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Posted By: JimCrandell
The departure of posters with knowledge of particular sets is being replaced by knowledge of people about graded cards and card restoration. I would take Kevin over one of these guys anyday. All kinds of new posters with knowledge about graded cards. Doesn't mean I am right--just means that there is room for all kinds of posts relating to pre-war cards.Graded and non-graded. This is the way the hobby is going. Posts related to graded-cards are still less than 50% of all posts so there is plenty of room for expansion. We are just scratching the surface of what to talk about regarding graded cards and issues surrounding them. |
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Posted By: John S
Jim, |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
John. Thats your right(to place little weight). I think pop reports are a great barometer of relative scarcity. But I am talking about all aspects of graded cards when I say we have just scratched the surface. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Ted Z. and Jim C. are different personalities and collect in entirely different ways, but each is passionate about his area of the hobby. So I think the best solution here is tolerance towards how someone else collects. Jim hasn't found a better way, nor has Ted. I'll call it a draw. |
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Posted By: Jake
Accusation? Hardly, simply speaking what others who come to the board think. People who have a great amount of knowledge on pre-war cards. People who have great collections. They don't post here, simply lurk and try to find something worthwhile in between the garbage. Sometimes they buy/sell but that's about it. They see what goes on here and feel no need to be part of a message board titled "Net 54 Vintage Baseball Card Forum" that is riddled with hedge fund/Joe Torre/Colorado Rockies threads. |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Barry, |
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Posted By: barrysloate
The hedge fund thread kind of straddled the on/off topic line. It dealt with one aspect of vintage cards- that is their investment potential. On the other hand, the number of collectors on this board who care about the relationship between hedge funds and baseball cards they will never be able to afford is minimal. Nevertheless, it wasn't technically off topic. |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Barry, |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Jake, here is a challenge I present to you or anyone else that cares to take it on: |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Jim, that thread is also proof that people will chime in on a topic they know little about, yet they won't chime in on a card question. Go figure shrug |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Jim- it did get a lot of responses at that. I guess I just felt its scope was narrow. |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Jay, |
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Posted By: Alan
Jay - of course, my response on this posting last night was in jest |
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Posted By: leon
Jake, |
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Posted By: Joann
Look at it this way, with me as the star example. I don't have the breadth and depth of knowledge of those that used to post here regularly and some of those that still do. So would it be more harmful to this board to lose 90% of the people that know more than me, or 90% of the people that know the same as me or less? I think that pretty much says it all. |
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Posted By: Anonymous
Please show us ONE POST, just one, where some someone here was attacked (doesn't even have to be me) for asking vintage baseball card related question. |
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Posted By: JakeBushi
Jake, |
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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
JAKE |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
Jake, |
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Posted By: JakeBushi
Just as you are skeptical of what other people have told me at card shows (dealers) I can easily say the same of what people have told you. That's just how the world goes, unless we were with each other at the given time, neither of us can prove a thing. However, I did in fact meet a couple of people who have told me this. Not that they get attacked, simply spoken to (saying typed to sounded strange) as if they were being spoken down to, disrespected, for no reason at all. |
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Posted By: Bob
Perhaps the easiest way to read the posts is to go to the index (front) page and just skip the topics you are disinterested in. I do think the card question posts deserve to be answered, especially when someone new here asks the question. I try my best to always chime in but if the question pertains to pre-1900 or Cogan Chips or strip cards or some set I have limited (if any) knowledge of, I'd like to think someone ask will chip in. |
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Posted By: E, Daniel
No doubt at all what Lee is saying is true, there is less meat to many of the card threads and fewer of the hobbyists who used to give opinion now do. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
I think the board has always been considerate and welcoming to first time posters. I know it can be intimidating to make one's first post because nobody wants to look silly. But we've always gone out of our way to make newbies feel at home, and have always encouraged them to stick around. |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
To elaborate a little more on Barry's thought of the E94 thread. I think it is all right to ask another question within that post that would be tied to the E94 without hijacking the thread. That is how many good threads get extended and are more enriching. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Hey Lee- how do you do the frowning face? I can do the smiley and the blinking, but forgot how to do the other one. Thanks. |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
I would also like to add that after the initial confusion of his first post, I think that Jake did a nice job of giving the "newbie" side of entering the forum and it's current guidelines. |
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Posted By: LetsGoBucs
As an occasional reader and less occasional poster that considers baseball cards a hobby and something to be enjoyed, I'd say that there isn't anything wrong with some periods of time where there aren't as many posts "true" to the core of the cards. |
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Posted By: Gilbert Maines
"Not everyone pursues their hobby on an everyday basis". |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Gil, that's funny. One of my favorite episodes ever. |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
It seems like there is a fair number of response that imply if the board is quite they there must be something posted to keep it active. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Those are the two street toughs who steal Elaine's armoire. |
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Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Sorry Lee, |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Silent knowledge isn't any better than no knowledge at all. Claims of knowledgeable lurkers are about as valid as those of Bigfoot sightings until proven otherwise. |
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Posted By: Joann
In the most supreme irony imaginable, the issues of focus, gravity of the board, influence of its members, and retention of the knowledge base may very well be resolved by ..... advertisers! |
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Posted By: Larry
I find it humorous when the people who bemoan the loss of veteran posters are the same ones who contributed to their hasty exit. |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
Larry can we please have some clarification to your accusations, other than my brother who really has more people in his corner than people like to think. Who has responded that you think have driven these "old timers" away. |
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Posted By: Joann
Dang Lee. I thought he was talking about me, and was just sitting here trying to think of what I may have done or been doing to drive away some of the long-standing board members. |
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Posted By: DMcD
Joann: You are a girl. I like that in a person. |
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Posted By: Larry
I wish there were more female posters. You can tell that Joann is a good person and knowledgable too. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Joan, you drive people away because girl have kooties. This is supposed to be like the He-man Woman Haters Club :-p |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
Larry, care to answer my question or just make the generalization and not back it up? |
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Posted By: leon
I believe we will need to know who you are to get into this kind of conversation, per the forum rules. Nothing personal...I am not saying I agree or disagree with you but you need to be well known to the board or put your full name out here to make these kinds of comments..... please email me privately too...take care... |
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Posted By: DMcD
Lee: Could not reply via e-mail because I am in a motel in Los Angeles and Outlook Express isn't working. Am able to post to N54 however so here goes . . . Yes, the statue is in Cooperstown. There is a garden on the left side of the HOF (as you face it) where there are statues of the lady batter, Satchel Paige in extreme wind-up, and the battery of Podres and Campanella. And Dustin Pedroia just parked one over the Green Monster YAY! Holy Christ Youkilis!! |
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Posted By: Larry Haven
Leon, I've posted my full name more than once in the past. My login is my name. I won't bother to send you an email. So go ahead and block me, even though I have a different IP address everytime I login. It won't matter anyway, as this is my last post here ever. I'll still be on eBay competing against everyone here though...bye! |
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Posted By: Tom Boblitt
Larry Fritsch I think. At least it seemed that way in the thread the other day talking with the SCDAuthentic grader........JMO....... |
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Posted By: Jim VB
Larry, |
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Posted By: Tom Boblitt
http://www.network54.com/Forum/153652/message/1191605542/Larry+Fritsch+Collection |
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Posted By: Andrew S.
Tom, I never considered that Larry H. was in fact Mr. Fritsch, but have always strongly suspected that another poster named George Drerer who used to post here was. He is posting in other forums right now and have even seen him post in the hockey forum and other hobby forums on CU & on Beckett. How else could he possibly know more than the Canadians about hockey cards? The guy simply has too much knowledge across the board in all subjects not to be somebody noteworthy IMO. |
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Posted By: Cobby33
Larry Fritsch is Peter Chao? |
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Posted By: Andrew S.
I always thought that Peter Chao was really Mr. Mint. |
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