What is your favorite heated discussion?
 

a few examples: T206 sheet-size, reason for the scarcity of T206 Plank cards, Coupon cards categorization, what constitutes a rookie card?, should photographs get their own Net54 sub-forum... I am sure there are many more, but this should suffice for stirring up trouble…I mean, discussion.

I'm generally lukewarm.

my favorite heated discussion is proper use of:

their, they're and there

and

two, too, to.

Pete Rose H.O.F

That's really good - I forgot about HOF arguments.

Another good one is ebay shilling discussions, which is actually my least favorite. Personally, I like the T206 sheet-size threads.

eBay's 100% support for sellers

Complaining about lack of punctuation in long sentences, or lack of periods, period. Surest way to get someone screaming in misspelled curse words.

Blue Old Mill back

The ridiculous notion that some consider a Ty Cobb back to be a T206 card

I like the discussion about where to have dinner.

-Al

this is pretty ridiculous!!!!

Adrian.

As long as it's a hot dinner, I guess it qualifies as a "heated" discussion.

My favorite (as in 'not my favorite') was a girlfriend who refused to recommend where to eat dinner, but never liked my choice.

Cobb back....
 

+1




and should we call T206 upside down backs "uppy's" or "USDB'S" for short??;):)

Forum 54s version of a Seinfeld episode: Bruce VS. archive
 

You can't write this stuff:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ve#post1091588

Thanks Bruce for this classic Forum 54 Baseball Chat moment.

"Who is Archive and why is he using our name?
In his post with regard to the 1938 Goudey Archive attributes a post to us
that we never made.

We take our posts very seriously, and we believe that attributing a post to
someone else is a crime.

Archive please issue am immediate apology. We are prepared to take further
action, if necessary


Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List"



Patrick

Patrick, the idea for this thread came when I accidentally discovered an archived 2003 thread about rookie cards. It involved so much personal preference and opinion, making it no-win, yet people still got their backs up. I do it too, so not claiming superiority…although if you want to claim I'm superior, I'm good with that.

SGC v PSA.

Scott....
 

I changed my mind.......check out Ted's thread about Doyle;)

Stupid threads about ebay feedback...

Oh please, not another "fake Wagner T206 on ebay" thread....

+1

Yes, Yes and Yes

Debates
 

Ginger or Mary Anne?
Genie or Daisy Duke?
Betty White or Lovey Howell?:p

The fact that you are thinking about that is disturbing.

Johnny - your rebuttal to scrap questions is admittedly stale, but it's also very predictable. If you can ever come up with a logical response to our posts about printer scrap, please feel free to do so - it would be refreshing.

What is your favorite heated discussion?
 

My favorite heated discussion is a thread in which a scammer tries to legitimize their shenanigans and is ultimately quashed by the board.

The, "Nun's Wagner" stunt comes to mind, for example.

don't hate
 

Scott ! because of the accuracy.......truth is tough to swallow :):rolleyes:

refreshing is having someone admit they hate on something good...

pretty sad inmho

:)

tough pill to swallow when your wrong and can't admit it:D

Well Johnny, I hope you continue to enjoy these scraps vicariously through the collections of others, and that every now and then one of your friends tosses a sympathy scrap your way :)

As far as "hate on something good" - I don't hate them;in fact I love them. If you remember, I wrote an article about them. I will gladly buy additional scraps if I think they are enough below the current market value that I can re-sell them at a profit. I sold my previous ones for a reason - I just wasn't in love with them enough to keep them, and I got serious bucks for every last one of them, which I used to buy other things. You are a smart guy - you understand this. Quit playing dumb :) I find it ironic that you personally had such a huge part in destroying your own ability to collect something you love. You talked so much about them that you convinced your friends who had cash, and now you're kind of out of the game.

For your sake, given how much you wish you could afford to buy some, I wish the market price had stayed low. I'm sure you miss those days. Me - I sold all of mine, so obviously I wasn't quite so in love with them as you. That makes them a commodity in my mind, and that's still how I look at them.

In 1983 I could have bought a T206 Wagner for well under $50,000. I didn't. I regret it. Scraps - not so much.

Good luck, Johnny. I hope you get over being scrap poor and assuming everyone else feels the same way.

like i said....
 

bitter sweet like I said....:)

btw...not to mention any names, a few have floated my way from these awesome collectors.....recently:);)...........THANKS GUYS! you know who you ;)

I feel your pain on Wagner......

but I know you have scrap envy scott:D;)

How T213-1 Coupons are/are not T206s never stops being interesting!

Johnny, bewildered over ten years of these retorts of yours, I sent you an email. But just read this post and it sounds like you just have a weird sense of humor. In the future I'll take your responses with a grain of salt.

...and as far as scrap envy goes, ask Chris what my thoughts were when the huge T206 collection with scraps and rare backs became available during the National.

I would have bought them in a heartbeat if I had found a partner, I would have studied the scraps until I fell asleep with them in my lap, learning as much as I possibly could have from them - maybe even written another article.

Then I would have sold every last one of them.

you should have gotten it....
 

that's like a treasure trove:eek:

Ok Tim,

Ginger or MaryAnn?

That thing about Lovey or Betty White..... hmmmm..... Lovey was born in 1900 and Betty White was born in 1922, does that help? :confused::eek:



http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1421104019

I hope you had a chance to see it. I looked at it, came up with a value in my head, then heard later that it had been sold. I think I verbally abused Chris for not warning me.

Fred - you have abused this thread...even worse than me and Johnny. I will never again be able to watch Gilligan's Island with the same level of ... fantasy?

Lmao
 

Fred and Scott,
I was laughing when I was responding knowing the funny stuff that would be posted.
You guys have helped my otherwise sucky day get better. Thanks, I needed the laughs.
Tim

Can confirm, there was a shock and awe look then immediately the number crunching look then the "Im disappointed in you son" look. :(

Tim, I have to thank you as well. When I started this thread I was feeling a little mischievous, but you injected some humor, which is better. Still feeling mischievous, here are a few more...

"Let's discuss the merits of the Type system for classifying photos" :eek:
"Are the TPAs really trying to authenticate autographs, or just trying to grab a buck whenever possible?" ;)
"Who knows more about T206's, Txx or Tyy?" (you didn't think I would actually type names did you?) :D
"Is it okay to cut up old baseball guides?" :mad:
"Is it okay to read Hauls of Shame?" :p
"Is it okay to bid with AH's that have ever done anything wrong?" :confused:
"Is Grandpa Simpson really the Lindbergh baby?" :confused::eek::)

Oh, the pain as I am reminded of all those emotions!!!!!

Man what the heck is going on around here lately. First Pete starts a T206
thread and now Johnny gets in a heated discussion. I don't even know what kind of odds I would have put on either one of these ever happening let alone to have them both take place in the same week. ( By the way I would
have put 2 to 1 on Pete over Johnny).

There is no way in hell that could be Tina Louise. That pic looks like a wax figure, good god that's creapy.....:eek:

I finally determined that Johnny is just joking around. It was tough to decipher, but he basically verified my thinking.

Pete starting a T206 thread? It could be that his i.d. was hacked.

Just Googled it.... Ginger is 80 (will be 81 within a month) and MaryAnn is 76.

Anything about the hof

As a newbie I have enjoyed:

-Is that Joe Jackson? (far and away my favorite)
-Another Probstein shill
-Is soaking a card considered altering it?
-Joey somebody's stuff stolen...or not!?
-and of course all the seedy tales of crime in the wonderful world of sports memorabilia

I like heated toilet seats on cold winter mornings.

Scott....
 

Thanks for taking my abuse:);)

I'm just overprotective of my precious.........:D

Pat R. really????;)

your right, I'm a lover not a fighter!:D......I would have put 3 to one on scott:eek:

Johnny, the 2 to 1 odds were on you getting in a heated discussion or Pete starting a T206 thread.

o snap!
 

I thought the odds were against me!!:D

Pat.....this Damn flu I have has me seeing double:)


Scott and I are like bros and have to beat it out about precious every now and then...;)


this one is for you my friend:)

close my eyes.....that DOUBLE VISION:)

Scott, this is also for you! when I missed out on your dorner 10 + years ago, took me about 8 years to find a sister....:eek:

not scrap, but definitely a keeper:D

I confess...I still own maybe 14 or so T206's...but I had planned to destroy a few of them!:)

Farenheit.....
 

454 Ullman:);)