You know you are a card junkie when.....

[aquarius31]

Your wife calls you a dork for closely inspecting, sniffing, commenting on your cards (something like "damn look at the colors on that one") and you take it as a complement

[e107collector]

When the wallpaper display on your cellphone is an E107 Honus Wagner.

Tony

[terjung]

When your wife walks into your office asking what you are looking at on the computer and you respond, "porn", but she dismisses the comment by saying, "No, you're not. You're looking at baseball card crap again", turns around, and leaves the room without ever seeing what was on the screen.

(This happened this weeked. BTW, she was right. I was looking at baseball card stuff and not at porn.)

... maybe I need help.

[Howe’s Hunter]

you sneak on to the Net 54 website at least eight times during a nine hour work day to make sure you're not missing anything.

I check here more than eBay, and I could actually buy cards there, not just read about them.

[WillBBC]

Originally Posted by terjung

When your wife walks into your office asking what you are looking at on the computer and you respond, "porn", but she dismisses the comment by saying, "No, you're not. You're looking at baseball card crap again", turns around, and leaves the room without ever seeing what was on the screen.

(This happened this weeked. BTW, she was right. I was looking at baseball card stuff and not at porn.)

... maybe I need help.

You know you're a card junkie when baseball cards become porn.

Smelling cards is number one. My girlfriend never gets it. I smell every new card I get. Be it some junk wax at Target or something in the mail. It must be sniffed.

[atx840]

Get frustrated with my daughter when she keeps creasing and roughing up the edges on the cardboard coasters in the restaurant....

[A2000]

When you have 5 or more bookmarks on your browser dedicated to baseball card related websites.

[prewarsports]

When you still eat the gum in a 1987 Wax Pack you just opened last week.

[AndyG09]

When you're constantly looking for the mailman to come down the block and then shake his hand after he delivers the cards you've been waiting for.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Back in the early 1980's a fellow I knew got so caught up in his pursuit of the T206 set that he sold his riding lawnmower to buy an O'Hara. Problem was he lived on about a two acre lot and his grass went wild.

He is now divorced, don't guess his wife shared his love of the monster?

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by terjung

When your wife walks into your office asking what you are looking at on the computer and you respond, "porn", but she dismisses the comment by saying, "No, you're not. You're looking at baseball card crap again", turns around, and leaves the room without ever seeing what was on the screen.

(This happened this weeked. BTW, she was right. I was looking at baseball card stuff and not at porn.)

... maybe I need help.

My wife stopped asking a long time ago.. She'd probably be relieved if she were to catch me looking at porn..

[Exhibitman]

When you wear clothing until it has holes in it but your cards are immaculately stored...

When you would rather go to a card show than get laid...

When your wife sends you off to the National every year to "go play with the other dipsh*ts..."

When you add up the cost of a family vacation and then determine how many cards on your want list you could buy instead...

[Gene Palmer]

When you start looking for stats on your wife's back.

[Northviewcats]

when you come home from work and find a great lot of cards on eBay. You place a bid and get a message from eBay that shill bidding is against company policy. You just bid on your own auction.

Yep, I did that.

Best regards,

Joe

[CW]

when you start rating women on a card grading scale -- poor for the dogs, very good for the butterfaces, near mint for the "girl next door" types, and gem mint for the hotties.

[2dueces]

When someone hands you their business card and you grade it cause there is a dinged edge.

[Cy2009]

. . . when I look at my XM radio and it has

MLB Network
Red Sox SP
Josh Beckett

and the first thing I think is Single Print (for SP and not Starting Pitcher).

Cy