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<\/p>\nIt\u2019s been a busy week here at Grubby Glove. I published three blog posts, Baseball Card Pack Choices, the logical conclusion to a recent shopping trip, Topps Tries Alliteration & So Do I, where I gave my imagination full sway, and Postcard Fun, in which a postcard served as the framework for a fun ramble through some baseball history. But I did much more than that…<\/p>\n
I also watched a bunch of baseball games. I saw the Red Sox pound the Orioles on Tuesday, and the Orioles pound the Red Sox on Wednesday. Both teams can really hit and poundings like these are going to occur. The Mets defeated the Marlins in a sixteen-inning, 9 to 8 marathon on Thursday night. When that ended, I flipped to the Giants game, which they lost to the Rockies, 3 to 1, and suddenly the G\u2019s are 0-3 in Madison Bumgarner\u2019s starts this year.<\/p>\n
I also listened to several podcasts, including Gary Mack\u2019s Mets Musings, which artfully tells the happenings of the boys in orange and blue each week. Gary’s been a Mets fan and a baseball fan for a long time and is very knowledgeable. The show has a nice, comfortable feel to it. He can go solo, but will often bring in guests with podcasts of their own, and the resulting conversations are very informative. I caught the edition where Gary talked with Rich Baxter, of the Phillies Talk podcast, and I feel for Rich, because I know what it\u2019s like to go through rebuilding seasons rooting for a bad team. I figure it\u2019s going to be until the 2019 season when Rich\u2019s Phillies will be fully competitive. But Gary seemed happy and sounded upbeat, and why not? The last time I checked the Mets were 7-3 and in 1st place in the NL East.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve been thinking about the blog, and it feels great to be writing posts for Grubby Glove again after a three-year layoff. Many friends have asked me to explain my three year absence from blogging, and I\u2019ve given it significant thought, but I still cannot explain it. For three years I couldn\u2019t even sit down to write, let alone write. Now, all of a sudden, I can\u2019t stop writing. As to the direction I\u2019ll take in the near future, if past performance is an indication of future blog posts, it will be all over the map, but my intuition tells me the following topics will be included:<\/p>\n
Teams<\/strong>: So far I\u2019ve only written at length about three teams, and that was in my short-lived \u201cLooking at the 2017 Season\u201d series. What about the other twenty-seven? Will I get to them? The answer is yes. Teams undergo all sorts of changes during the long slog we call a baseball season, and it will be at various points during that long slog that I will get to them.<\/p>\n Bryan Stow<\/strong>: When I see the progress Bryan has made I am absolutely astounded. No man that I\u2019ve known has been handed a sack of lemons this size, yet Bryan\u2019s response is courageous, inspiring and indefatigable. His \u201clemonade\u201d of sharing his commitment to \u201cno bullying\u201d by giving inspiring talks to school groups throughout the greater Bay Area is among the finest things I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n Baseball Card Shows<\/strong>: The annual TriStar Show at the Cow Palace is coming up, and that will be good for a post or two. I do a lot of buying at this show, some of it for myself, some of it for my baseball card trading pals in other parts of the country and some of it for kids in the neighborhood. My purchases will bridge the full gap from the dime box to the autograph and relics cards. Other baseball card shows dot this year\u2019s calendar, and I\u2019ll write about them as well.<\/p>\n Honorary 1962 New York Mets<\/strong>: This is an intermittent series dedicated to my beloved 1962 New York Mets, an inept bunch that many historians consider the worst baseball team ever. They taught me more ways to lose baseball games than I ever dared to imagine. During that inaugural season, they won 40 and lost 120 games, finishing 60 and a half games out of first place. In order to be recognized, a current or retired player, manager or team has to do something reminiscent of the 1962 Mets. Trust me, this isn\u2019t easy, but when someone does, I’ll be ready.<\/p>\n The Fans<\/strong>: I\u2019m going to introduce a new category where I\u2019ll be talking to fans of a variety of clubs. I\u2019ll let them tell their stories, making certain to ask questions that will get to the heart of their experience in terms of players, managers and seasons. This category will include many of YOU!<\/p>\n Stay tuned.<\/strong><\/p>\n *****************************************************************************<\/p>\n Mets Musings logo used by permission.<\/p>\n Bryan Stow photo: John Burgess\/The Press Democrat<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s been a busy week here at Grubby Glove. I published three blog posts, Baseball Card Pack Choices, the logical conclusion to a recent shopping trip, Topps Tries Alliteration & So Do I, where I gave my imagination full sway, and Postcard Fun, in which a postcard served as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73,194],"class_list":["post-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-bases","tag-bryan-stow","tag-mets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5919,"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions\/5919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/grubbyglove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bryan-e1492206960287.jpg\")
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