You Know You Are A Card Geek When...

[17ROCKIES12]

You call this Gatorade X-Fractor.
I've done it numerous times. :lol:

 

[AKA Coastal]

You have a calender with what days your pitching prospects start.

 

[MOFNY]

24-When you are a member of 8 different message boards...

 

[Big Mac McGwire]

When you tell your friends you cant go out with them this coming friday night because there is a Auction you need to win that ends Primetime Friday night.

When you decide to blow off taking a girl out to dinner because you spend all your money for the week on a Card

 

[MojoDan]

...when you weigh out the price of going out to dinner in terms of something that you are missing out on for your PC...

or to put it a different way


when the waitress brings you your check and you see the total and think..."Ugh! Thats the price of TWO Ted Williams game used!"

 

[matfanofold]

When you have more friends on a online baseball card message board than in real life.

When you spend more quality time perfecting your sig than you do at anything work or school related.

When you begin to judge people by the size/grandure of there collection.

When you buy a scanner simply to show off your baseball cards.

When you get in heated debates online with people you never met about baseball cards.

 

[GAbballplayer148]

When you have more friends on a online baseball card message board than in real life.

When you spend more quality time perfecting your sig than you do at anything work or school related.

When you begin to judge people by the size/grandure of there collection.

When you buy a scanner simply to show off your baseball cards.

When you get in heated debates online with people you never met about baseball cards.

Ha, I think about this all the time when I see people buying scanners specifically for scanning cards. Sure it's nice, but sometimes unnecessary.

 

[Hwilensky]

10) Your wife makes fun of you for collecting cards.

When I say I am going to the card store, she says, "say hi to your loser friends for me" or "why dont you take $100 and throw it out the window".


Hwilensky

 

[starwarsfan2003]

25- You plan your monthly bill paying according to whats up, or could potentially be up, on Ebay that month.

26- The first thing you do daily is check Ebay, Naxcom, Sportlots, Beckett Marketplace, Checkoutmycards, Casebusters and Mr.Mem et al.

27- Postpone sending out a care package to SKorris because you just can't let go of your Markakis dupes, even though he's paid you a month ago. BTW, the package is on the way bro, full refund and lots of extra goodies. Im really sorry about the delay

 

[MOFNY]

10) Your wife makes fun of you for collecting cards.

When I say I am going to the card store, she says, "say hi to your loser friends for me" or "why dont you take $100 and throw it out the window".


Hwilensky

We all have our vices. When I see coworkers blowing cash on cigarettes or spending $100 in spa treatment and haircuts it makes me feel a bit better.

 

[HoustonTeams4Me]

you saw a 1/1 superfractor of your fav player in the dollar bin and you ****** IN YOUR PANTS

:lol: I laughed so hard man...Good stuff (I like the pic)!!! :lol:

 

[Pinbreaker]

When you are on your way home from work, you stop by the card shop just to check in to see how everyone is doing and your wife calls..

She can't hear the noise of the road, so she knows you are in the shop and asked me to pick up something to eat since KFC is across the parking lot..

 

[Big Mac McGwire]

When you have more friends on a online baseball card message board than in real life.

When you spend more quality time perfecting your sig than you do at anything work or school related.
When you begin to judge people by the size/grandure of there collection.

When you buy a scanner simply to show off your baseball cards.

When you get in heated debates online with people you never met about baseball cards.

Could not have said it better. AhAhaha Right on the money!!

 

[DRav87]

The owner of the local shop sends you a text message about a card he has for sale to see if you are interested.

 

[predatorkj]

When you are watching a game with friends who do not collect and somebody hits a homer and you kill everyone's joy by mentioning every single noteworthy card you have of said player.

When you are so enveloped in your own collecting you completely forget about people's B-Days.

 

[Craig - 21hawk]

Reading through this thread makes me realize I'm not nearly the geek my wife thinks I am! I have no card related injuries at all!

Okay, so I'm still a geek.

Craig

 

[KLARNOLD]

...you open packs of cards while on the toilet

...you video record yourself opening packs or boxes (hopefully not while on the toilet)

...you feel ripped off by a card manufacturer when you don't pull an auto or game used card according to the odds

...you wish you were one of the collectors to finish putting together Upper Deck’s gigantic, 6,661-card Yankee Stadium Legacy Collection

 

[Card Magnet]

#? - You use things from your own life as examples here.

 

[RANGERS25]

when you check on the fcb boards through the iphone internet

when you have the ebay application on the iphone

when you set your alarm to remember to check on ebay about biddig on a card. this one i have done many times and usually win. by far my favorite.

when you ask for cards on your birthday, christmas, anniversary, father's day, easter, valentine's day, and pretty much any holiday, whether you celebrate it or not

bid on cards that are on ebay while you sit on the toilet

when you still have cards that you collected from when you were a kid and you didnt even know about wax boxes.

when you bought cards from walmart and thought that you had some of the best cards possible

when, like me, pull out your graded cards and spread them on the floor just so you can look at them all together, graded, and looking all nice and pretty

when you think that collecting cards is safer than the stock market. i sure think so

when your wife sees you watching the game and asks you how your "investment" is doing

when your wife talks bad about your favorite player which you have like a dozen of and you get mad

when you try and sell the idea to your wife that collecting cards is just for fun and then a couple of months later, the credit card doesnt have a usable balance

 

[Dell Sportcards]

When you wife just comes right out and says have fun with your geek friends on computer