North Side Baseball's Community Awards: 2025 MLB Season

Derwood finally won something?

every year i feel a sense of shame that one of my terrible posts gets highlighted here. sorry and thank you

46 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

Derwood finally won something?

Oh hi guys, looks like someone hacked my account all year. Did I miss anything?

1 minute ago, Derwood said:

Oh hi guys, looks like someone hacked my account all year. Did I miss anything?

Jorts were back in style. Shame you missed it.

Enjoy the cards @CaliforniaRaisin.  I won them last year (1988 Topps) and my kids and I had a blast opening up the packs and me telling them about all the guys from the 80s that I grew up watching.

Edit: DONT eat the gum 😂

Congrats to all the winners!

Edited October 20, 2025 by UMFan83

17 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Enjoy the cards @CaliforniaRaisin.  I won them last year (1988 Topps) and my kids and I had a blast opening up the packs and me telling them about all the guys from the 80s that I grew up watching.

Edit: DONT eat the gum 😂

Congrats to all the winners!

Despite being objectively kinda ugly, Topps 1987 hold a special place for me as the first set I completed as a kid, buying a couple packs a week with my allowance money.

I recently saw a box in a liquor store of all places and had to grab a few packs, and opening them up was a heavy nostalgia trip.

I think that's a great prize, but yeah, don't eat the gum

Edited October 21, 2025 by Thusly Boned

19 hours ago, Rob said:

Jorts were back in style. Shame you missed it.

I’m at a conference in Orlando and judging by the young ones walking around here, jorts are still in style. 

Caesar wins most positive outlook on the shortstop.

I used to love the tops baseball cards. I just bought the latest season for my grandson. It was actually funny when his birthday came and I had to tell him I had a gift I was giving him but I couldn’t get it yet. His birthday is in July. The entire set of the season came out in August. Anyway, I told him I was giving him something I loved getting when I was a kid. He looked at me strange as if to say “is there anything back when I was a kid that a kid today would love”. He didn’t say that but I am sure he thought it. And in a sense I understand that mentality from a 9 year old. However I will be happy to tell you he loved the gift and now has a giant book of cards with all the players. Nie his younger brother wants a set too. Topps cards are a timeless gift across all generations. 

Congrats winners.

Would love to see a hall of shame for most disliked post haha

I'd also suggest the forum do some kind of thread on end of session awards for the Cubs we could all vote on.  Not just the usual awards but all sorts of fun categories like "most improved player", "best team leader", most hustle", "best offseason acquisition" etc as well as maybe some dubious awards like "worst fielder" etc.

We don't even have to add up the vote totals if it's too much work, it would just be fun to see everyone's responses.  Something to pass the time between the end of playoffs and start of free agency.

1 hour ago, Stratos said:

Congrats winners.

Would love to see a hall of shame for most disliked post haha

With Tom being put out to pasture there might be some actual competition here.  I assume LBiittner took it with his crash oit but it's not a slam dunk

30 minutes ago, Bertz said:

With Tom being put out to pasture there might be some actual competition here.  I assume LBiittner took it with his crash oit but it's not a slam dunk

Link?

On 10/21/2025 at 5:08 AM, Thusly Boned said:

Despite being objectively kinda ugly, Topps 1987 hold a special place for me as the first set I completed as a kid, buying a couple packs a week with my allowance money.

I recently saw a box in a liquor store of all places and had to grab a few packs, and opening them up was a heavy nostalgia trip.

I think that's a great prize, but yeah, don't eat the gum

1990 Fleer, and 1990 and 1991 Donruss are my favorites for similar reasons. I could still describe some of my favorites from those sets. 

19 hours ago, Hot Sauce said:

1990 Fleer, and 1990 and 1991 Donruss are my favorites for similar reasons. I could still describe some of my favorites from those sets. 

i love how all the cards im nostalgic for are junk wax. There's a little card shop nearby and once a year I go up there and buy $8 boxes of 1990 topps or whatever they have laying around and the nostalgia is so crazy

1 hour ago, imb said:

i love how all the cards im nostalgic for are junk wax. There's a little card shop nearby and once a year I go up there and buy $8 boxes of 1990 topps or whatever they have laying around and the nostalgia is so crazy

Those small hits of nostalgia are my comfort in this stressful world. If it ever gets so bad that I no longer want to leave the house, just set me up with TV and movies from the 80s and 90s and an endless supply of old card packs to open. I'll be just fine.