Comments on: The Coup of the Keyboard Gods http://pitchersandpoets.com/2009/07/02/the-coup-of-the-keyboard-gods/ both have their moments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ted http://pitchersandpoets.com/2009/07/02/the-coup-of-the-keyboard-gods/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Ted Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:46:20 +0000 http://pitchersandpoets.com/?p=589#comment-463 Brad, Fred Durst started collecting about the same time old Hank Azaria up there started wearing his Sportscoat of a Thousand Cards. You're right on about the snapshot idea, literally and figuratively. The card that always embodies my days of card collecting is, randomly, a Leaf Hensley Meulens (the top right in this set here:http://media.photobucket.com/image/hensley%20meulens/kwb1b/Available/Autos/Baseball%20TTM/K-O/img072.jpg). It seemed like there was one of those in every pack, always so disappointingly familiar and expected. A snapshot of underwhelmed expenditure, I guess, and I've saved that card and will for a long time. It has more associative power than my most commercially valuable card. Thanks for stopping by. Brad, Fred Durst started collecting about the same time old Hank Azaria up there started wearing his Sportscoat of a Thousand Cards.

You’re right on about the snapshot idea, literally and figuratively. The card that always embodies my days of card collecting is, randomly, a Leaf Hensley Meulens (the top right in this set here:http://media.photobucket.com/image/hensley%20meulens/kwb1b/Available/Autos/Baseball%20TTM/K-O/img072.jpg). It seemed like there was one of those in every pack, always so disappointingly familiar and expected. A snapshot of underwhelmed expenditure, I guess, and I’ve saved that card and will for a long time. It has more associative power than my most commercially valuable card.

Thanks for stopping by.

]]> By: Brad http://pitchersandpoets.com/2009/07/02/the-coup-of-the-keyboard-gods/comment-page-1/#comment-462 Brad Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:36:27 +0000 http://pitchersandpoets.com/?p=589#comment-462 As your card collecting contemporary I must tell you how much I agree with everything you have written here on baseball cards. An interesting thing I realized about baseball cards recently is that they are a snapshot of who's who in baseball at the time that one quits collecting them (assuming one has stopped). I encourage you to revisit your collection and take note of which players' cards you prized. You're sure to get a few laughs out of it. Regarding that abomination of a video (at 2:46): "Draft pick #01 redemption." Since when does Fred Durst collect baseball cards? ... and I'm pretty sure that's a 10. As your card collecting contemporary I must tell you how much I agree with everything you have written here on baseball cards. An interesting thing I realized about baseball cards recently is that they are a snapshot of who’s who in baseball at the time that one quits collecting them (assuming one has stopped). I encourage you to revisit your collection and take note of which players’ cards you prized. You’re sure to get a few laughs out of it.

Regarding that abomination of a video (at 2:46): “Draft pick #01 redemption.” Since when does Fred Durst collect baseball cards? … and I’m pretty sure that’s a 10.

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