. I am also paranoid though. Did I put the right address? Did I protect the cards enough? Did I send the right ones? Did I send the wrong ones? What if it gets lost in the mail?

This is also my first time trading EVER. Never got the chance to do it the old school way as a kid sadly.