A little while ago, The Dutch Card Guy held a contest with the top prize being a super fancy tricked-out Clayton Kershaw card. To boost your chances of winning you could comment on as many posts on the blog as you wanted. I'm kind of known for being a collector of Kershaws and I once commented on Play At The Plate's blog for a similar such contest around 140 times in one weekend (I was a little bored). So I thought it was the perfect marriage -- obtaining a card of my favorite player through something that had won me cards one other time. I signed up. And started commenting ... only to realize: A) I was too busy to do this. B) Other people were commenting a lot more than I was There are so many more Kershaw collectors out there than there were when I first started collecting him five years ago. So, I gave up and assumed that was a lost cause. But I was only partly right. Sure, getting the Kershaw card didn't happen. But I finished second or third (I don...
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