Do PSA Cards Mix Well With SGC Cards?

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Posted By: peter chao

Here we are looking through our cards on a Sunday afternoon and waiting for game 4 of the World Series to start. What's the best way of displaying your vintage sets? I always have problems with the graded cards because some of my cards are in PSA holders, some are in SGC holders, and some are ungraded in clear slabs.

The red in the PSA holders clash with the green in the SGC holders which also clashes with my clear slabs. So what's the best way to display these sets?

Peter C.

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Posted By: boxingcardman

Or do thoughts just tumble out like a giant gumball machine?

Can we cut down on the inane posts, please?

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Posted By: Al Simeone

I will let everyone else answer that Question!
Leon Please an email to peter and Lock # 2 for the day!
And dont forget to check the memorabilia side!
GONORRHEA can spread Quickly!!!

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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

That's funny, Al, because ever since I noticed this morning that Peter apparently is bored and feels the need to "liven things up around here," I've been checking the memorabilia side for the inevitable "Which do you like better: pigskin, horsehide or leather?" post.

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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

I like displaying my cards with a nice floral arrangement. Of course,for the upcoming holiday season, heavy on the mistletoe and pine cones, with tinsel tastefully sprinkled about.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Peter- after all that has gone on in the past few weeks, why do you feel this compulsion to start these oddball threads? You said about a week ago that you realized you needed to step back a little, but I feel you really haven't learned anything from the responses you have gotten. What gives?

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Posted By: Al Simeone

Thanks Rob,
Just following Jeff Ls lead on the "Best Catchers" Post.
A weak attempt at a post and JEEZ not even a picture of a catcher from him ! Always leaves the work for others to do!
Work on it Peter!

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Posted By: anthony

do you see it peter?
(check your email)

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Posted By: leon

I am listening but like to be careful on certain issues. I don't ever want to seem too unkind, however at some point I will step in, especially when something becomes detrimental to the welfare of the board, imho. This issue is quickly approaching that threshold.....

Peter- please be careful as this is your last warning about weird, or inane threads and posts.....If we ever meet in person you can say whatever you want to, but on the board you must refrain sometimes....This isn't a "chatroom"....it's a board for sharing knowledge.

regards
...

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Hey, guys, cut it out. RC is right. We are just obsessed with Peter's consistent idiocy and we all respond in a juvenile manner. No need to point out Peter's lack of ability to be embarrassed or ability to be affected by negative reinforcement. We are just being borish. And boorish too.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Did you say Borat?

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Barry, you think Peter is really Borat? And he's just playing with us? I never thought Peter was a real person anyway...maybe we've been had?

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Posted By: Al Simeone

NO HES REAL ALRIGHT !! AND HES SPECTACULAR!!
I LIED!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted By: peter chao

Leon,

You need to clarify your mission statement. I thought this topic was card related. Your mission statement says, "...prewar cards and related topics." You need to clarify what and related topics mean...I thought this thread was a related topic.

Peter C.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Peter- do you really think how the colors clash in your various holders is a substantive vintage baseball card topic?

Here- I'll start one: does anybody ever use a PSA slab for a coaster when they don't want to put their drink down on a nice coffee table?

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Barry, you just hijacked Peter's topic! You know that's not right. Please start another thread with your topic and add a smiley face or two. But don't hord all the threads and PLEASE when you see me on the street look the other way.

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Posted By: anthony

peter, here is my way of displaying the mixed holders and is a legitimate answer....

8 sgc
5 psa
1 gai
4 raw
18 total = i have them in a box in my closet

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Posted By: dennis

barry ,no i like my coasters round but the scg slab is great for potato chips(esp pringles).

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Posted By: Anthony

I just finished reading Freakonomics, and there was a chapter about the guy that started frowning anytime someone said something racist, in a successful attempt to stop those comments. MIght be a good idea.

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Posted By: Al Simeone

Barry,
How did you know ? I use them all the time on my coffee table. And the kids prefer the SGC holders at the kitchen table! Peter you really cant be serious can you? One good word to the wise Even Leon is starting to see what we are talking about and if that happens well as Confucius would say "MISSON STATEMENT OR NONE PETER C WILL BE DONE"

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Posted By: leon

You take things to the extreme. I believe in my last post, in another thread, I asked you to only talk about "pre-war vintage cards"....This is what is called an exception. much appreciated....

edited to add clarity...(somewhat)

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

I like how red clashes with green, it reminds me of Hanukkah.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Isn't mixing a PSA card with an SGC card kind of like mixing an acid with a base? Won't it cause a small explosion?

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

Barry only if it's third base.

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Posted By: shane leonard

Peter,
You are such an asshat. Why don't you stop writing and just listen and learn? It is apparent that you don't have anything constructive or to contribute to these threads. It is hard to begin a quality thread when you know cards, much less begin one when you don't. I believe you would be better served discussing your interesting topics on www.psacard.com. Over there you can discuss how you can set up your 1979 Topps Walter Johnson PSA 4 card next to your rare Beanie babies.

Regards,
Shane Leonard

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Posted By: Rick McQuillan

I thought everyone color coordinated their slabs. T206 Abstein looks nice in the PSA slab, but I wouldn't consider putting the orange Fiene portrait in a red slab. And a T207 brown background in a black SGC slab? Never!

When will the grading companies wake up and provide us with slabs that color match our cards? Just think about it - a gold bordered slab for my T205's!

Rick

PS-Peter, if you want the slabs to look nice, decide which company you like the best, break your cards out of the other slabs, and resubmit them to your favorite company.

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

At this point, after multiple friendly warnings, banishment might be approrpiate or at least suspended animation.

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Posted By: Larry

Add two cloves of garlic, flour and egg, a pinch of salt and pepper and a lot of wine, they mix better that way, bake at 350 degrees and you get a graded casserole...

pretty poor post if I do say so myself....sorry but I was a chef, now I am a paint coatings engineer and I am always mixing stuff together, luckily nothing has blown up except for the time I took my chemistry set, and learned what happens when you heat sulfur in a bunson burner....

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Posted By: boxingcardman

Shane: "asshat"?? LMFAO; I guess there are new things to call people I haven't heard yet.

Peter S: beat me to the xmas thing; I guess Mexico and Italy are wrong too...better change those flags guys.

Isn't mixing PSA and SGC together what they used to call "miscegenation" in the Jim Crow days?

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

What team did Jim Crow play for?

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Pete's initial post is not so off. I hear many collectors on this board discuss the aesthetics of the holders, including comparing one company's to another's. I hear collectors picking a grader in part due to the perceived attractiveness of the holders.

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

I have to say I about peed myself when I saw the word 'asshat'. Thanks for livening another Peter thread up...........

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Posted By: JimB

I don't think this was a terrible post. I, personally, like to keep consistency of holders according to the sets. In other words, I like to have all the cards I own in a particular set to be in the same holders
JimB

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Posted By: davidcycleback

It's not unlike matching frames

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Posted By: MVSNYC

"it was a mission statement"

-jerry maguire, 1996




p.s. how can clear clash with another color?

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Posted By: Jason L

and that may not be much, but to answer Peter's original question, I simply stick to one rule with grading company slabs.

Rule 1:
Pre-1950 = SGC
Post 1950 = PSA

okay, Rule 1a: if I acquire a card in any other slab...I crossover according to Rule 1

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Posted By: James Feagin

If the thread originated from someone else, it wouldn't be getting so much flak. I know many people who like to have their collections from only one grader.

James

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Posted By: barrysloate

I think James nailed the issue here.

Peter has put himself on a shorter leash than others because of his persistent offbeat posts. I don't know why he can't simply sit back, relax, and just read the board for awhile.

Unfortunately he has put himself in this awkward position, and each time he starts a thread it creates a disruption.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Hey Guys, only two more hours till game time. It's been a long time since we've posted the best right handed first basemen since the Korean War. Let's do it the hard way and only post those with one arm. Posts are welcomed.

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Posted By: leon

Whoever said this was not a bad topic is absolutely correct...Barry is correct too in that Peter C has put himself on a proverbial shorter leash with regard to types of threads started and responses given...Not sure how much more polite I can be? best regards

edited spellin'

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

I would like to thank Peter for starting this thread, otherwise I would never have heard (read) the word AssHat! That is simply freaking classic! I love it and can't wait to use it sometime in the near future.. I just have to be sure not to use it around my kids...

martyOgelvie
nyyankeecards.com

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

My PSA and SGC cards mix together just fine.

I do, however, have to keep my Graig Nettles and Bill Lee cards separate. They do not get along.

-Al

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Posted By: Dave F

Well, just called my wife an asshat. It didn't go well.

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Posted By: sagard

To answer the question I've found they don't mix well. In my collection the SGC cards taunt the PSA cards telling them they are trimmed or overgraded. The PSA cards respond by calling the SCG holders too fat and tease them about being sent back to ebay Sunday night.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I'm amazed that so many here have never heard the word 'asshat' before. You guys need to get around on the internet a little bit...that word has been in use for at least 5-6 years.

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Posted By: Joann

lol Dan. I was thinking the same thing. Great word, not really new. When I saw the reaction here I thought maybe my knowing it for quite awhile now made me some kind of internet junkie or freak. But I'm not. Right? Right??

J

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I've personally been using that word on Usenet for at least 5 years...I just tend not to swear in this chatroom though because it's not a prevalent practice. Though I did once tell someone to go f... themselves...and that's about as mad as another poster here has ever made me, but I still felt bad about it.

Picking on Peter C seems too schoolyard bullyish to me (Easy target, doesn't fight back)...I know there are people here who are extremely annoyed by his posts, but the best way to rid yourself of an internet annoyance is to ignore it.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Dan, don't be fooled by Peter's usual position of posting a smiley and rolling over and showing his belly to avoid abuse. He's about as passive/aggressive as they come. No passive fool would ever insist upon posting the same inane crap over and over even after he's been begged, asked and abused about it.

But of course it's all in just good fun, right guys?

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Posted By: Joe D.

I have refrained from posting negative comments about peter's posts -
mainly because I respect and like the people who have met and who defend Peter.

but I have to say, Peter's posts are becoming particularly bothersome.

Yes there have been some people who have picked on Peter -
but there also have been many who have politely asked him to stop the nonsense.

Yet, Peter continues. And I don't mean just this thread.... look at the other recent threads and take it all as a whole. "strength up the middle?" "slab mixing?"

I take the continued posts of this nature as a sign of disregard and disrespect to those who politely spoke out about them.

Many times I also doubt Peter's sincerity in threads he starts - as it seems he is looking to orchestrate a conversation and is not sincerely looking for answers (maybe I am wrong about that, but thats how I take it many times).

Again, I look at this as a sign of disprespect to the people on this board.


Dan B... I very much wish there was an 'ignore thread' button - but there is not.


After too much nonsense though, the best way to ignore it is to not visit N54.


(edit to fix some grammar)

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Posted By: barrysloate

I'm with Joe- "disregard" and "disrespect" are the operative words here. No amount of advice has convinced Peter to refrain from all of his unnecessary posting.