Okay Everybody, Stay Calm. But We're Pulling a Baltimore Colts
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3y ago
Keep calm and carry on, mates. But I am in the middle of major changes. The backstory goes like this - Last fall I launched Faraday Sports Marketing. An attempt to leverage my experience and relationships in sports into building websites and doing social media development and consultation. I built three websites before Amanda and I went to Ireland. When we got back from Ireland, sports just like...kinda stopped. The domain has languished for the last year. Instead of letting the domain expire, I've decided to move this blog to that domain name and consolidate this blog and the upcoming (and ..read more
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Stumbled Across Pack-Pulled Mike Trout & Bryce Harper Pre-Rookies
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3y ago
  I decided to cheat a little bit on the $50 challenge. I decided to go through the books of cards I've gotten in the last few years to put together a modern shipment for Comc. In my minor league book, I just so happened to run across a couple really interesting cards. These 4 cards are the big hits from some packs of 2018 Panini Stars & Stripes and 2011 Topps Heritage minor leagues. During the 2010's I would just grab some cheap packs of cards at Target just to scratch the "I want to open cards" itch. Out of the 2018 Stars & Stripes cards, I hit a bunch of autos and relics. The ..read more
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The $50 Collection Challenge
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3y ago
 I was inspired by a YouTube video series that I stumbled into the other day. The series featured a person's quest to build an "impressive" video game collection with just $10. The idea is that you start with $10, flip for profits until you can afford to keep some of your favorites, and continue to buy & flip with the fund you originally funded with the tenner. I mean, yeah, a lot of people have done it. Why in my 42 years traversing the solar system I never considered doing it myself is a mystery that will be unsolved. I decided to give myself a $50 challenge.  I have some car ..read more
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2020 Phillies Team Set (1971 Style)
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3y ago
I've been hitting the Topps Bunt app wicked hard lately. In the last couple of weeks I've built a pretty good collection. I'm close to having a complete set of Bryce Harper common (48 of 54). I'm only missing two Harpers as a Philly, and both are from the "Welcome to Philly" subset. My focus on Bunt is PC'ing Bryce Harper, Alec Bohm, Mike Schmidt & Steve Carlton. But Bunt also has a lot of throwback designs. They've been keeping pace on the Heritage & Archive drops, but also putting out some nice "Cards That Never Word". I've kind of gotten obse ..read more
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MLB Look Back: San Francisco Giants' Greatest Hits
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3y ago
  The third team in our "Best of the Bigs" uniform series is the San Francisco Giants. The Giants are one of the few teams in baseball to not feel the need to have blue or red as part of their imaging (Oakland moved away from blue & red when they left Shibe and moved west to Kansas City). Orange and black are one of my favorite uniform color combinations, and the Giants have done it very well for a very long time. The modern set, which leans heavily on the team's past is a classic, timeless look that always feels fresh, sharp and almost always stands in strong contrast against wha ..read more
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A Call to Custom Card Designers: 2021 Collaborative Card Set
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3y ago
2021 Phillies Team Set ('85 Donruss design) I'm working on switching back and forth between Windows and Linux and back. So I don't have Photoshop right now. But I felt like doing some cards. These were done using Pixlr.  I've always liked the '85 Donruss set. Might be my favorite Donruss design. Especially compared to the garbage they're producing now. Anyway, I missed pretty much the entire season. Wasn't much motivation to watch any sports this year.  But the Phillies had a perfectly middling year.  But, one of the young guys we've been anxious to see, A ..read more
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MLB Look Book: D-Backs Hot Take Ahead
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3y ago
 We're spending this off season looking at some of my favorite MLB uniforms. Maybe we will get back to non-MLB looks, but right now, we're sticking to the bigs. I started a couple days ago with my favorite Phillies' uniform, the 1989 roadies. Today we're going out on another limb, and talk about what I like about the current Arizona Diamondbacks set. To start, I wish teams like the D-backs would move away from the color red.  There are so many teams that incorporate red into their logo, that we really don't need anymore. But I do like the deep Sedona Red on this kit. It draws the ..read more
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Dipping into Sabermetrics: Cape Cod League
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3y ago
Major League Baseball has created their own summer college leagues. Which I'm afraid will be incredibly detrimental to the established summer college leagues, three of which operate up here in New England (the Cape Cod League, Futures League & New England League). The Cape being the most storied & gloried of all leagues.  That made me curious how these new MLB-sponsored leagues will effect leagues like the Cape Cod League, and how the Cape Cod League has effected Major League Baseball. But let's narrow that down. We all know that a measurable percentage of Major League alums hav ..read more
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MLB Look Book: Philadelphia Phillies 1989
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3y ago
Taking on non-MLB/MiLB team uniforms is just a crazy task. The nice, universal graphic styles aren't there like football. So yeah. We're going to switch it up. Let's take a look at my favorite Major League Baseball uniforms & logo sets. It's no secret that I grew up as a Philadelphia Phillies fan. So let's start with the Phillies. The 80's powder blue road set is kind of everyone's favorite Phillies' look. But there was a short period of time between the powder blues and the current incarnation of the Phillies' look that I think is wildly overlooked. In 1989 the Phillies started a s ..read more
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Not the MLB 1: Gary SouthShore RailCats
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3y ago
 Last September I did the Not the NFL series, where I put together a football league based on dope uniforms and cool helmets. So, with not much else going on, at least until the NHL thinks they get underway in January, let's revisit that idea for baseball. We'll be looking at my personal favorite non-Major League (and probably non-MiLB teams) uniforms. I don't know how many we'll look at. But we'll keep it fun. Gary SouthShore Railcats League: American Association (2011 - ), Northern League (2002-2010) Hometown: Gary, IN Stadium: US Steel Yard Championships: 2005, 2007, 2013 Divisio ..read more
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