Resuscitation

Sometimes when I visit my parents, my dad has bumper cards for me and I try, mostly in vain, to trade or give them away. My want list is small on TCDB, and it's focused really on Strawberry and Kruk. Which might make the potentiality of trades even smaller. But recently I upgraded from a reprint of the last card of a Hall of Fame Player to The Real Thing; and I was able to move the reprint via a trade. 

I had abandoned trading a few months ago; it just really isn't worth it. And, to boot, the price of stamp just shot up which makes it even more unlikely to succeed in PWE trades. However, I did work one and I got back was a 2013 Panini Select Prizm Darryl Strawberry.

The card has a sort of gold shine to it compared to the non-Prizm, which looks silvery, in hand.

With the All-Star Break upon us, I lament that the Home Run Derby won't be on regular television and will this be unwatchable by me. But the product in the recent years hasn't really been worth the time anyway. So... thank you? I'll save an hour of my life? It starts too late anyway, but I've given up hope of ever watching any of these marquis events unless it's on replay. Hell, even the only time I've ever watched a full World Series game was when I was fortunate enough to be in Victoria, British Columbia when it was on.

This whole "Legacy" All-Star thing has got to stop. I know Kershaw was the pick last year. It's lame. And it's lame this year with hanger-on Verlander. Kershaw, Verlander, and Scherzer are guilty of not wanting to retire in the same year so that they don't have to share the Cooperstown stage when they are inevitably elected into the Hall of Fame. Because Kershaw announced his last year, it meant we have to suffer through watching these aging arms struggle through another year. Verlander pitched his one game and then has been in the IL ever since, cashing checks at the Tigers' expense. Scherzer seems to be trying harder, though it is often uncomfortable to watch. I can't see a world in which he retires this year too. Though I might be wrong; I often am. So I foresee "Mad Max" not being signed next year, but not retiring either.

Most of the "All-Stars" aren't really all-stars so maybe it's not so bad, after all, that I won't stay up for more than the first inning to two.

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