I think I'm about done

[Huck]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

I think YOUR boss should make it mandatory that you stay after work for an hour or two Monday -- no extra pay, of course -- and make you create more of your company's product/service to give to whatever strangers come by. Then watch them post that product on ebay because they can. Then do it Tuesday. Then Weds, Thurs, Friday. You'll have to go in on the weekend, too. Please check back in next month and let us know how it's going.

For the life of me, I do not understand this mentality of "I'm a fan, so gimme my free sh*t. You owe me."

That is one poor example. It reminds me of Barry Bonds who said "When I go to see Batman. I don't expect Jack Nicholson to come out afterwards and sign autographs for an hour." Alas, Barry doesn't get it and neither do you. We all know how beloved Barry is........

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by biohazard

That is one poor example. It reminds me of Barry Bonds who said "When I go to see Batman. I don't expect Jack Nicholson to come out afterwards and sign autographs for an hour." Alas, Barry doesn't get it and neither do you. We all know how beloved Barry is........

Please explain to me what I "don't get."

[stewbacca]

Lifetime autograph collector, and I am getting close to 50yrs old. I went through the 90's autograph craze when everyone thought that this would be part of their retirement. I did it for the love of the hunt and would only get guys at games, events or autograph shows. It gets old when guys like Jeffrey Leonard and George Hendricks ignore you for a whole series when they are low level minor league coaches. For the last couple of years I stated doing the Heritage minor league set from topps. I was able to get Joc Pederson as he came through Sacramento. The J P he scribbled on my card looked like the other hundred or so minor league cards I had signed. These kids do not know how to write their own names. It is a lost art form. We don't teach cursive or penmanship anymore in the classroom. You should see what I get from students at the high school level, it is really bad. I have narrowed my autograph collection down to two items(74 topps set and the topps complete collection book from1990) and am about ready to move on from both. It was an incredible hobby growing up as was collecting complete sets, but it has changed and I have myself have probably changed. I think we put so much time, effort and love into the hobby and it doesn't love us back and we can get bad reputations as collectors from a few that ruin it for everyone. None of my 3 teenage boys show interest in baseball or my collection so I will not pass it on to them. Geez, sorry for the long post, but I think you can see the emotional attachment we have to doing something our whole lives.

Paul Stewart

[egri]

Originally Posted by stewbacca

The J P he scribbled on my card looked like the other hundred or so minor league cards I had signed. These kids do not know how to write their own names. It is a lost art form. We don't teach cursive or penmanship anymore in the classroom. You should see what I get from students at the high school level, it is really bad.

When I got back in to collecting about two years ago, one of the first things I did was send in a card to Jon Lester for his Steiner signing. When it came back, I took one look at the signature, thought "I paid $150 for THAT?!" and decided to stick with the old timers who have legible signatures, and who are very appreciative of fan mail. Lester has one of the nicer signatures from modern players; most of the ones I see I think are done by a drunk four year old.