My open response to Mario from Wax Heaven

[Wes]

He's a blogger - not an objective reporter. No need to go any deeper than that - take his writing with a grain of salt as if it was just another post on the boards.

 

[cgilmo]

It will turn into whatever the users turn it into.

That is the beauty of a forum.

 

[ChasHawk]

To say he is the voice of the collector when he is not a collector of anything recent is insane.

Hey, Beef. Not trying to get in on the arguement here, but just wanted to let you know that statement is not true. Here is Mario's personal collection

http://picasaweb.google.com/waxheaven/TheCollection#

 

[beefycheddar]

[quote="cgilmo":4502l1f9]Sadly, this post will probably double his daily traffic.

This is not a rallying cry, please do not post there on behalf of FCB. If you read his site, good. Enjoy it, those that agree with him should. My only complaint is his grandstanding.

I completely agree that he is grandstanding, but it is no different than the grandstanding here by beef's posting of his response.

Regardless, this post will no doubt drive up his traffic, and probably readership.

His grandstanding is consistent and frankly, it makes me want to puke. He misreads web traffic information, and really makes his site out to be something it is not. And people that also misread traffic reports and do not understand how the internet works agree with him.

Chris, again, why even bother starting a huge debate on the merits of his blog? Is it really worth your time?

I didn't start anything

I posted a comment on his site because I really disagreed with something he wrote. He came back with an unrelated insult and I left. This is Beef's thread.

So are you going to let this turn into a huge flame war with no apparent purpose? I would think that is not something worth our time.[/quote:4502l1f9]

No, I said my piece. I hope it doesn't turn in to a bash thread. I don't think he is a collector and has any place in the modern card world. In fact this thread can be locked so as to not give him any more pub, and he locked the thread on his site anyway.

Too bad he doesn't speak english (Oh wait....) or he could just debate it ala Will Leitch and Buzz Bissinger on Costas.

 

[Guest]

Man I don't like it when people make public the problems they have, or had with someone.
The best thing is to leave it private no matter what. Because all it will do is just get out of hand,
and people will weigh in on something the should not.

Just my 2 cents. The over under is 10 pages by 5pm cst.

 

[ChasHawk]

Too bad he doesn't speak english

Wtf does that mean?

 

[beefycheddar]

To say he is the voice of the collector when he is not a collector of anything recent is insane.

Hey, Beef. Not trying to get in on the arguement here, but just wanted to let you know that statement is not true. Here is Mario's personal collection

http://picasaweb.google.com/waxheaven/TheCollection#

Ok you can change what I meant to collector of anything other than Andrew Miller. If I tried to say I was an expert in everything collecting and only had David Ortiz cards no matter how good a collection I would expect to get ripped apart.

 

[beefycheddar]

Too bad he doesn't speak english

Wtf does that mean?

He said he can not be a guest on The Card Podcast before because he can not speak english well enough to be on, when I offered him the chance to defend views of his I disagreed with. Nothing racist or anything, he used the "Sosa Congress cop out" when offered to be on. He obviously can speak english well enough to do video breaks on his site.

 

[nyc3]

beefy take the high road for real.

 

[moxacaine]

beefy take the high road for real.

Good advice.