This is gonna be a long thread of posts because the entire thing was just surreal. When Juan arrived, I called his name and pointed out Aaron’s jersey. He was shocked and showed his handler haha. Normally they do photo ops first, but he was sent up for autos. 1/
Cell here in Cooperstown is brutal today. Too many people trying to use it. But, to say the day was a success would be an understatement. Unbelievable.
I’ve wanted a Ted Williams card since I was a kid. I finally got one this weekend. It’s beaten up, it’s not exactly rare, but I don’t care. I have a Ted Williams card and I’m absolutely stoked.
Just went to a card shop and traded in a Topps Chrome Judge for the
@Topps
MVP buyback. He grabbed some singles and a few packs and pulled this beauty! It’s /99 - one of the best pulls he’s had. Might not be huge $$ but he’s stoked!
The absolute single greatest mail day ever. The card I’ve wanted since I was 10 years old in 1990. I have it. I own it. I’m so so stoked. Best card purchase I’ve ever made
@CardPurchaser
!
There’s never been a non-Red Sox player I love more than
@JoeyVotto
. Not Griffey. Not Ripken. Nobody. This man is a National (international?) treasure, a man of the people, and is a no doubt Hall of Famer. What a legend.
She applied to one school, and she was accepted - not just to the school, but into the honors program with a pretty decent sized scholarship, too! She’s going to where my wife and I went and met. I’m so excited to see what her future holds! Congrats, Lucy!!
For anyone who didn’t already know this -
@Jared_Carrabis
is a real one. We were exchanging messages tonight and the support he shows for the LGBTQ community is completely legit. I shared his message with my daughter and it legit made her night. Keep being real. Much appreciated.
You know that pitcher who’s a piece of shit and abuses women and 30 teams have passed on yet dudes who think B*rstOol sports is cool idolize? Fuck that guy. Fuck his new video. Fuck anyone who defends him. 30 teams have passed. Why? Because he’s a piece of shit.
Today, my father passed away. We weren’t very close. We’ve had what I’d best describe as a strained relationship my entire life. But he was my dad. He took me to Fenway for the first time. He bought me my first pack of cards. He loved my kids. He drove me nuts, but I’ll miss him.
Survived dad’s services.
Wore the tie tack my wife made me with dirt from Fenway.
His friend, who’s a pastor, referred to him as a butthead and a dirt bag - nothing could be more accurate.
He was staring at me when he said how hard a person he was to love.
Glad it’s done.
You know why I care so much about this month and why I get upset when people talk out their ass and use their religion as a weapon?
Because THIS IS REAL FOR ME. THIS IS ABOUT MY CHILDREN AND THEIR FUTURE. It’s about them being treated just the same as anyone else.
Happy pride!
Alright, who did this?! This is the coolest mail day! One of my absolute favorite Brunansky cards of all time & I’ve somehow never had a signed one. This is so rad!!
No name - return address says “Bruno” haha. Looked in DMs and I’ve never sent anything there. Let me thank you!
How insane is it that Tony Gwynn was elected to the
@baseballhall
on his first ballot with ONLY 97.7% of the vote. Who the hell DIDN’T vote for Tony Gwynn, arguably the greatest hitter of the 80s and 90s?!
Last week, the boy said he wanted Juan Marichal’s autograph, “but that’s probably really hard to get.” He’s loved him ever since he saw him in the welcome video at the
@baseballhall
and “he’s always smiling.” Today, this came in the mail. He’s stoked.
Let’s celebrate Raffy’s 1000th hit with a giveaway. If you win, I’ll paint one of these two iconic Sox logos for you. Want a shot to win? Just follow me, like & RT this tweet. That’s it!
Open to Sox fans only, obviously. So keep on scrolling, O’s fans! Haha.
Winner picked 7/7!
“You’re looking at what can happen when someone believes in their kid…I’m gonna love you no matter what…my choice is to love, regardless of the hate.” -
@DwyaneWade
❤️
📺
🎙️
My nephew is 6 and allergic to everything. Trick or treating is rough for him, so I decided to make him this sweet stack of cards. Sox past and present, HOFers, stars like Shohei and Votto - and even an autographed card. He just started collecting last summer. Hope he’s stoked!
So like 2 months ago,
@Jared_Carrabis
said if my daughter sent her card of him to him, he’d sign it for her. She finally did it last week, and before it’s even come back, she’s discussing how it’s gonna be on her dorm room wall this fall.
Kid is a super fan haha.
First truck is Juan. Aaron holds up his jersey and Juan sees him. He points and waves and says hi Aaron! He points him out to his wife and she waves. Aaron was on CLOUD NINE. His favorite player remembered him.
What. A. Day.
As many of you know, our meth addict neighbor’s favorite new chant is “LGBTQ - FU. Leave our kids alone!”
It’s been bumming my wife out HARD, as an ally & a mother of two queer kids. Heres her response and I LOVE IT.
Lucy just got home and said “I just pulled into Gayville.”
We brought 29 packs of Red Sox cards with us. My daughter gave every single one out to a kid, and the kids were STOKED. I would strongly suggest you do this at the next game you go to. So worth it.
Folks - my wife is absurd. She just completed an accelerated masters program in 2 years, while being a full time teacher and mom, and finished with a 4.0. She got a 100 on her capstone, which means she got a 100 on legit EVERY assignment she did over all classes. Amazing!!
Welp, it finally happened last night. Managed to get a ‘61 Yaz at a price I was comfortable with, and in what appears to be much better shape than I ever expected. Stoked to finish off the Yaz Topps playing days run!
Daughter went to school today, despite the fact it’s day one of two (TWO?!) of senior skip day. She said there’s nobody there and nothing to do. That’s when
@Section10Pod
comes into play.
@tylermilliken_
@Suspension_10
@christophtroye
@RedSox
@GreenvilleDrive
@PortlandSeaDogs
While it’s nothing I didn’t know, seeing the actual figures is wild. This is why when I hear someone say “he sucks!” about a player, it’s hilarious. The worst major leaguer ever is still one of the greatest baseball players to ever live.
My wife is a HS art teacher. She has a class of special needs kids, & these two LOVE wrestling. I asked
@RedSoxAlmanac
if I could buy some cheap cards for them - he wouldn’t let me. He instead sent a MASSIVE stack, free of charge. This is what this hobby is all about! Thank you!
Father in law just told us he booked the flights and hotel for our trip to Baltimore in August. FINALLY, after all these years, I’ll be going to Camden Yards! So so stoked!
When your wife asks you to make her a new ID photo for her classroom door and says you can do whatever you want, you bust out one of the classic Topps designs and have fun with it. Used the Clemens rookie as a template and here we go!
It’s not every day you get to meet Luis Tiant. It’s also not every day that when you get your photo taken with Luis, you get photobombed by
@cedricmaxwell81
! Haha!
Kids been saving every dime he’s made for months, and then asked for money from family for Christmas so that he could get himself his first gaming laptop. We found one last night that was $400 off and grabbed it immediately. Store pickup this morning and now he’s beyond stoked!
Completely forgot to freak out over this mail day this week. My first playing days base Topps Ted Williams. Soft corners. Surface wear. Don’t care. It’s mine and it’s glorious. Completely with the horrendously awesome old school Sox logo!
Today I decided to grabbed 3 tickets to opening day at Fenway. Fuck the complainers and the boycotters and whoever else. This team and that place brings me joy, and I’m gonna be there to cry my eyes out as we honor Tim Wakefield. Can’t even fucking wait.
THIS KID! For her NHS service project, she collected recipes from fellow NHS members and compiled them into a cookbook she designed, printed, and bound herself. At $7 a pop, she’s making about $6 profit on each, which she’ll donate to our local food pantry. She’s sold almost 70!
Is anyone else using the fox sports app to stream the game, and does it keep dropping and going to an obnoxious grey screen and 10 seconds of music repeating over and over? I’m going to fucking lose it.
@tylermilliken_
You know what sucks? This is a day many of us have been waiting for for so, so long - but coming at the end of a awful, embarrassing sweep, it doesn’t even feel good in the least.
Remember when there was an almost non-existent issue with spam tweets, and then some moron bought Twitter and said he was gonna clean up the bots and spam tweets that barely existed, and now every day is non stop spam tweets and bots? Remember??
Fine. I give in. I’ll do it.
Me when Rich Hill made his major league debut vs me today.
Yes. I’m old. But that just means I’ve been old enough to enjoy 4 World Series championships AND the soul crushing 80s and 90s!
with spring training games starting, allow me to reintroduce myself:
- I’m Matt
- Red Sox since the day I was born. Been going to Fenway for nearly 40 years.
- born and raised in Massachusetts
- fav player: now - Casas. All time - Brunansky
- Love it when the Yankees lose.
with spring training games starting, allow me to reintroduce myself:
- I’m Steve
- lifelong pirates & guardians fan. Except when they play each other:
🏴☠️ let’s go bucs 🏴☠️
- wife and I have been to 6 ballyards (so far)
- Sliider is an 8 ft pile of neon muppet vomit
This mystery package from the one and only
@eshecker
came in the mail last week. I’ll be opening it when I get home from work. What could it be?!
Stoked, thanks Eric!!
My son asked me if I could make this for him a month ago. Between commissions and my father’s passing, it kept getting pushed off. Sometimes, you gotta just put everyone else on hold for something that will make your kid happy, so here we go. Excited to surprise him with it!
Just a few days ago, a mere 2 weeks before Christmas, the wife says “you made everyone else stuff for Christmas, I better be getting things for my classroom. Not sports. I want peanuts. And Calvin and Hobbes.” Okay then. Thanks for the advanced notice! Two down, two to go!
To celebrate the 44th anniversary of Yaz’s 3000th hit (which came 10 months before I was born), enjoy this absolutely unhinged photo of me the day I finally procured his rookie card - the card I’d wanted since I was 10 years old.
Man, nothing worse than having to deliver bad news to your kids. Our son didn’t get into the high school he applied to. He’s been asking literally daily for weeks if we’d heard back. He’d based his entire life around getting in. Poor kid is heartbroken. Ugh.
And today’s big delivery - the ‘61 Yaz I was missing! Sent in a one touch, none the less! Thats amazing! And with that delivery, 16 months of work on the Yaz Topps run is completed. Thanks to everyone who’s helped along the way!
Amazing how the national discourse is “nah, Boston fans LOVE homophobia!” as if Massachusetts wasn’t the first state to legalize gay marriage and continually leads progressive agendas.
Just because there’s idiots here doesn’t mean they’re the majority. Not even close.
I think waiting one full day is more than long enough. Time to rip some junk wax! And obviously I’m going to eat the gum and have instant regrets. It’s what I do.
@myjunkwax
Wife just came home with these two awesome gifts. They’re collapsible water bottles - but my daughter said “I figured you could use them as flasks this summer.” Hahahah!! How cool are these?? And only $1 each!!
Spent today at the college I went to, the college where I met my wife, the college where some of the most fun years of my life were spent. Why? Because my daughter will be going there in the fall! So excited!
Big day for Aaron today. First day of high school. First day going to school in a new district. First day in a school where your mom is a teacher. Hoping for a fun, enjoyable, and uneventful school year!
Hey
@RedSox
- look at the joy on this kid’s face as you walked it off last night. This is what it’s all about. Prom last weekend, graduation in 3 weeks, but I guarantee this is the happiest she’ll be this month. Thank you!
Retired numbers are hung! Wife decided she wanted it as a fence topper so here it is. Got a bit wonky when it went from one fence piece to the next as it goes down with the grade of the yard, but whatever, I’ll take it!
Spine is now done! Pretttttty happy with how it all turned out. The 1980 swoop banner (I know, it wasn’t a thing) was an image from an ‘86 pack, and I turned the 6 into a 0 haha.