I bought a couple of cello packs of 1988 Topps tonight, along with another box of 1989 Score. I told my 8-year old son that whatever I needed out of the Topps packs was mine, the rest he could keep. I ended up getting 29 cards I needed out of 84 in the packs, not [...]
February 29, 2008
Categories: 1988 Topps, 1989 Score, baseball, baseball cards . . Author: JT . Comments: Leave a Comment
Back in the late 1980s, a business man and baseball fanatic got the fantastic idea to put Vida Blue, Rollie Fingers, Ferguson Jenkins, Clint Hurdle, and a host of other former major league baseball players back on the field in what was called the Senior Professional Baseball Association. After two years, though, the league folded.
I [...]
February 29, 2008
Categories: Barry Bonds, Barry Larkin, Dave Stewart, Jose Canseco, Mike Piazza, Ozzie Canseco, Rickey Henderson, Ryne Sandberg, Wade Boggs, baseball . . Author: JT . Comments: 2 Comments
For more quality failings, be sure to visit one of my new favorites, “The FAIL Blog”.
Or maybe you are more into sick, twisted humor. In which case, you should definitely visit Cyanide and Happiness. Observe:
If that’s not your bag, how about cute kitty cats that say adorable things? Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures – I Can [...]
February 29, 2008
Categories: comedy, cyanide and happiness, entertainment, fail, humor, lolcats . . Author: JT . Comments: 5 Comments
Only five players who are eligible for the Hall of Fame have hit 400 or more career home runs without being elected. Only two of those are still on the ballot. Of course, this number will go up in years to come, if others accused of using PEDs become eligible (Palmeiro, Sosa, Bonds, etc.) fail to [...]
February 28, 2008
Categories: Andre Dawson, Darrell Evans, Dave Kingman, Hall of Fame, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, baseball . . Author: JT . Comments: Leave a Comment
Radio talk show host and local Cincinnati legend Bill Cunningham got into a little bit of trouble the other day. It seems that while introducing Senator John McCain at a rally in the Queen City, Cunningham referred to the Democratic front-runner numerous times by his full name, “Barack Hussein Obama.” When questioned whether Obama’s full [...]
February 28, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Bill Cunningham, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, politics . . Author: JT . Comments: Leave a Comment
Click here for one sports card collector’s take on the Oscars. Classic.
February 25, 2008
Categories: Oscars, baseball, baseball cards, movies . . Author: JT . Comments: Leave a Comment
VS.
Coming May 2009…it’s Wolverine vs. a little girl! Both the Wolverine movie and Disney’s Hannah Montana movie are scheduled to be released on the same day. Maybe Logan has finally met his match!
February 25, 2008
Categories: hannah montana, movies, superheroes, wolverine, x-men . . Author: JT . Comments: Leave a Comment
How dare he think he can run for President! He’s not a member of the Democratic or Repuplican party…he can’t be President! Doesn’t he know that only Dems and Reps are fit to be President, that only Dems and Reps can be on the ballot, that only Dems and Reps offer the proper choice for [...]
February 24, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ralph Nader, politics . . Author: JT . Comments: 2 Comments
The blogger at The Hamiltonian has a couple of self-produced “fun cards” in his banner. He also explains how he made them I why he chose the designs he did. As a fellow “fun carder” I liked his selections.
Then Mario at Wax Heaven stumbled across a website that helps you (yes, you!) make custom cards [...]
February 24, 2008
Categories: Josh Hamilton, baseball, baseball cards, fun cards . . Author: JT . Comments: 1 Comment