How Many Vintage collectors Sprinkle in Some Pujols?

[sgbernard]

True story: I've bought two new card packs in the last ten years. One was an Upper Deck 2001 pack, and I pulled a Pujols RC. I have it in a top-loader, and I'll be keeping it. It doesn't live with my vintage cards, it lives with its relatives from the late 1980s

[Griffins]

I"m with Glyn. Once Pettite and Clemens got caught I realized everyone is suspect, with Pujols at the top of the list.

[pgellis]

I also agree with others about Pujols and the juice. I am a huge Red Sox fan and have been saying for a long time that Big Papi had to be on the juice. I feel the same about Pujols.

That being said, I would not invest a penny into any modern rookie cards, no matter who it is. Before all the steroid info came out (when I was much younger), I had some Sammy Sosa RCs, Jose Canseco RCs, Mark McGwire autographs, etc., etc. Wouldn't be able to get rid of those for a penny nowadays.

There's just too much uncertainty with any ballplayers that excel way above the average ballplayer.

[teetwoohsix]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks Pujols is juicing.

Clayton

[Rob D.]

Simply put, you never know who's juicing:

[alanu]

LaRussa would never let a juicer play on his team!!

[canjond]

Jeter's the last clean star from the early 2000s.

[caramelcard]

Originally Posted by alanu

LaRussa would never let a juicer play on his team!!

Where's the smiley face or wink? This is a joke right? LaRussa is the reason that juice is so prevalent in baseball.

[Woundedduck]

Originally Posted by pgellis

I also agree with others about Pujols and the juice. I am a huge Red Sox fan and have been saying for a long time that Big Papi had to be on the juice. I feel the same about Pujols.

That being said, I would not invest a penny into any modern rookie cards, no matter who it is. Before all the steroid info came out (when I was much younger), I had some Sammy Sosa RCs, Jose Canseco RCs, Mark McGwire autographs, etc., etc. Wouldn't be able to get rid of those for a penny nowadays.

There's just too much uncertainty with any ballplayers that excel way above the average ballplayer.

Actually autos of Canseco, Sosa, & McGwire still do pretty well..... Especially McGwire.

[nebboy]

Im a BIG fan of his charity work. His one of the most stand up guys off field.
If you don't know about him its worth you time to find out. I hope he doesn't caught up in the wrong side of things.


BB could use another good guy without a bunch of ***********************************s

[Anthony S.]

Probably bought my last pack of cards when I was 13 back in 1981. But the countless shoe boxes of cards I collected between 1975 and 1981 remain in my old room at my parent's house, and I know my nephew loves to swing by with his friends and plow through the cards. I've told them they can take whatever they want, but I still receive phone calls from my mom in which she insists on reading off the names of the players on the cards they've just selected, to make sure it okay:

Mom: "Hi Dude*, Lou picked out a few cards today. I'll just read them off to y..."

Me: "Mom, whatever he takes is fine."

Mom: "Well, I just want to make sure that..."

Me: "Mom, trust me, it's fine."

Mom: "Tim Wallach, Dale Murphy, Marc Hill, Manny San...um..."

Me: "Sanguillen. Mom, just let him have them." (Raising my voice) "Lou! Can you hear me, Lou? Take the cards."

Mom: "Jack Clark, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey....Isn't he the one that had all those children with all those different women? Mickey Rivers, Ed Goodson..."

I've received that phone call 10 times, minimum.

* yes, mom calls me "dude." It's a California thing.

[Griffins]

Anthony, I'm starting to wonder if we have the same mother and she gave us both the same name to avoid confusion.

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by Anthony S.

* yes, mom calls me "dude." It's a California thing.

Dude, that is some funny shit.