Time to Bring Sammy Home

[Andy]

Im trying to figure out what in the world Honus Wagner has to do with this conversation at all?

I think he's hoping to run across the ultra-rare Honus Wagner card since he ran across a Sammy one after this thread was started.

[TruffleShuffle]

i like how the OP talks about all the great sammy memories, and the first one in his list is getting hit in the head with a baseball.

[EhDubya]

Im trying to figure out what in the world Honus Wagner has to do with this conversation at all?

I think he's hoping to run across the ultra-rare Honus Wagner card since he ran across a Sammy one after this thread was started.

 

Ahhh, I get it. Didn't realize Sammy Sosa startling lineups were such treasures.

[imb]

roast's heart just broke

[OleMissCub]

roast's heart just broke

 

I dunno if he has a heart to break, he may already be dead...haven't seen him around in a long time come to think of it.

[UMFan83]

roast's heart just broke

 

I dunno if he has a heart to break, he may already be dead...haven't seen him around in a long time come to think of it.

 

He hasn't logged on since July 27th.

[OleMissCub]

roast's heart just broke

 

I dunno if he has a heart to break, he may already be dead...haven't seen him around in a long time come to think of it.

 

He hasn't logged on since July 27th.

 

Only nine posts this year for the Damn Goat

[SouthSideRyan]

Wrigley's urinals aren't going to clean themselves.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Say what you will about Sammy, but he was Chicagos second biggest sports icon of the 90's.

[Little Slide Rooter]

After reading this thread I was at my parents house for dinner. Searching through some old stuff I found a Sammy Sosa starting lineup that she bought for me years ago and never gave me. Will someone please start a Honus Wagner appreciation thread.

 

I think those things are worth a decent amount if in their original packaging, however, much like with Star Wars, I believe that the more obscure guys who nobody ever bought like B.J. Surhoff and Lobot are the ones that are worth more.

[tfarks]

Sosa should have his own blimp that flies around the city and drops buckets of goat droppings on those who doubt his legacy.

[TruffleShuffle]

or just drive around a tour bus and dump [expletive] out of it onto people cruising around the chicago river.

[Little Slide Rooter]

or just drive around a tour bus and dump [expletive] out of it onto people cruising around the chicago river.

 

Dave does need a new sax player.

[UMFan83]

After reading this thread I was at my parents house for dinner. Searching through some old stuff I found a Sammy Sosa starting lineup that she bought for me years ago and never gave me. Will someone please start a Honus Wagner appreciation thread.

 

I think those things are worth a decent amount if in their original packaging, however, much like with Star Wars, I believe that the more obscure guys who nobody ever bought like B.J. Surhoff and Lobot are the ones that are worth more.

 

I went to the National sports collectors convention this weekend in Rosemont (yeah I'm a nerd), and trust me Starting lineups did not seem to be all that valuable. I mean maybe $20-30 and a couple of rare ones around $50 but nothing more that I saw.

[Little Slide Rooter]

After reading this thread I was at my parents house for dinner. Searching through some old stuff I found a Sammy Sosa starting lineup that she bought for me years ago and never gave me. Will someone please start a Honus Wagner appreciation thread.

 

I think those things are worth a decent amount if in their original packaging, however, much like with Star Wars, I believe that the more obscure guys who nobody ever bought like B.J. Surhoff and Lobot are the ones that are worth more.

 

I went to the National sports collectors convention this weekend in Rosemont (yeah I'm a nerd), and trust me Starting lineups did not seem to be all that valuable. I mean maybe $20-30 and a couple of rare ones around $50 but nothing more that I saw.

 

Nothings really worth what it once was I guess. Back when I was collecting cards, if you had a rookie card, you were good. Fleer or Donruss tended to be better than Topps or Score, but that was about it. The came Upper Deck, which was top of the line. Next thing you know, there was Topps Finest, Topps Chrome, Fleer Ultra, refractors, chase cards, and all kinds of other stuff. That's about the time I stopped collecting. I don't even know what the baseball card market looks like these days.

[kujay]

After reading this thread I was at my parents house for dinner. Searching through some old stuff I found a Sammy Sosa starting lineup that she bought for me years ago and never gave me. Will someone please start a Honus Wagner appreciation thread.

 

I think those things are worth a decent amount if in their original packaging, however, much like with Star Wars, I believe that the more obscure guys who nobody ever bought like B.J. Surhoff and Lobot are the ones that are worth more.

 

I went to the National sports collectors convention this weekend in Rosemont (yeah I'm a nerd), and trust me Starting lineups did not seem to be all that valuable. I mean maybe $20-30 and a couple of rare ones around $50 but nothing more that I saw.

 

Nothings really worth what it once was I guess. Back when I was collecting cards, if you had a rookie card, you were good. Fleer or Donruss tended to be better than Topps or Score, but that was about it. The came Upper Deck, which was top of the line. Next thing you know, there was Topps Finest, Topps Chrome, Fleer Ultra, refractors, chase cards, and all kinds of other stuff. That's about the time I stopped collecting. I don't even know what the baseball card market looks like these days.

 

It seems like gambling for kids to me. You spent $4 on a pack of cards hoping to get a special card worth $50 (or more), but of course you wouldn't be able to sell it for that unless you got it graded and put in glass and all that. I will buy a pack of baseball or hockey cards occasionally, but the whole industry has left me behind.

[kujay]

As for Sammy, he was always more about himself than the team. That in mind, what does he bring to the front office? Or do you just mean as an "ambassador" like the Hawks do?

[Little Slide Rooter]

After reading this thread I was at my parents house for dinner. Searching through some old stuff I found a Sammy Sosa starting lineup that she bought for me years ago and never gave me. Will someone please start a Honus Wagner appreciation thread.

 

I think those things are worth a decent amount if in their original packaging, however, much like with Star Wars, I believe that the more obscure guys who nobody ever bought like B.J. Surhoff and Lobot are the ones that are worth more.

 

I went to the National sports collectors convention this weekend in Rosemont (yeah I'm a nerd), and trust me Starting lineups did not seem to be all that valuable. I mean maybe $20-30 and a couple of rare ones around $50 but nothing more that I saw.

 

Nothings really worth what it once was I guess. Back when I was collecting cards, if you had a rookie card, you were good. Fleer or Donruss tended to be better than Topps or Score, but that was about it. The came Upper Deck, which was top of the line. Next thing you know, there was Topps Finest, Topps Chrome, Fleer Ultra, refractors, chase cards, and all kinds of other stuff. That's about the time I stopped collecting. I don't even know what the baseball card market looks like these days.

 

It seems like gambling for kids to me. You spent $4 on a pack of cards hoping to get a special card worth $50 (or more), but of course you wouldn't be able to sell it for that unless you got it graded and put in glass and all that. I will buy a pack of baseball or hockey cards occasionally, but the whole industry has left me behind.

 

I remember I'd get a card, and the Beckett would have it priced at $20, however, that was the price that the dealers sold it for, not the price that they would buy it for, which would be closer to $12. I guess it was a way for the youngans to learn about supply and demand. Didn't really matter than your 1988 Donruss Matt Nokes was priced at $3.25 if the dealers all had about 30 of them and didn't want any more.

Edited August 8, 2011 by Little Slide Rooter

[SouthSideRyan]

We could start by not giving 21 to any piece of crap who asks for it.

 

Sammy was more about himself than the team? I always hated when the box score read Cardinals: 4 Cubs: 2 Sammy: 3. If only he had his HRs count towards the team.

[Little Slide Rooter]

We could start by not giving 21 to any piece of crap who asks for it.

 

Sammy was more about himself than the team? I always hated when the box score read Cardinals: 4 Cubs: 2 Sammy: 3. If only he had his HRs count towards the team.

 

Yeah, it really wasn't Sammys fault that they didn't care to build a decent team around him until he was in his mid-late 30's.

[davearm2]

As for Sammy, he was always more about himself than the team. That in mind, what does he bring to the front office? Or do you just mean as an "ambassador" like the Hawks do?

I don't think we're talking about giving him a job. Just a "Sammy Sosa Day" or somesuch honor, where the freeze-out is thawed.

[shnsajax]

I'm good with this as long as we don't have to see the Twilight version of Sammy, that one scared me.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm good with this as long as we don't have to see the Twilight version of Sammy, that one scared me.

 

"I'M SOOOO REEEEEEEEEALLLLLLLLL."

 

http://www.thaindian.com/images/sammy-sosa-after.jpg

 

Though at least he looks normal in that Cialis commercial.

[J.R.]

We could start by not giving 21 to any piece of crap who asks for it.

 

Sammy was more about himself than the team? I always hated when the box score read Cardinals: 4 Cubs: 2 Sammy: 3. If only he had his HRs count towards the team.

 

Sammy Sosa drove more money into Wrigley Field than Banks, Williams, Sandberg, Brickhouse and Caray combined. He was obnoxious, but his performance on the field backed up the overblown personality. He came ready to put on a show for the fans day in and day out, home or road, 10 games up or 20 games out.

 

He is the greatest Cub.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I'm good with this as long as we don't have to see the Twilight version of Sammy, that one scared me.

 

"I'M SOOOO REEEEEEEEEALLLLLLLLL."

 

http://www.thaindian.com/images/sammy-sosa-after.jpg

 

Though at least he looks normal in that Cialis commercial.

 

He just thought that was his best bet for Cubs fans to embrace him again.