SGC Closed Today

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Posted By: Brian

We want to let everyone know that inclement weather in our area has closed the SGC office today. We'll be back in tomorrow to handle any phone calls or e-mails. Orders set to ship today will be sent out tomorrow. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you,

Brian Dwyer
SGC
1-800-742-9212 x114

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Posted By: leon

Brian- Thanks for the update. Most schools in North Texas are closed due to icy conditions too. We had a very cold night and sleet and icy rain (not sure there is a difference). I will probably work from home today myself.......stay safe everyone....

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Posted By: jay wolt

Brian didn't they set you up w/ a cot & a hot plate in the back room?

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Posted By: andy becker

"We had a very cold night and sleet and icy rain (not sure there is a difference)."

gosh, that must be tough.....best wishes from warm and sunny Wisconsin

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Posted By: Sean

I was thinking the same thing Andy...I got up yesterday to -6. I helped the old neighbor lady bring out her garbage and recycling all with no jacket.

She's lucky she lives next door to an Eagle Scout.

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Posted By: leon

It does get cold in N.Texas but not real cold, too often. This morning it was 19 degrees and I am sure the wind chill was close to 0.....So that is pretty cold for us....Probably not cold at all for some of our Northern US, and Canada members...

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Posted By: Peter Thomas

Brian

76 degrees, sunny & dry - Sorry - you will get us back this summer - Peter

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Posted By: Jason

19 degrees? That's shorts and T-shirt weather for me.

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Posted By: Fred C

It's like 14 degrees here.... oh, my bad, that's 14 degrees C. I think that's about 57 or 58 degrees F. That's still a bit too cold... I hope we hit 70 today....

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Posted By: marshall barkman

The weather is brrrr cold and there is like 4-5 inches of snow with ice. Last year in a similiar storm a friend of mine picked me up to head to a huge auction on the Eastern shore which is 3 1/2 hours away. He picked me up at 5 in the morning and the storm was not supposed to hit until 12 noon. When we arrived at the auction it was spitting snow and knew it was going to get worse. The reason we went is because there was alot of old baseball cards and generally great antiques everywhere. Because of the storm not many folks attended.



He bought a 52 Bowman Mantle and also a Red Cobb which looked to be a 6. I bought artwork, some fine William Spratling silver, about 100 clean 52 topps commons and maybe 50 to 60 Vg to ex t-206's. We were thrilled with the prices we paid and left the auction around 4.



Once we got to the Pa line the roads were treacherous. He had just bought a brand new F-350 dual cab and it was handling the weather fine. We were 5 miles from home when a tractor and trailer came over on us and when my friend swerved he lost control, the truck went round and round about three times and then woosh over the bridge we went and crashed into a tree about 25 feet below.



I remember waking up looking out at the sky and thought well i must be dead, at least i'm not in hell(lol). I looked over at my pal and he was F'ed up. I pulled myself out of the truck and jumped to the ground because the truck was sideways. When i stood up i immediatly fell again and thought this is not good. All of this took place in a matter of seconds but seemed like hours.



I could not pull him out through the windshield and we had blood flying everywhere. Finally a paramedic and cop pulled me out of the wreckage and started asking me what happened. I instantly shook lose because on the ground was the 52 Bowman Mantle and i thought holy **** our cards must be everywhere. Frantically i ripped off my shirt to wrap my hand so i would not get blood on the cards and started picking them up in the snow as this policeman followed me asking me to stop and please talk to him. I told him to F'off because my friend would have killed me if i did not find the Mantle and Red Cobb no matter how bad the injuries and he got pissed.



After finding the Cobb and the little box of mine with the t-206's and 52 commons which opened in the accident so half the cards were in the snow i put all the cards in the box and headed to the ambulance with the cop who was reading me the riot act. The gal paramedic asked me if i was crazy and that to immediatly let her check me out. Meanwhile the jaws of life were cutting my friend out and i was like man this is not good. The weather was 10 degrees and it took 1 hour for them to cut him out. In the ambulance she patched up my cuts and wanted to take me to the hospital but i said not without my friend, we will ride together and i gave the cop the details of what happened.



The paramedics were very upset with me but i could have cared less and when they brought my buddy over on the stretcher he was messed up pretty good like. He wheeled in up on the ambulance and off we sped to the hospital. At first he just stared up at the ceiling and i thought hmmmm does he know i am here because he was in a neck brace with a oxygen mask on. I said Gary it's me are you alright. He lifted his arm and the paramedic got mad so i said he wants to talk let him talk. The gal then lifted the mask off and he said man i am F'ed up but is the Red Cobb ok? I nearly lost it, the paramedics got upset and put the mask back on and then gave me hell for laughing at him.



Once inside the hospital i laid down on the bed and must have passed out. I awoke when Gary's brother asked me what in the hell happened as he approached with the doctor. The doctor who i know asked me how i was feeling and pointed to the table beside me and there was the box of cards. He smiled and said i had a feeling it was you when the nurse said at the accident some nut was wandering around in the snow hunting baseball cards instead of being treated.



We walked over to Gary's room and he had a broken leg, 4 broken ribs, a cut on his knee that required 28 stitches and a broken wrist. I needed 12 stitches on my wrist,6 stitches above my eye and my head felt like someone hot me with a bat from the concusion. When i approached the bed he said where is the Cobb? I picked it out of the box and it was still in the card safe 1 holder with no damage, he said Thank God.



All of the nurses rolled their eyes and one chewed me out for not understanding how severe the accident was. I was like lady trust me i understand the severity but we love cards and no way no how was i going to leave them behind.



Sorry for the long story but i am about to head out in this weather and i still bust a gut thinking in the ambulance when they removed the mask his first response was "Man i am F'ed up but is the Red cobb ok"?

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Posted By: Jantz

I'll trade anyone for the cold temperatures and you can have the 8+ inches of snow that we got here in Ohio last night. And its still snowing. Only good thing about it is that I got a snow day from work.

Well, I go to go shovel.

Jantz

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Posted By: Matt

Jantz - tell me about it - due to the snow, there are two cars stuck in my driveway right now and the suituation is only going to be worse when the snowplow driver finally gets over to plow my driveway. Not looking forward to digging the cars out this evening.

My Trade/Sale Page

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Posted By: Rawn Hill

Looking at 18 inches+ here in Maine today.

Rawn

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Posted By: Laura

1/2 to 1 inch of ice, with another 3-4 inches of snow to follow here in northern KY. Cincinnati is in a Level 3 snow emergency, giving tickets out to folks who drive in this mess. I went out this morning to listen to the crashing of branches and trees as they fell at the rate of about one per minute.

DH is Canadian and I have lived most of my life in the north (Cleveland, Syracuse, New Hampshire, Saskatoon, and Duluth MN), so am fine driving in it. Besides, Clifford, my big red 1 ton 4wd dually can go 'most anywhere. We're tucked up in the warm house with power on (yay) and kids going crazy on their 3rd day off from school. Ah weather...

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Posted By: bigfish

I was trying to get a hold of you yesterday. Will call Thursday.

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Posted By: Michael Steele

Sorry to hear of the all the snow troubles going on. We missed the snow here in Minnesota. But I was driving to work yesterday morning and it was -6 outside and it felt oddly warm. That's been the type of winter here in MN where it hit -31 (without wind chill) a few weeks back. Not complaining because I am sure our friends in Canada have worse weather stories.

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Posted By: Ted Sherman

Changed over to rain here in Boston, but looks like it is going to ice over. Since I want the mailman to deliver my cards, I better head out and shovel my front walk!

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Posted By: Bobby Binder

It is freezing here as well last night it got into the 50's was almost tempted to wear pants today instead of my usual shorts.

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Posted By: Jantz

Bobby - you have come to the wrong thread if you are looking for sympathy with that post.

I've almost forgotten what shorts are.

Jantz

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Posted By: David McDonald

A bit overcast but otherwise a nice, balmy room temp 72 degrees at 10:30 in the morning here in Honolulu. Took this picture from the backyard about 10 minutes ago. I spent half my life in the cold climes of New York, Colorado and Canada. I have shoveled a lot of snow, wrestled with tire chains, all that junk stuff. Trust me guys, this is way mo' bettah.

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Posted By: Rob D.

Anyone else just feel a spike in the board's hate index?

(Just came in from clearing a 120-foot driveway of 8 inches of snow and ice.)

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Posted By: Brian T.

It is 77 degrees under partly cloudy skies here in Tampa Bay. This is the time of year that makes up for hurricane season.

I certainly don't miss lake effect snow and the endless shoveling.
-Brian T.

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Posted By: leon

I wish I would have been behind David when he took that pic this morning. A little nudge, maybe...... David, we all collectively dislike you now ....

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Posted By: boxingcardman

Sunny and nice again today. And the casting studio in my building must be casting for young women roles again, so I've been watching one beautiful wannabe actress after another walk by my office window since about 10:00.

Enjoy your snow day, boys...

Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc

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Posted By: David McDonald

"David, we all collectively dislike you now."
Does that mean, like, I am going to be banned?

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Posted By: leon

If you were banned we couldn't see all of those neat cards you outbid us on. Plus you couldn't rub the Hawaii weather in our face. What would we do then?

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Posted By: barrysloate

Brooklyn was a mess today, and this morning while out on my errands I took a pretty dramatic fall...splat on the sidewalk. But I was fine.

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Posted By: David McDonald

I'm sure you all would find another way to bring the noise!

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Posted By: Bobby Binder

David,

I am a Island away from you on Kauai.

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Posted By: Bob

We've had a major, major ice storm through the Ozarks the last couple of days. I lived the first 13 years of my life in Minnesota so I know what cold and snow are like but I tell you that there is NOTHING as miserable as a major ice storm. The trees fall on the power lines and over half the people have no electricity or heat and nothing moves on the streets no matter how well you drive. Inches of ice.
Thank God it is on its way out of here. It has lessened in intensity but it is headed toward Kentucky and the east. Not only the planes but bus passengers were stranded because the buses couldn't even get here. That's a first....

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Posted By: Rob D.

Barry,

Apparently the fall had a negative effect: I think you meant to write "and this morning whilst out on my errands ..."

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Posted By: David McDonald

Bobby: Kauai is the nicest of the Hawaiian Islands. Been there many times. It would give Moorea or Bora Bora a run for its money.

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Posted By: Laura

Here you can see the horses are relatively unfazed by the ice storm, a lot more snow than we usually get here in Kentucky:

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Posted By: Bobby Binder

David,

Agreed that is why I moved here to raise my 2 girls in a nice clean and beautiful community.

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

Brian,

Appreciate your taking the time to let folks know. I can't help but think of GAI everytime I see this thread title.

Marty

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Posted By: boxingcardman

I think those horses are frozen solid...

Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc

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Posted By: Laura

Nah, but they sure have eaten down that round bale, which yesterday was almost whole!

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Posted By: Joe Jones

We have had close to 200 inches of snow so far this year in Northern Michigan. its been a cold year too.

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Posted By: Doug

"Cincinnati is in a Level 3 snow emergency"



It's a total mess here. It snowed about 5 inches then freezing rain added a thick layer of ice on top of it all. My power was out from around 11 AM until 6 PM. I finally got my heat back on which is great since the roads were like an ice skating rink most of the day making it impossible to go anywhere.

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Posted By: marshall barkman

Laura.....do you also own race horses? I'm partners on a few with a friend of mine. We also have two mares that we just one breeds to in a Kentucky charity auction. One of our mares is out of Storm Cat and the other mare the daughter of Golden Missile but she looks like her grandad Seattle Slew.

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Posted By: Laura

No, I have stayed away from racehorses since the time a Standardbred stallion bit me so hard I had to have drains in for six weeks. Still have the scars from that one on my arm, in the shape of teeth.

I worked at the Meadowlands racetrack for a time (not where that happened, fwiw) and am not a big fan of how racehorses are treated, in general. In some cases they aren't looked at as animals, they're just vehicles for their owners to make money. No offense intended, I presume you are one of the good ones (and those Storm Cat ponies sure do well!)

My family has had horses since about the 1920s or so. Right now DH and I just have Quarter Horses and a POA. Purely pleasure riding, although DH is involved with KEEP. He's the cowboy, I focus more on our exhibition quality poultry. When chickens bite, you don't have to go to hospital.

See our website here: http://www.pathfindersfarm.com/index.html

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Posted By: marshall barkman

I understand your opinion in regards to horse racing in general. I kind of like dangerous things and there is no bigger rush than to walk a race horse around. Currently i am working with a little filly out of a stud called Stored and she is a handful. She always wants to rear up and kick around, i'm careful not to correct her to much because i do not want to break her spirit and she can fly. My partner and i won a breed to Albert The Great and he is the most intimidating animal i have ever seen. I stood two feet from him at Pin Oaks Farm and thought now if this SOB gets out of hand i'm a goner, what a massive athlete and freak of a race horse. Your chickens looked cool so good luck with everything.

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

That sounds like one of those National Geographic videos..........."WHEN CHICKENS BITE...."

In the 'ville (Louisville for the uninitiated) we had about 5-6 inches of snow, then about 1-2 inches of pure ice from hell, then another 3-4 inches of snow. My neighborhood looks like a tornado hit it--at least the trees. They're bent, broken and in terrible shape.

As a direct result of this bullhockey, people call in to the UPS hub and don't show up for work. REALLY a great thing for ME because all the mgmt people we have here in Louisville (the main air hub for UPS) get called in to work in a contingency situation. So at 10pm for the last 3 nights, I've been loading packages into A1 containers, which have about 550-600 cubic feet of space. Packages come down long chutes--30-40 feet long from a height of about 12-15 feet to the bottom of the chute where you pull them out and, in a tetris-like tortuous game, sure to break your back, try to put them into the container. Small packages come down in these 3 foot by 3 foot nylon bags maybe 20-60 in a bag.

So for any of you buttheads in Fargo, ND or Sioux Falls, SD (some of the destinations that I've been loading) that ordered anything to be delivered yesterday or today, THANKS A LOT. Also....PLEASE STOP ordering for a couple days--at least anything heavy. Baseball cards (in small quantities) are fine however. 42 year old overweight lazy people should not have to get up in the middle of the night and work 5-6 hour shifts in a 40 degree +/- building.

Also.....you'd be surprised at how much bull and pig semen is flying around up in the skys between midnight and 6am. I mean alarmingly surprised.

Okay, that's my bitch for the day.....about 150K people without power here, and we're not one of them, so I'll shut up now....

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Posted By: Rob D.

If you had told me yesterday that I'd be reading this today, I'd have called you a liar:

... you'd be surprised at how much bull and pig semen is flying around up in the skys between midnight and 6am.

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Posted By: Jim VB

Rob D,

What? You thought they'd Two-Day that stuff? (Or worse yet, Ground?)

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Posted By: Bob

"Also.....you'd be surprised at how much bull and pig semen is flying around up in the skys between midnight and 6am."

Has to be the best line I've read on this board in a long time

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Posted By: Laura

Good quality show animal semen is actually hideously expensive. I used to breed dairy goats, and had a huge tank of expensive semen. Frozen, kept in liquid nitrogen. The tank had to be kept indoors, and my partner in goat crime (who had more goats than I did) kept our two tanks in her living room, with a piece of glass over them, using them as a cocktail table.

Always made for good conversation when someone new ventured onto her farm.

"So Cynthia, what are those things?"

"Those are Laura's and my semen tanks." (said with a straight face.)

Some of the reactions were hilarious, ranging from "Ewwww, gross!" to "Cool, how many straws?"

Good goat semen can sell for anywhere from $50 to $500 per straw (good for one AI), and you can get straws from famous bucks who have been dead for more than 20 years. You want to talk collector's fever!



And AFAIK, you still can't use frozen semen for Thoroughbred race horses, which I find rather silly. ((shrug))

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Posted By: leon

Laura- For some reason I find the whole coffee table - semen thing interesting. I can only think of about a thousand punch lines but you have probably heard most of them....regards

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

I hate to ask but what is the difference between 'good' goat semen and bad?

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Posted By: Anthony S.

About 4 shots of bourbon.