I'm not really around. I'll eventually come back to collecting, and a still do a little. For me my second kid (who's now almost 6) becoming a toddler was the earnest fade to being active on message boards.
I do it on a case by case basis. My post office treats anything in a bubble mailer as a package. So...I can either pack the crap out of the card in a pwe...which I charge $2 for on low end stuff...or do the standard $5.50 or whatever it is and do the bubble mailer. If its close to say $15-20...
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/is-larussa-right-to-bat-his-pitcher-in-the-eight-slot/
Article from 2007. Basically the theory is that its so the 9 hitter has a better chance of being on base for the 2-4 hitters.
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The batting 8th thing was more strategic that a statement on the hitting ability of the pitcher.
I think the Cardinals did it a bunch a few years ago then it was sporadically copied more recently.
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I love the base set. Clearly with 1998 UD3 being my favorite set, random gaudy design elements, done with vigor yet following some principals of organization, have a place in my heart. Most sets kinda sleepwalk through it these days. This one does not.
As a Brewers fan, I don't get it. Melvin's forcing a lefty into the #5 starter competition again. I'd rather have Aoki as a OF4 if they're going to hand the job to Davis. Granted, that's not where Aoki's value is as a player and he probably would not have been happy with it, but certainly they...
I'm going to clff notes this from memory...it was right about average i think....due to below average color quantity, not auto selection.
Autos
Dominic Smith Black Wave / 50
Jonathon Crawford Green /75
Riley Unroe ref
Dustin Peterson ref
Tom Windle
Blake Taylor
Tim Anderson x2
Aaron Judge x2...
OK, so my (pre-bought) case should finish it's odyssey and arrive at my house tomorrow, but I still had the time tonight, so I did this.
I left the first page as my pre-release predictions, but I took data from completed auctions and BIN (can't get the BO data easily enough) both tonight as...