My rant... they ruined trading cards and I’m still bitter

Trading cards are the same material that a cereal box is made out of. They cost essentially nothing to produce. Why the fuck can’t they sell 20 general cards for two bucks?

Fuck collectors. Fuck selling them. Fuck trying to get the perfect card.

Just let me collect. Just let me open a pack and try to get all the players from my favorite team. Just let me look at the stats on the back of the card again.

If you want to sell five cards for five dollars to the fucks that sell them, let them have that, but why did you fuck up collecting?

Rant over

Fuck them

 

Same. One Sunday, I swear I'm going to go through them. Mostly from the late 80s/early 90s.

 

I hope the value of cards from the late 70s to the early 90s goes down considerably, that way I won't feel as angry that my ex-wife stole my collection of rookie cards during our divorce and yet still pleads ignorance on their whereabouts.

 

This was spawned from the post with the current Warriors in 70s hair on 70s cards.

It just reminded me of when I was trying to get Dr. J cards when I was young.

You could get a comic and two packs for under a buck when your parents went to the store.

 

My fondest memory, plowing through another box of Frosted Flakes to get another 3D baseball Card. Still got em.

 

Drakes used to have one baseball card per box of Yodels, Ring Dings, etc. Loved those cards.

I used to buy the Beckett Guide and whatever that cheaper-looking one was called, the one that was printed on paper, mainly just to see what my older cards were worth, not because I was looking to make a million. Then Upper Deck came along and fucking ruined everything.

 

Hostess did that as well.

I still have a poorly cut Tom Terrific in my house.

 

My best friend and I still reminisce about being 14 and riding our bikes to a Hostess store 10 miles away looking for Hank Aaron cards on boxes of Twinkies and Ho Hos. That was 45 years ago and his mom never figured out why no matter how many Twinkies we ate, the number of golden cakes in her pantry never went down.

 

And to address the OP, I was used to like to pick up a pack or two of cards each year just for fun and nostalgia, but I'm not dropping $2.95 for 20 cards, like I saw in a store the other day.

 

Tom Brady trying to steal 'Tom Terrific' nickname from ex-Mets legend Tom Seaver, and people are mad

I assume you mean Tom Brady...

 

I have one shoebox full of my old baseball cards. I use them as bookmarks. Every time I start a new book, I reach blindly into the box and pull out a card. It's fun. Current bookmark is a 1975 Ron Cey.