Now the Padres go north to face the only team in the National League West with a worse record than themselves, the San Francisco Giants. Let's see if we can stay 4th place and not inhabit the cellar the rest of the year. The Sportster website predicts the Padres will win the series in 2024. That is the year I turn 67. That will be 49 years after I saw my first Padres game in person.
Preview picture by Travis Peterson of Punk Rock Paint and the Gaslamp Baseball preview.
With roughly 10% of the season gone, it is projected that the Padres will win 60 games and lose 102. That should be good bad enough for a #1 pick. The Padres have had the first overall pick 5 times and chose the following, Mike Ivie, Dave Roberts, Billy Almon, Andy Benes and Matt Bush.
Cliff Floyd played in 10 games for the Padres in 2009 at the end of a seventeen year major league career. I have submitted this card to two or three private signings and this is the first one that actually happened. Cliff took part in Exposfest and it got signed there through PastPros.
I have long been a member of #BringBacktheBrown, so I decided to change the color of the dates. Also I am sorry but I think my cynicism for this season is beginning to show.
New Year, Old Cards
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*A big bunch of cards to peruse.*
I think I've hit a first here at the blog where I busted on past Blogger's
built-in character limit for tags. I like to...
211 - JOSE VIZCAINO, CUBS, IF
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*The basics: *Jose Vizcaino was entering his third season with the Cubs
when this card was issued. Vizcaino would play in the most games for a
single se...
got yer ginter?
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i already shared the 2025 topps allen & ginter cards that i found in a
hanger pack courtesy of a nearby lcs, but i also picked up some cards from
that rele...
Modern cards, modern consequences
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I can't say there was ever a time when I liked every card that came out of
a pack or into my collection.
Even in my youngest days of opening packs, bet...
Five years of Visions
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Ready for some of the coolest junk wax around? For 5 years in the early
90s, Fleer produced a subset called Pro Visions. They were outlandish art
cards, ...
Calm Before the Storm
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Collecting sports cards can be relaxing. Rooting for sports teams can be
quite the opposite. Today's a big day for one of my favorite teams and
I've been...
When Baseball Cards Disappeared
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While baseball continued to be played on the field during World War II, the
trading cards defining the era were extinguished by a sudden, total
collapse of...
New HOF guys / 9-pocket PC binder
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Now that top-tier PC guys of mine Fred McGriff and Dick Allen are finally
in Cooperstown, I'm much less emotionally invested in Hall of Fame drama.
It's ...
#115 De La Soul (+ Gorillaz bonus)
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De La Soul leaps into the 1991 MusiCards set here at #115. Pro Set got a
lot of mileage out of this photo, using it on all 4 cards they put out
featurin...
I am a Navy brat who went to 10 schools in 12 years in 4 different states. I have lived in 7 different states. I read two or 3 books a week. I manage a used bookstore for the county library system.