tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post958702113671475384..comments2024-03-28T13:44:09.103-04:00Comments on Night Owl Cards: 16 years too latenight owlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11673973790245316059noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-18880979024244165272012-04-03T20:06:42.455-04:002012-04-03T20:06:42.455-04:00I posted this same thing on Stale Gum and I will p...I posted this same thing on Stale Gum and I will post it again, the piece maybe flawed but it's absolutely right. Baseball cards was and always will be something that kids were to have enjoyed but yes like everything it evolved into a greed driven business. If anyone can say this hobby is successful look at Upper Deck, and the non licence companies making cards. It's a joke yeah the 80's will never make a come back but at least at that time it was fun to collect, now it's like who can spend the most to have the ultimate collectionWhen cards were cardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13218468442506920518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-19394586247774922802012-04-03T08:09:23.561-04:002012-04-03T08:09:23.561-04:00Instead of a basement show on a random weekend as ...Instead of a basement show on a random weekend as their example of the state of the hobby, somebody tell CBS to come to Baltimore in August. I think they'll have a different impression.GCAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14713246271197550543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-21895597825813069652012-04-02T11:40:32.469-04:002012-04-02T11:40:32.469-04:00Also, I would suggest to Topps that they create a ...Also, I would suggest to Topps that they create a true 'heritage' set. No Parallels. No Short Prints. No Minis. No Patches. No Relics. No Autos. NO inserts of ANY kind. 15-18 cards per pack. Boxes with 36 packs. Cheap and old 'grey' stock. 25-30 players per team. 50c per pack. 792 or 924 cards per set. Even without the stick of gum, they would still be desirable. THAT'S how the kids would get back into the hobby. It's not that difficult!beefmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846881597043194968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-47758917548256542072012-04-02T11:29:12.575-04:002012-04-02T11:29:12.575-04:00"You can't compare anything to the ultima..."You can't compare anything to the ultimate. You will always come up short. Baseball will never be like it was in the 1950s. Music will never be like it was in the 1960s. Neon clothes will never be like they were in the 1980s. Just accept it. Stop whining and find what's good in the hobby right now. Because there's a lot of good to be found."<br /><br />That's probably the best 'Era Comparison' paragraph I will ever read. I was born in 1979 and I couldn't agree more!<br /><br />NightOwl, may you be commended for your thoughts!<br /><br />Beefbeefmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846881597043194968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-83406255956475591312012-04-02T10:36:49.075-04:002012-04-02T10:36:49.075-04:00Great writeup! Good point that dealers can tend t...Great writeup! Good point that dealers can tend to be a negative lot - I haven't thought of it that way, but once you point it out, it's like "yes they sure are!"<br /><br />I've gone to the show in White Plains and there's one particular dealer who isn't that way. He's a business person who's trying to make a profit, not someone who's just there whining that things aren't what they used to be. I didn't realize it right away, but I bought some cards from him and he gave me his business card. I realized later that this was an ebay seller who I'd bought cards from quite a few times before.<br /><br />Point is - this company just doesn't go to the card show in White Plains. In fact, I bet he doesn't profit much if at all from the card shows he does (he said he doesn't go to all of them). He goes to some because it probably helps to have that presence, but the cornerstone of his business is clearly online. That's someone who isn't living in the past, and is probably doing ok because of that.<br /><br />-LifetimetoppsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-75543151032523581702012-04-02T02:37:24.188-04:002012-04-02T02:37:24.188-04:00I didn't address this in a post and won't,...I didn't address this in a post and won't, but I don't have the journalism ties you do. The CBS story smacks of laziness. It's as if they took that outdated information and ran with it without putting one ounce of effort into coming up with anything up to date. <br /><br />As an aside, my other problem with TV and Internet media is in their desire to be the first to put out information, they often overlook something as simple as the truth. Facts seem to be secondary to being first. I've experienced that on at least three occasions personally.Play at the Platehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14231140141558021698noreply@blogger.com