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It’s really odd this year reading all the giddy posts about the National. I’m not going mainly because of work scheduling.
I had a great time every time I went to the National, but hearing all the breathless posts here and on Twitter makes me realize that the whole fraud scandal enveloping corners of the hobby will pass over in like, I don’t know, a month. People are into collecting regardless of how much criminality and fraud permeates it. I feel like screaming at some people acting like little kids rushing to The Disneyland gates for the first time, “you realize the National is full of crooks and criminals and many many scammers of all stripes who will rip you off blind given half the chance, right?” But then I think how cool it is to see all that stuff and talk to the good people. Or who I think are the good people.
Oh well. Looking forward to next year and all the dire posts about no one will go to Atlantic City.