Does The National Still Happen This Year?

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by basesareempty

There is a 50 table show scheduled just south of Baltimore for this Saturday. It will be the first show here since February.

Which city and can we get there whilst avoiding Baltimore and D.C. ?

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[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

Which city and can we get there whilst avoiding Baltimore and D.C. ?

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Baltimore was a great show. I loved that I could walk, indoors, from the hotel to the show, had lots of close restaurants and bars, and could watch semi-pro baseball (it is the Orioles after all) from the deck in the hotel. Seriously, Camden Yards was a really pleasant park to sit in and watch a game, though i wasn't wild about Old Bay on my hot dog, and it was literallu across the street from everything. It was also a super-easy and very pleasant train ride down from NYC with a short cab ride from the station to the convention/hotel complex. I wouldn't hesitate to go back to that venue for a National, assuming of course that the plague is over.

[Jewish-collector]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Baltimore was a great show. I loved that I could walk, indoors, from the hotel to the show, had lots of close restaurants and bars, and could watch semi-pro baseball (it is the Orioles after all) from the deck in the hotel. Seriously, Camden Yards was a really pleasant park to sit in and watch a game, though i wasn't wild about Old Bay on my hot dog, and it was literallu across the street from everything. It was also a super-easy and very pleasant train ride down from NYC with a short cab ride from the station to the convention/hotel complex. I wouldn't hesitate to go back to that venue for a National, assuming of course that the plague is over.

The Baltimore convention center executives want to be able to tell the National committee in May or June that they want the show in their facility that summer. But the National committee needs a few years in advance for planning purposes. So, the National will never go back to Baltimore.

[Phil68]

It's entirely possible that, after the elections in November, the virus will magically just "disappear"...
Although it will be too late for a National, perhaps some larger regional shows will be well attended shortly thereafter? Let's keep hoping. I'm so eager to attend a big event. I miss it.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Phil68

It's entirely possible that, after the elections in November, the virus will magically just "disappear"...
Although it will be too late for a National, perhaps some larger regional shows will be well attended shortly thereafter? Let's keep hoping. I'm so eager to attend a big event. I miss it.

That's great news. I bet all the folks dying in Brazil will be surprised as hell to find out it was all just a political scam in another country.

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

That's great news. I bet all the folks dying in Brazil will be surprised as hell to find out it was all just a political scam in another country.

uhh.. anyone who has already died cannot be surprised about anything...

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Huysmans

uhh.. anyone who has already died cannot be surprised about anything...

Yes, the dying can be surprised, the dead probably cannot be surprised. Believe that's how it works.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by Huysmans

uhh.. anyone who has already died cannot be surprised about anything...

..uhhhh , obviously it's been a while since you've last read " The Search For Bridey Murphy" ??

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by Phil68

It's entirely possible that, after the elections in November, the virus will magically just "disappear"...

That sounds great. I'll tell my friend who lost his 55 year old father to COVID over the weekend and the lady I go to church with whose mother died.

[1880nonsports]

you can't fix stupid...

[Shoeless Moe]

I drove past a Farmer's Market in the downtown of a small-medium city, about half the size of a football field was the festival.

Guessing it will be the same time every week. Everyone had their masks on, buying stuff from vendors.

Wouldn't be much different, a card show that is.

Hey have it outside in December......wind picks up, maybe a '52 Mantle blows into your hands, then you run like the wind!

[CurtisFlood]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

That sounds great. I'll tell my friend who lost his 55 year old father to COVID over the weekend and the lady I go to church with whose mother died.

Sheesh Todd, that is terrible. All the 70 year olds that I know that got it recouped their health at home with little to no lasting effects. Another 50 year old did fine, though she quarantined from her family and employees for the required length of time. Hopefully it will end soon, but I'm wearing my mask at all shows as a best practice.