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Posted By: <b>Todd Schultz</b><p>adios

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Posted By: <b>Bottom of the Ninth</b><p>MB seems to be full of lots of BM.

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Posted By: <b>MB3</b><p>Want to see who is full of it there bottom? How about we make a friendly wager of oh about 25k which can be put in escrow that i can produce the cards and photo. I enjoy gambling and i am not the type to bs about the items i have especially when i dropped over 30k to purchase the last lot of t-cards. I currently own over 50 tin types and pre 1900 baseball photos that i have aquired from my travels playing golf all over the country the past ten years. Most folks at small town antique shops have no idea what items are worth so they just do not understand what a baseball tintype is worth, when i am not practicing i generally seek these places out and also attend auctions. Let me make it real easy on you, i'll just bet you 5k that i have the photo and when you accept the bet i'll let you talk to the two museum curators and also send you a image. Then we will see if you want to wager on whether or not i have the cards.

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Posted By: <b>DMcD</b><p>Billy Gilliam is Steve McCormick is MB3, right? This is getting kinda confusing.

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Posted By: <b>MB3</b><p>No...i do not know Gilliam or anyone else on this board.

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Posted By: <b>John</b><p>Oh...Poochie.....<br /><br />"Most folks at small town antique shops have no idea what items are worth so they just do not understand what a baseball tintype is worth"<br /><br />Yeah maybe you can go on the XTREME antiques road show that would be XTREME to the MAX! Yeah folks have never heard of eBay or the internet. Wow smart, a rock god, and an XTREME golfer, are you also a Navy Seal/CIA agent...and Astronaut.<br /><br />"When a person has opened for Marilyn Manson on several occasions they do not have to think they are extreme or hardcore it is just a given"<br /><br />Yeah you're right popular music is so scary today, I just want to stay home and listen to my Glenn Miller albums...speaking of which "extreme" and "hardcore"...LOL what other buzz words are you planning on pulling out "Dope", "The Bomb", "Word"... MB 1997 called their missing some words from the yawn vault.<br /><br />Somehow I think you're not the real MBrocks... at least I hope guys who open for Manson don't always sound so sad and whinny...<br /><br />"and the only reason i am still here is because i have made a few purchases from people and am waiting for the cards to arrive once they do rest assured i am ****ing out of this joint."<br /><br />Boo hoo I'm going to take my ball and go home..boo...hoo...hoo..God you can't even leave in an XTREME way. <br /><br />P.S. Cash in escrow Billy, wow 30k is almost like 50yrs allowance to you, and if you are the famous MB3 I think it's safe to say we know the money's not coming from your huge golf purses. Looks like from 2006's numbers you'll be about 24k short of the bet, I hope 2007 and 2008 and have been more XTREME in payouts.<br />

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Posted By: <b>MB3</b><p>John.... since you are to cool for school then why don't you cut all the talk and put your money where your mouth is. Contact me via my website and then i will write you back and you will see that this is not a imposter. I played pretty well in 06 considering i played half the season with a torn ribcage before it got so serious that i had to rest the entire 07 season. I must be able to play since i shot 68 at US Open qualifying and won the event while injured. I also made two cuts while injured and missed qualifying for the Nationwide tour event by one shot in New York while only being able to swing 70%. In response to your assumption about antique shop owners watching the road show and e-bay here is where you are wrong. Most people just figure a tintype is worth between 100 to 300 and do not figure out who the player is on the tintype. If i were you and you seem like such a tough guy with that chilly willy wonka five year old mindset that likes to call people down then do so. If i thought a guy was bogus or just talking **** then i would shut him up by putting my money where my mouth is because real men bet money. I really do not want to reveal any of my baseball items because after seeing how the people on this board act i would never put a item for sale on here. There are a couple of members who know i just bought some t-206 cards from them via the pay-pal route and that i am waiting for them to arrive, one of them has even posted comments during this whole billy situation. Here is a tintype i own of General Custer and to his right is a african american soldier, the tintype is worth around 5 to 8 thousand and i purchased it in the parking lot of a antique store when a gentleman who had a booth in the store sold me a baseball tintype and said he had a few with soldiers in them at the house. He had no idea what Custer looks like. Let me know how much you want to lose and i will produce the goods.<img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1218619747.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>MB3</b><p>You probably do not know what custer looks like either but now you do.

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Posted By: <b>MB3</b><p>Glenn Miller and Willy Wonka...now there is a real exacta box if i ever saw one. Might try dusting off your record player and vcr tapes or i know pop a few geritol to take the edge off.

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>MB3- I have been buying and selling tintypes for about twenty years and have seen and handled hundreds of them. Maybe I have positively identified a ballplayer on two or three of them.<br /><br />Just curious, who are some of the ballplayers you have identified of which the antique dealers were unaware? <br /><br />You also mentioned you bought a collection of 640 T206, most which would grade between 5 and 7. Sounds like a collection worth in the vicinity of a million dollars. Wish I could find something like that, and retire on it. Could you fill us in on some details? Thank you.

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Posted By: <b>Shawn Chambers</b><p>MB3 of orient are...<br /><br />The only reason I would be standing next to the Exit at a Marilyn Manson show is because I've already seen the concert...years ago...when it was Alice Cooper! Oh, and you should love Alice, he plays golf, but probably not as XTREMELY as you. Since, obviously, you are taken to the 3rd power.<br /><br />Sorry, hardslick, but Marilyn is NOT nearly hard enough for me. Too damn radio friendly, chief. I will be happy to accompany you to some shows where your stupid Penguin polo will be shoved down your throat. Penguin...remember when it was Munsingwear...now it just seems to be Mansonwear. Aaahh, how "punk" has changed. <br /><br />Keep trying. <br /><br />Shawn<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Steve</b><p>I like applesauce.<br /><br /><br /><br />Steve

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Posted By: <b>Steve</b><p>Boy, far too many of these disrespectful newbees are really hungup on themselves... Apparently, someone in this chute didn't get enough of momma's milk. <br /><br />MB3, Read what you've typed. You sound like a pompous stuffed shirt. You think you are threatening with your macho spew?.. Well I got a news flash, You come across as a whiney, uptight, little piss ant. Take your <i>amazing</i> collection of mens pictures and stuff them where the sun don't shine -cuz noone here give's a rat's ass. Ya see, It's not what is in your collection that earns respect. How you creeps avoided being sucker'd in high school eludes me!<br /><br />Too many of these confrontational posts lately. Leon, Speaking for myself here, but I wouldn't mind seeing a born on date with our IDs. Just to keep track of the new-age egotists with internet-induced cajones. Also, would help in knowing which threads to ignore. Perhaps it's time?<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Zinn</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1218632024.GIF">

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I am with you on seeing some more stuff, and as our friend little Billy said, our s/w is somewhat antiquated. But ya know what? The more I seen in upgrades and how newer s/w works I am not sure our tried and true KISS s/w isn't pretty darn good. <br /><br />MB3- the folks on this site have known each other for many, many years. The core group are almost like family. Going back to our previous board I have been on it 9 yrs. Many others have been on it that long too...and a very few about a yr longer, which was the inception of the original board. Some of our board members have known each other for 30 or more years. Most of us are fairly mature (really) regular ole family folks. I have nothing against you personally but you are fairly new here and as such aren't known too well. It looks like you are a golfer and a pretty good one. Kudo's for that. It looks like you "roll" your own way. I have been "rolling" for about 10 yrs longer than you have been alive. But that's a whole nuther story <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>. We need to get together and have a few beers if you want to talk extreme. Cold warfare training in Korea in the USMC was extreme. Living the other side of Miami vice for several years was extreme. Many things we do are extreme....Heck, a lot of us are addicted to our little cards....which is mostly better than some other addictions and could be considered extreme. So I say...sit back, take it easy....enjoy our board if you want to...and if you don't want to it's ok too. I appreciate your thoughts on little Billy. Maybe someday when you have a little daughter you will understand why just letting this go is not a good thing...also, little Billy needs to learn this lesson...Just like a lot of us have had life's learning lessons in the past. I will be talking to one of his University's internet security people today and then call back one of their Regents with an update. I expect a federal agency to be involved today too...Maybe you are unaware but little Billy has been disrupting our board for quite some time. Now he gets to learn from it....If I can ever help you let me know....best regards

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Posted By: <b>Joann</b><p>I know people get sick of this stuff - once in awhile I do too. But I think it's worth wading through these threads sometimes just to see the humor of some people here. HAH! What I wouldn't give to be as sharp as Wonka or Lichtman when they get on a roll and get after some jerk. lolol. I just absolutely crack up.<br /><br />And MB, <br /><br />"i collect cards and own the highest grade examples of some t-206 cards that have been graded by PSA." <br /><br />.. we already have all the Bruces we need here. Thanks though.<br /><br />J<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Lately we've had a number of newbies come onto the board not with the intention of assimilating into our community, but instead to anatgonize it. They aren't here to share or learn, but to derail intelligent conversations. I don't have a plan to correct this but it is something the board needs to address. There seems to be less discussion about baseball cards than there should be.<br /><br />And yes Joann, we already have many Bruces; now MP3 wants to outBruce Bruce.

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Posted By: <b>Al C.risafulli</b><p>I've got to say that I really admire Leon's patience and professionalism during this debacle. Having been the moderator of a few message boards, and I can definitely say I am not a big enough person to have handled this the same way.<br /><br />-Al

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Posted By: <b>John S</b><p>One could do a Master's Thesis in psychology simply by frequenting the board and analyzing and interpreting the motives of some of the antagonists that Barry mentions.

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Posted By: <b>Kenneth A. Cohen</b><p>Where did MB3 come from? Just got off the night shift. Too much to go back and read. Is he just the latest of Billy's gaggle of alter-egos? Can't tell the players without a scorecard. (There - a baseball reference.)

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I really just hang out and take it all in. The one thing I got out of my degree is that other intelligent folks can have great ideas that I don't agree with. <br /><br />Barry- the sky isn't falling.....It will be ok. Net54 has been thru much worse than this.....I do agree with most of what you say though.....<br /><br />AL- thanks for the kind words....You know me fairly well.....I don't get upset about too often and respect others' opinions.....sometimes it's a tad bit difficult to bite my tongue but I have a lot of practice...And sometimes I can be sarcastic like the rest of us. If I was as big of a guy as you I wouldn't take any crap either <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>.....wish we could have hung out more at the National but my nights were fairly full....best regards

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Posted By: <b>Al C.risafulli</b><p>No sweat, Leon. Hopefully we'll both be in the hobby for a long time - eventually, we'll get that beer. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />-Al

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Posted By: <b>Bottom of the Ninth</b><p>Barry<br /><br />It is very simple. Ignore. Don't reply. All of which is in our collective control. The site will be here for those who want to use it or misuse it. It is up to those of us who want to keep it focused to exercise restraint and simply do nothing. Seems so simple yet it does not get done. Don't need any fancy software or a private site, like LTS. You want to talk cards, then do so. Time for people to take responsibility and resit the temptation to get into it with guys who are here to just fool around.<br /><br />Greg

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Greg- I guess you are right. Maybe it's best just to ignore all this unnecessary stuff. It is a lot of clutter, however.

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Posted By: <b>John</b><p>MB3, I have no need to contact a mediocre golfer via email if I wanted to do that I would email myself..LOL.<br /><br />But thanks for proving my point I knew if I pushed your buttons hard enough you would get all fired up talk trash and act childish...was I wrong.<br /><br />It’s amazing how a few words bummed you out so much to get you acting like a kid exactly what you busted everyone else’s balls about. In fact it was you who eluded that you would never stoop to that level. Well you did and over what me teasing you about your golf game, or your pseudo extreme persona. In fact it took much less to put you over the top than it did Leon with Billy.<br /><br />So Wonka got you bummed out with some words, imagine if those words were about engaging in vulgar unsolicited sex acts with your child get the picture yet extreme enough for ya?<br /><br />And for the record my email is right next to my name always has been no need to go to anyone’s webpage you want to chat drop me a line. <br />

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Posted By: <b>Peter_Spaeth</b><p>Greg is right, it takes two to tango. Billy and his ilk make inflammatory posts only to see the reaction it will get.

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Posted By: <b>Josh</b><p>You are correct about what his collection of T206 would be worth. You know and the rest of the board knows this guy is full of it. He will be gone within time. Just another person that has to come on a message board and lie about what cards they have.

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>John, is it true that you swing 70%?

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Posted By: <b>Tom Boblitt</b><p>sounds personal..........