Welcome to the binder, jack***

Player collections and specialty collections. We all have some form of collection beyond sets and teams. For the most part, we try and get all of one player or another. For me, you can look at my Pierce Project, my Ben Petrick collection, and future projects of players that will go into Joe Crede and Tadahito Iguchi.

Then you have your specialty collections. Nick over at Dime Boxes has about 1.7 million of those. You have Night Owl with his awesome night cards, Robert and his Serial Insanity, GCRL's double play cards.... you get the idea. Me - I have a few specialty collections that I am working to get off the ground. I love throwback uniforms, as you find on my Thursday feature. I love miscut cards. GRCL made me love the turn at second. And I love high pants.

It's the high pants cards that is becoming a new love for me. If you look back in the game, the pants kept getting lower until a great majority nowadays wear pajama pants. It's rare when you find the players that get it just right. Totally proper would be wearing stirrups with your high pants, like...

 

Mr. Outman here. But, if you can get a decent looking high cuff going, you will be added to a new binder collection of recent cards showing players that still wear it right. So we get to see the likes of

Ubaldo Jimenez.

 

Juan Pierre.

Mark Ellis.

And Cody Ross.

My dilemma? To properly run this binder, I will have to add cards of players like this...

PED use aside - Clemens is a total A-hole. He's those cards I love to put in trade packages because I can't stand him. Now, I may have to keep them.

Ya know - the collection is really my choice. I guess I could decide on high cuffed cards that "look good". It's all subjective, right? Ok - you get a card, Mr. Clemens. I just hope there are none that show Barry Bonds high cuffed.

Crap.

Sunday SIL: Fashion week...er....day.

Let's dive into the binder for this week's SIL. I've got quite a few quality choices. It probably helps that, in a technical sense, the entire binder is stuff I like. However, what to choose and share with you, the reader?

I was torn between a couple cards. See, football season started today (for you living under a rock or dead). Now, I have just one single football card in the binder, mainly because I just don't collect football. I think the last pack of football I opened was last century. There is not a single basketball card in the binder. I would guess the last basketball pack I ripped was the same time as football. The binder is probably 90% baseball and 10% hockey (and 2% butter scotch ripple). The start of football, with the replacement refs, reminded me that hockey starts soon. At least, IT FRIGGING SHOULD! Both sides need to stop being jerks and make the deal happen. That being said, the other card I was thinking of featuring is one of the hockey cards in the binder. But I think I'll hold that card off for a week or so and instead, showcase a card with a player that knows what a ball player should look like.

I do my little turn on the catwalk.  One the catwalk, yeah

Josh Outman, who I believe is currently a Rockie, knows how to work the stirrup. I have talked before about the look of a MLB player. Pajamas look like crap. High cuffs rule.

Crappy.

Rocks.

Facepalm.

Can date my sister.

We clear? Good.