Abishai100
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Sports collectors diorama.
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When I was a boy, I decided to purchase the now-gold '86 Topps-Traded MLB trading-card set destined to become a hallmark-image of things of sports-fanfare 'consciousness' in the American Homeland. Here I am some decades later thinking why one special card-item in that great set, the Jose Canseco Athletics rookie-card. I kept this card separate and categorized 'religiously' separate from my other items of some personal/cultural value on Earth. Today, it's my Selfie-trophy for diorama (Facebook-like).
Sure, the famous Canseco, sometimes facing complex media interactions evolution, was some great prodigy and acquisition for a World Series eyeing Athletics team fated to make October-baseball something of a Martian envy (sure). My '86-Topps rookie-card I kept (separate) now seems to me something pretty superstitious. Think how Oakland's Raiders moved to Vegas. This would be my way to think, IMO, that modern networks/TV culture fosters an electric-cardboard exchange(s) intuition for the Romanticization of capitalism (sure).
I'm a fan of Phillies and Braves stuff, and I also boast the Greg Maddux (Donruss) rookie-card (Atlanta Braves), but my Athletics-Canseco '86 (Topps) seems to have me liking West Coast sports interest, beyond proverbial level-0, for an East Coast resident/blogger (ha). The '86 Topps-Traded set did, after all, cement the Romanticism-note that modern era cards/collection was arguably as photogenic as those of yesteryear.
I decided that simple life and fanfare made for greater storytelling in cases of real Rationalism. And it's all thanx to my cyber-fascination with my Canseco-'86 'trophy' of Earthling/American proportion, and maybe it warrants a tale of fate-rerouted for capitalist-school (ha).
"These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell" (Jose Canseco).
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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)
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When I was a boy, I decided to purchase the now-gold '86 Topps-Traded MLB trading-card set destined to become a hallmark-image of things of sports-fanfare 'consciousness' in the American Homeland. Here I am some decades later thinking why one special card-item in that great set, the Jose Canseco Athletics rookie-card. I kept this card separate and categorized 'religiously' separate from my other items of some personal/cultural value on Earth. Today, it's my Selfie-trophy for diorama (Facebook-like).
Sure, the famous Canseco, sometimes facing complex media interactions evolution, was some great prodigy and acquisition for a World Series eyeing Athletics team fated to make October-baseball something of a Martian envy (sure). My '86-Topps rookie-card I kept (separate) now seems to me something pretty superstitious. Think how Oakland's Raiders moved to Vegas. This would be my way to think, IMO, that modern networks/TV culture fosters an electric-cardboard exchange(s) intuition for the Romanticization of capitalism (sure).
I'm a fan of Phillies and Braves stuff, and I also boast the Greg Maddux (Donruss) rookie-card (Atlanta Braves), but my Athletics-Canseco '86 (Topps) seems to have me liking West Coast sports interest, beyond proverbial level-0, for an East Coast resident/blogger (ha). The '86 Topps-Traded set did, after all, cement the Romanticism-note that modern era cards/collection was arguably as photogenic as those of yesteryear.
I decided that simple life and fanfare made for greater storytelling in cases of real Rationalism. And it's all thanx to my cyber-fascination with my Canseco-'86 'trophy' of Earthling/American proportion, and maybe it warrants a tale of fate-rerouted for capitalist-school (ha).
"These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell" (Jose Canseco).
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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)
