Stupid relic cards

[Louieman]

Originally Posted by quinnsryche

Yeah! It's new so it's crap!! Only old stuff is cool! Some of you guys sound as ridiculous as the cards you are bashing. I guess my son is a moronic idiot because he likes new cards and not old ones. Anybody want to say that? Smart move, didn't think so. How about like what you like and don't worry about what others collect? How does someone collecting new stuff have any effect on vintage collectors? Just because a 12 year old kid (or a 55 year old man for that matter) doesn't know who Rube Marquard is, doesn't make him stupid. Maybe a shiny card of an older player sparks an interest in finding out about the history of baseball where a T206 holds no interest or value to him (they are small and many are down right ugly).
Food for thought, back to slamming new cards.
PS - by the way, ALL cards were new at some point.

+1

It's already happening, but at some point down the road there will be very low demand for the super vintage cards that many of us like, and our niche will be obsolete in terms of being a valuable commodity. Personally I don't care, I just like the cards. But given that, I don't see what the big deal is with liking these new relic cards. It gets kids into the hobby. You're bashing your own kind and pushing young people away from the hobby when that's exactly who is needed down the road. I mean if we're going to go down this route then, why don't I just say that a lot of those t206s and OJs are commercial crap just trying to market to the masses? If you want the real stuff, you need to get soil samples from Elysian Fields and those 1850s potato sacks they used as bases. Those are the "pure" baseball collectibles.