WTF??? Can't believe they cut this up for a card...

[Blitzu]

Originally Posted by GrayGhost

By all means, stay on it. You seem to have a PERFECT view of this madness

Thanks, nice to find a place where people think like I do, and can see through the hype and madness. This is truly sickening. I love the game, and the purity of it. I'm a romantic when it comes to baseball, and I even become emotionally moved every time I enter a ML stadium for a game. There's an unexplained aura that exists, especially in those older stadiums (I'm lucky enough to be close enough to wrigley). I played the game as a child with friends, and can remember the smell of the grass, and the dirt off the infield. I love the the sound of a bat as it cracks the ball into the outfield. I loved sitting their in the outfield hunched over with one hand on my knee and the other with the glove over my other knee. Just waiting for the challenge of a ball coming near me so I can make the big play.

I also loved idolizing the greats of the games and thinking about how well they played the game. That coincided with going to a local shop to buy some cards and trying to pull out your favorite players you watch on tv. Then taking those cards and showing them off the next day to your friends. I also loved going to the big shows and finding rare pieces of history with the greats and dreaming of owning one of those old cards some day.

Now it seems all you have is a bunch of companies that forgot why it is they exist in the first place. There's a beauty to this game that they have a responsibility to protect. This isn't just any game, it's America's game, and most people from any generation can relate to it on some level. The history of this game is pretty much as long as the history of this country and it deserves more respect. I would even venture to say tearing up pieces of historic jerseys as criminal as taking pieces of Abraham Lincoln's clothing and cutting them up so that more people can own a piece of it. How well do you think people would respond to that?

Ok, I really need to stop now because I could go on forever, but thanks for the encouragement.