Yeah, definitely something odd going on with Blogger's reading list. It's started dredging up posts from long-dead blogs that are five, eight, 10 years old. I've actually seen a couple of old Gint-A-Cuffs posts. I got excited for a second and thought Mark had reappeared and was reviving it for this year's A&G set! I admit I've clicked on a couple of those once-active blogs and read an old post or two. Things were a bit easier on the blogs then, you didn't have to fight a bunch of other social media outlets for hobby eyes. Back then, too, it was easier for me to select a Card of the Year. I'd devote a post to it every year. But I haven't done that for quite awhile. It took Nachos Grande's annual End-of-the-Year Awards (today's the last day for nominations ), for me to think about this year's Card of the Year. I thought and I thought and I thought ... and then I left the category blank. Nothing was coming to me. That's not a s...
I did my usual blog post ritual Tuesday, writing it up in the early afternoon and then setting a publish time for a few hours in the future. The post did publish and it appeared on everyone's blog rolls, but it didn't show up on the blogger dashboard/reading list. That's happened periodically over the years and eventually it does show up. I waited and waited and it still didn't. It's on the reading list now if you go back a day or so on the dashboard, but I have a feeling some readers missed it. So let's see what happens with this one. There's a weird synchronicity going on with the 1974 Topps set right now. Maybe that's not the right description but that's what I'm calling it. For starters, it's the 50th anniversary of the first set I ever saw, the first cards I ever owned. I've written about that lots and have mentioned that it's the anniversary of my first baseball cards several times this year. One of the more recent ones...