Another interest

I am normally a baseball card collector. No other sports really interest me, though football on Sundays after the baseball season is a nice way to pass the time during the vapidness of the weekend in anticipation of the gloriousness that is Monday and the work week. I look at Monday as a sunrise. Even then, I prefer listening to football games on the radio while raking leaves or doing other outdoor projects. 

But I do have another interest and that other interest fortunately has collectible trading cards. While I normally love to hate on the Allen & Ginter product for its baseball cards, I actually do not mind them so much in the non-sports category. Which led me to buy recently, when I learned of it, this 2024 mini insert Swamp Creatures card for the Great Blue Heron. The swamp creatures insert in one on only 53 insert sets. 

I truly enjoy all herons. Though to be honest the egret doesn't do as much for me as the more colorful ones.

I like this card and find it beautiful. But I'm baffled why it's a "baseball" card and not a non-sports card. I have bookmarked the Great Blue Heron in the non-sports area of TCDB, but the above card isn't showing because it's not considered "non-sports". But if I search "Heron" in the "Baseball" category, it doesn't come up, either. (I found out the answer is that it had to be "linked" to the Great Blue Heron, so it's now appearing under its pid heading. I love that they have "Player IDs".) Do you collect anything like this?

To bring in a little baseball... This is reason number 7,826 that MLB hates baseball and hates its fans. The reason is that they continue to let people like ARod, Ortiz and Jeter get in front of a camera, and John Smoltz get behind the mic. No. This needs to stop. What MLB should do is promote its regular season TV play-by-play and other crew on the national level. The radio guys get to call the games. Why can't the TV people? I am sure there are contractual reasons why John Kruk and Tom McCarthy can't do Phillies games in the postseason, but MLB is squandering the opportunity to allow these wonderful game callers and personalities promote and represent the team, the city, and the sport.  

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