This comes from Wax Heaven, a popular baseball card collecting site. On Dec. 30 the site will reveal its Waxies, awards for the best design, worst insert etc.
But as a teaser they’ve already revealed their pick for Worst Card of the Year and I think it’s a great choice for a variety of reasons.
The site ran the caption “Should I return? Fuck it. Why not?” below the card, and while I think that caption works pretty well, I’m feeling something more like “Should I chill out at home and watch those three episodes of The View I TiVo’d, or go to Chaps Night at the gay disco?”
It reminds me of a headline I saw earlier in the week I contemplated putting up, but didn’t really feel it was quite worthy on it’s own.
This was from the Trentonian newspaper, the day after the Mitchell Report was released:
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1 Wax Heaven // Dec 19, 2007 at 11:37 am
Thanks for the link!
Yeah, a shitty card from an even shittier brand. A pack of that brand cost $400 and had less than 5 cards in it including a possible game-used patch of the horse Secretariat.
Yeah, a freakin’ horse.
2 DK // Dec 19, 2007 at 12:43 pm
What are they thinking with that picture?
What’s a “game-used patch”? I know what Secretariat is/was.
3 A.S. // Dec 19, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Man, another great Clemens article by Wetzel at Yahoo
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=ArRWRlRgx4cVmQCy..d3lbk5nYcB?slug=dw-clemensquiet121807&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
Quote:
There was no counter to McNamee’s charge, to name just one, that he repeatedly injected Clemens with Winstrol that Clemens supplied during the summer of 1998. There was no comment on the fact that before McNamee claims he began the injections, Clemens was 8-6 with a 3.77 ERA. After the injections, Clemens finished the season on a 12-0, 1.77 ERA tear.
and
McNamee is perfectly believable, in part because he’s a former New York cop who worked for the Toronto Blue Jays when he met Clemens. The Rocket liked him so much professionally and personally he brought him to the New York Yankees. Later, Clemens hired him privately and hailed him as the nation’s finest trainer and a friend.
4 jackson // Dec 19, 2007 at 7:46 pm
That card reminds of those cards from the 70’s where they’d airbrush the logos of a player’s new team over the old one on a players hat.
5 Wax Heaven // Dec 19, 2007 at 9:20 pm
DK, the big thing in baseball cards for the last 5-7 years now are game-used relics. They actually buy up bats/jerseys that have been used in games, chop them up and put them into baseball cards.
Check out the Canseco card on the left I just won. It has a piece of his bat in it.
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc33/WaxHeaven/Wax%20Heaven%20Images/Jose-1.jpg
You can get them for as little as .99 cents or as much as $12,000!
http://completist.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/what-does-11-48777-get-you-these-days/
6 Wax Heaven // Dec 19, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Also, not only are g/u relics popular in baseball cards so are autographs.
So when you buy a box of baseball cards these days you are usually guaranteed 2 g/u and one auto per box, which is freakin’ great. It beats the 80’s when all you could get were pictures on your cards.
7 IronChef // Dec 20, 2007 at 11:42 pm
My favourite part of this story is that McNamee is a RAPIST. He drugged some chick with GHB and fucked her in some hotel pool. He was never charged, the Yankees “Quietly let him go”, but Clemens and Pettite retained him as their trainer.
Classy.
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