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Posted By: Mark L
Venom? what venom? |
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Posted By: James Feagin
I collect for myself and no one else. While I like a certain aspect of the hobby community, I have often felt I have very little in common with those who collect vintage baseball cards, particularly on this board. That's not to say I try to be inaccessable, hardly the case. The point is, if someone wants to drop out of the hobby in a public or private forum, fine, more power to them. These ARE STILL ONLY BASEBALL CARDS. When you die in a few short years, someone else will have them anyway. We can't be so absorbed with these cardboard trinkets that we take them for more than what they really are. |
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Posted By: Cobby33
Rich- |
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Posted By: Anonymous
I don't see any venom in Mr. Dorskind's post either. It is certainly more benign than dozens of posts I've read on this forum in the past. In fact, a couple of posters agreed with him and a couple others basically told Mr. Brennan to cut out the drama and leave. |
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Posted By: CN
It seems lately that when a person decides to stop posting they have to anounce it. What is the purpose of this, I can,t think of any. Nothing personal but if you don't want to post anymore just don't. This is a fun hobby and one less collector will not change much in the scheme of things. CN |
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Posted By: P
Well I have disagreed with a lot of Bruce's posts but I think all he is saying here is that the baseball card hobby is subject to its bad side like so many other things in life and that it's better to stay and fight than to quit. That seems a pretty benign point of view. It seems to me the negative reaction he is getting may be to some of his other posts? |
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Posted By: John
I won’t be making any announcements when I decide to quit posting or collecting. I’ve decided on a made for TV movie. |
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Posted By: boxingcardman
Phyllis Diller? |
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Posted By: Tim Newcomb
Maybe they aren't actually venomous, but you guys who are now leaping on the bandwagon to defend Bruce might want to ponder these words, from the oracle himself, about Joe's post: |
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Posted By: John
Adam, that would be hot! |
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Posted By: peter chao
Tim, |
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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus
I agree with those posters who say that perhaps you should wait a bit before selling your cards. If in fact several months down the road you still feel the same way, you can always sell them then. But should you have a change of heart (as happened to a number of posters when they experienced similar fellings), then you'll regret having made the sales. |
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Posted By: Perry Eaves
All this fuss over a relatively small group of low grade t206 cards? |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
I don't think Bruce meant any harm with his post. He tends to go overboard in his use of language to make a point. While he may be inartful when using hyperbole he is informative and, at least in my mind, appreciated. It's not like he championed the Virginia Tech shooter as 'noble' or compared what the shooter did to what George Bush did in Iraq, right Peter? I bet that would really make you livid if someone did that. You might even want to 'choke' all of the people who said something as idiotic as that. |
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Posted By: John S
Joe, |
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Posted By: barrysloate
While Bruce made some good points, and some over the top ones, he always distances himself from the board and has no interest in making friends with anybody around here. And he knows very well when he posts that he will make many people angry, and he doesn't care a lick. He might even enjoy it. He always gives the impression that he is talking down to everyone and nobody likes that. |
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Posted By: Rich Klein
1) The venom line referred to the last line of his post |
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Posted By: Alan
I agree with Barry 100 percent. I attended the PSA luncheon at the National and it is evident that it is really just friendly competition among the registry collectors. |
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Posted By: PC
The only thing I learned on this thread is that Bruce is an anti-Catholic bigot. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Perry, that's the second post of your that I've seen like that. Are looking to join Bruce in the Pompous, Arrogant, Collector Club? |
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Posted By: bruce Dorskind
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Posted By: barrysloate
Posts about religion are frowned upon on the board. Maybe we could steer this back to baseball cards. |
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Posted By: PC
It's amusing that you now add "regardless of religion" references, and ask questions that any normal person would answer "yes" too. You digress, but only because you were called out. |
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Posted By: Rich Klein
He certainly did not show any religious bias in his post. He pointed out, and without any sign of prejudice, that the Catholic Church has had problems in recent years and many people who believe in that Church are doing their best to fix said problem. Let's not read more into the post than that. |
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Posted By: PAS
Who's better PSA or SGC? |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Now those are fighting words! |
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Posted By: PC
Rich -- I disagree. Non sequiturs are very revealing. And a ridiculous, inflammatory analogy between fraud in this hobby and Catholicism should be condemned, not excused. |
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Posted By: Brad
Vote Brad For President |
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Posted By: peter chao
Brad, |
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Posted By: Cobby33
So we've gone from calling pro-choice advocates "baby killers," to wildly speculating that there have been "thousands" of victims of wrongdoings of agents of the Catholic church. What next? On second, thought- don't answer that. |
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Posted By: robert a
Perry Eaves, |
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Posted By: David Davis
"Perhaps the poster should print out the quote he references and |
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Posted By: Anonymous
"Thousands" of victims is no "wild speculation". The John Jay Report, commissioned and endorsed by the Catholic Church itself, found over 10,000 plausible reports of sexual abuse of children by over 4,000 priests between 1950 and 2002. Surely some of those priests are innocent but since this is a notoriously under reported crime we can be sure there have been more cases than the 10,000 or so cited in the report. In addition there have been a large number of priests, bishops, etc., who did not molest children but participated in cover-ups. |
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Posted By: PAS
Is this sort of discussion really necessary here? |
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Posted By: Jason L
Joe, |
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Posted By: Cobby33
Peter is right. This is not the forum to discuss the allegations of non-sports related news items. I guess in my line of work, I am accustomed to convictions and settlements (although not always) being indictments of guilt: not inadmissible reports and yes, speculation. |
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Posted By: peter chao
I'm glad that you're keeping your sense of humor through all of this. Hopefully, you will not be leaving us any time soon. |
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Posted By: JK
Sorry to bring this up again, but a quick internet search would reflect that the numbers cited above are not false: |
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Posted By: Mike Garcia
The only people who should be allowed to use the editorial "we" or the Royal "we" are editors , kings , and people with tapeworm. |
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Posted By: Perry Eaves
This is not life and death folks. "all this fuss over small group of low grade t206 cards" Correct. Go for a long walk, play catch with your kids, tell your wife you love her. (OK, went too far with the last one) Deciding to sell a small group of cards and treating it like a major life move is simply absurd. |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Yeah, I agree with Josh -- over a billion dollars paid to the victims of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church ain't chump change. That being said, I hardly think the abuse reflects much on the Church. After all, there are bad people connected with every religion. When bad behavior becomes the average behavior for a religion then there is a bigger problem; clearly that is not the case with the Church. |
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Posted By: joe
Just curious, has anyone on this board ever met Bruce? Does anyone even know him? |
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Posted By: Ed Ivey
I thought it was a "them". |
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Posted By: Alan
We wanted to meet him to say hello at the National, but we never saw him. |
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Posted By: PAS
I repeat: why do we need to be having a discussion about this? Is it relevant to something? We get into some pretty o/t stuff here but this seems to be pushing the envelope. EDITED TO ADD JK, respectfully, if you are sorry to bring it up again, why did you? |
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A Sad day for my My last Post O/T
Posted By: Andrew Parks
I met Bruce once. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
I've known Bruce for 20 years and have gotten together with him numerous times. |
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Posted By: Anonymous
Barry, |
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Posted By: barrysloate
David- I just do not know why. I know some board members have asked Bruce some of these questions, but he has not responded. |
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Posted By: John
A sad day Perry is that you feel the need to take a jab at a guy’s collection as he rolls out of the hobby, regardless of his reasons. |
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