I finally got back to the Dallas Card Show. The DCS is over 700 tables of cards, autos and memorabilia. I arrived at about 11:00 am on Saturday and there was no where to park. Both parking garages were full. There were cars everywhere looking for a place to park. I eventually found a spot across the street and down the block at a grocery store. Everyone I saw getting out of their cars were heading to the show. I've been to this show many times and I've never seen it this crowded. Once I got in it was nuts! There is the main room a satellite room and about 4 side rooms. Every room was 2 or 3 people deep at every table. You could hardly navigate the floor. If anyone thinks the hobby is struggling hasn't been to the Dallas Card Show.
This was taken about 3 hours later, right before I left. The middle of the picture depicts how it really was...wall to wall people. Despite all of the people, it was fun to get back and see some friends.
On to the ramblings!
* My Rangers are not hitting. Same problem that they had last year. As a fan, it's frustrating, as a coach and former player, I understand. Hitting a round ball coming at you with crazy movement and speed with a round bat is, without a doubt, the hardest thing in sports to do. I remember when I was playing ball. When you're in a slump, the baseball looks like it's moving a 100 mph and dipping and diving and is the size of a BB. When you're on a hot streak, the ball just floats to the plate and is the size of a beach ball. I'm ready for the Rangers to start seeing beach balls.
* I went to DCS with the plan to find myself a real Mickey Mantle card and a rookie Mike Trout. I wasn't sure which Mickey Mantle card I was looking for, but I knew I wanted one that wasn't graded. Quite a hard task when you don't know what you want. I finally decided on the 1960 Topps Mickey Mantle. I found 3 or 4 of them, but didn't pull the trigger on them. Only one dealer was willing to negotiate but he was so overpriced there was no way to make a deal.
* I didn't leave the show empty-handed. I worked a really good deal on this Evan Carter auto-patch card.
The dealer had it in his display case and when I asked about it, he said he just wanted it gone. I was happy to oblige.
* My desk, where I do baseball cards, is a total mess. I've got to re-organize everything. I've got stacks of cards that need to be sorted, logged into TCDB, or just put away. On top of all that is the mail, stacks of papers that need to be gone through...I'm glad school is almost out so I can get some things done.
* Another pick-up at the Dallas Card Show was the Ripken rookie.
Here's the thing on the Ripken rookie...I already have one, but I can't find it. Back a long, long time ago when I was pretty broke, I went and pulled all of my cards that were worth anything with the intent to sell them. Well, I never sold them, but I haven't a clue where I put them. The Ripken rookie was one of those cards. Eventually, I'll find it and have one for sell or trade, but for now, I have this one for my set. This gets me down to about 5 cards to finish the set.
* The other card I was searching for at the Dallas Card Show was the Trout rookie. I walked all over that show. I'm sure I didn't see all of the tables, but I saw most of them and only saw one rookie Trout. It was graded and was a 9.5. Needless to say, it was out of my range...plus, I don't wanted a graded one anyway.
* After I get my desk re-organized, I have about 1000 cards to list on buysportscards.com. I struggle with deciding to list to sell or put them on TCDB for trade. There are times that I think if they were on TCDB I'd have alot more trades happening. I know if I list to sell, eventually, I'll get some money to put into buying cards that I want or need.
* My team finished our season 18-10-1. We struggled at the beginning of the year, but played really well in district. We finished 2nd in district, losing only to the 1st place team. We swept our biggest rival for the first time and made the playoffs for the 4th consecutive year. We didn't fare too well in the playoffs and lost 2 games to 1 in the first round. All in all, it was a good year. Still feel like we should have won in the playoffs and go to the 2nd round, but as one of my players said,"The baseball gods weren't looking down on us this year." Now, I just have to get through the next two weeks to get to summer.
That's all the ramblings for now.
Peace,
Michael
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