u/js4873

made a fun low dollar trade, and it came on time and we had great communication as well. Def would recommend!

So if mods or others hate this, whatever. I have seen a lot of posts where people wonder why one modern player, despite being very good, doesn't hold as much value as someone else with a less illustrious career. I get why that's frustrating! You're a fan of Vladdy Jr and wonder why his rookie auto goes for the same amount, roughly, as Anthony Volpe.

I was thinking about this, looking through my 80s collection, and I think a great example is Wade Boggs versus Bo Jackson.

Let's talk about stats: Boss Hogg had a 18 season career with 91 WAR. Bo had 8 year baseball career with sub 10 WAR TOTAL!

And yet guess what? A psa 10 Wade Boggs rookie goes for $3k and a Bo topps traded psa 10 rc goes for $1500-2000. Less, sure, but compared to the difference in their careers, that's wild, right?

Except...

Everybody alive during Bo's career 'knows' the 'Bo Knows' commercials. They remember that Score insert with the two-sport star barechested, wearing shoulder pads with a bat over his shoulders.

Bo Jackson was, indubitably, FAR more popular than Wade Boggs ever was. (And I say that as a staunch Red Sox fan!) I remember the DAY Bo got seriously injured on the gridiron. I must have been like 8 or 9 years old? I sobbed.

When Boggs left the red sox for our hated rivals? Eh. Too bad, but ya know it happens.

So I hope maybe for newer collectors especially this example can help people understand why the hobby relies on popularity and cultural narrative more than natural ability and stats. Maybe it shouldn't be that way, but it is.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk lol.

Made a basketball trade and card came fast and well packaged. This is a good user to trade with and def would do again.

I know there’s a lot to be bummed about, but these guys have been good. Chapmans lights out. Gray is good. Bello has had two great games in his new role.

I mean look they’re not making the playoffs this year. But unlike the early goings there are at least some players that are fun to watch.

I’m in my forties so I remember the 90s even but I don’t have any sense of what it was like to be a fan in the 70s and 80s. My dad is a big basketball and baseball guy so that’s what he passed on to me. We never had the first clue what the Pats were up to.
But I was reading Friends of Eddie Coyle which takes place In The 60s and 70s in Boston and there’s a scene where two characters discuss the Patriots. That stood out to me and I wanted to put the question out there and hear some anecdotes about the Patriots of the 70s and 80s.
Thanks!

Edit: thanks for these great anecdotes and memories! Really cool to hear!

So I'm pretty sure I watched this on the Criterion Channel, as it was part of one of their themed compilations. I cannot for the life of me remember the name, but here's what I do remember.

- British

- The lead actor was very tall and overweight.

- It opens on him returning home late at night

- At his house he's greeted by a woman, but also some inspectors who grill him about where he was

- The woman finds something in his coat pocket that leads her to believe he may be guilty

- I looked up the actor (also can't remember his name) and saw he died young, and read more about him. The thing that stood out about him was he was closeted, and before he died someone said they overheard his boyfriend call him a fatso or something

- he died on the operating table in his 30s or 40s

Any luck?

made a small purchase of a Roman Anthony. Arrived on time and well packaged!

Hey I’m hoping someone is willing to part with a few.

Made a fun trade: some roman anthony's for an Elly d la Cruz!

This user offered to sell me 12 Matthew Stafford chrome base buybacks. I paid him $130, and he gave me a tracking number, but the tracking number didn't work. Things started to sound strange (this started last Tuesday, April 28) when he then claimed he included some more expensive cards which he hadn't coined at all, and would I pay him more for those. I said no, and repeated that the tracking number he sent me didn't work AND additionally the name on the paypal account didn't match the return address of the shipping. He claimed it was his roommate who had a printer and he didn't. I stayed civil with him and asked him to check with the post office where he's dropped it. He kept saying he would, but never did. Today I reached my breaking point because it's been nearly a week. I'll include our correspondence in comments.

When I put in a paypal dispute I received a message from the account I was told to send money to, claiming "I didn't sell anything! Someone on reddit asked me to use my paypal account, and that he'd send me money on cashapp". I have no reason to believe this is even true.

I'm continuing to pursue getting my money back.

… it’s cuz he’s a MAD-at-DOOR

Hi!
I love a martini but I recently discovered I have an allergy to linalool which is a terpene… I see your eyes glazing over. Basically it’s an extract of lavender or other very scent forward flowers that gets added to some vermouth and gin for that matter too.
I discovered this when I made a homemade martini and my entire mouth felt tingly and itchy. So badly in fact that I bit my lip in my sleep!

Is it hopeless? Since gin and vermouth both use botanicals would they all necessarily have these types of terpenes? Or could there be some
Brands that don’t use them? And if so is there an easy way to figure that out?

I realize this is a hyper specific question but hoping to find an answer.