“My hypocrisy only goes so far”

The way I approach a custom card might be slightly different than most. For starters, if I'm doing a strait recreation of an existing card, it's to fill a gap in reality. If a person didn't get a card in a certain year, or on a certain team, that's a good candidate...

Seems weird to say "goodbye to summer" in November, but in Texas it's finally dropped below 80°. Baseball is over for the year, we just set the clocks back, the weather is changing, the summer is most definitely over. I refrained from posting a lot over the summer...

I know I wouldn't classify myself in the same league as most of you who trade cardboard on a regular basis. In fact, most of my trades are done with a tiny handful of people. Not that I wouldn't mind making more trades, it's just that I'm horrible at it. I don't buy...

I showed off random team sets earlier this year when several of them hit at once (S1, GQ, etc). Now that the summer has drawn to a close we can take a look at what the past few months had to offer. 2016 Allen & Ginter Ginter is the embodiment, to me at least, of...

I'm calling it. I have completed it. Honestly, I thought I had it completed two years ago, but Topps has this lovely habit of extending parallels into infinity and not really mentioning it anywhere. If you're wondering what the hell I'm talking about and why am I not...

I was fortunate to get my hands on a free box of 2016 Stadium Club thanks to the awesome folks over at the MLBPA and their twitter contests. I hadn't busted any hobby boxes this year, that sort of thing just isn't in my budget, so when I was notified that I won I was...

Now that we're finally deep enough into card season that releases are coming out every few weeks, I can catch up on my team sets. I know it's not glamorous, a little boring, whatever you want to call it, but team sets are still my primary collecting goal. Not hits,...