Getting Excited Again - 9 Cards at a Time

Oh. Hello there.

You might remember me. I used to blog pretty regular here. But then I went back to school like an idiot and had no time for my fun little endeavors like this. Well, the semester is over, suckas! So, here I am again.

I am a creature of habits, good and bad. I get into habits, like running (I used to do thirty miles a week) or model building (I got really into this for a while) or card blogging (like I mentioned above). But just as running is a habit, NOT running is a habit, NOT building, NOT blogging. TO be honest, these are much easier habits to keep up with. Cheaper too.

Anyway, I’m going to spend this summer trying to correct some of my habits. Like Forrest Gump in the desert, I’m afraid my running days is over (posterior tibial tendonitis saw to that), but getting back into blogging is an achievable goal.

And also sorta of back into collecting. I’ve been recently in a kind of down period as a collector. I just haven’t been overly excited about anything in a while. This, with the time constraints, has made me a bit scarce in the online collecting community the past few months. So I wanna recharge that! I wanna make some swaps! I wanna do some fun stuff! Summer’s a-coming and my team is winning. It’s the nature of the season!

The one thing I have been keeping up with is my 2018 brewersNOW set. As I said in one my last posts, I was THRILLED with how these cards turned out. I have since gotten another order of 20 and am working on the backside copy for another order of 20. So, about one-fifth of the way into the season, I am sitting on a set of 60-plus cards.

I have also recently put my brewersNOW cards into some 9-pockets. I’ve always felt that in order to properly gauge a set of cards as a SET, you need to see them nine at a time. It just gives you a different perspective on them. For example, recent Topps flagship sets have looked OK on their own, but just don’t really work in pages.

For example, take a look at 2017 Topps, which was a design that – on its own – I kinda liked.

But look at a page of these. It’s just a mess.

But then look at this page of 1992 Topps. It’s artful in a way I cannot really describe.

So I was just as excited to check these cards out in some Ultra Pros as I was to see them in real life in the first place. And….

I think they play really, really well.

And I ended up being very pleased with my decision to do the “team” set and the “highlight” set separately.

I’m not sure that the highlight cards look as good in pages – I’m not as wild about the design of these – but having the big headlines in the upper left with each one give a nice sense of order to the set.

And looking forward, I managed a couple of really cool cards commemorating Freddy Peralta’s amazing debut today in Colorado.

So, that’s where my excitement index tops out at the moment. I’m going to try to get back in to habit of posting and sharing what I’m getting into and hopefully that will lead to me getting back into my old ways and getting excited about new things.