So, Nick from Basketball Card Pro asked me to write on his site to keep it up and keep it fresh while he takes a break for some studying. I was happy to oblige. We need more basketball writers around here, and I'll gladly do my part to keep a budding blog going.
I'm going to be writing a semi-regular piece for him for about a month. I'm doing an all-out ebay selling experiment to see how much I can raise for my Murad set in the next two weeks or so. It's really just a motivator to get me to sell a bunch of my stuff that's filling white boxes that should be full of Blazers or Murad.
So check him out. Read his past articles too. He's got the stuff to keep a good blog going. And he's not a Blazer honk like so many of the rest of us basketball card bloggers. So that's a nice change for the rest of you, I'm sure.
PS
I'm waiting on five or so cards for the Murad base to be complete. I thought they would be here today so that I could show them off and have a celebratory drink. But no such luck. I'll just have to content myself on the Montana / New Mexico game instead of leafing through my Murad binder.
5 comments:
That anonymous punk is talkin trash on the site your guest writing on, too. What a woman.
Good luck getting rid of the items on Ebay. Stoked to see what else you get with the money.
Give me a call tonight.
The anonymous punk has been censored on this site. At least Nick is open minded and backs up what he says. G Moses cannot take when he is called on his views but he can dish it our to Nate McMillan and Bucks GM John Hammond
Dear Stackhouse guy,
It's not like I want to censor you. It's just sometimes you're negative just for the sake of being negative. Get over it.
But man up already. Get a profile and a public email address and post this stuff. It really is just that much more annoying when you do it behind the anonymous veil.
Yesterday, when I read your comment, I was just fed up with the snarkiness of your tone. So yeah, it's my site, I can do whatever the hell I want - including taking down drivel that has no place in a converstaion.
And you are my site's 'punch line' as it were. You're just some angry person we refer to as Stackhouse guy. Some days I tolerate it. Some days I don't. If you don't like it, build your own site and 'educate' us in your own basketball philosophy. Until then, I'll delete your spiteful comments at my discretion.
I have said before I truly like when you write about collecting. What I have not said and should have is you passion for the Blazers. When I criticize you is when you think you could be a scout or GM. I have no idea what you do for a living. I probably have no idea how to do it. It would be totally wrong of me to sit and say I could do your job better then you. I have worked in basketball at a very low level and know little compared to someone like Nate Mcmillan or John Hammond does. I can tell by how you write about a players skill set you know less then me. Batum is a fine player. He is young and one day might develop into a very good player or a star. The only reason I defended Stackhouse is because the Bucks could do far worse then what they did when the signed him. And he has proven to be a quality role player off the bench. You are right it is your site and you can do whatever you want. I will contiue to post and see what you do. Even if I am censored I will still read your site.
Anonymous,
Seriously, my opinion may not be always correct, but it's still my opinion.
I'm a sports fan. Telling a sports fan that he shouldn't give an opinion because he's never worked a front office is absurd. I said Batum, for example, should be in the starting lineup from the get-go of his return. I'm proven correct now in that. He's a key player in that rotation.
But my opinion on the Stackhouse move is no different. It's an opinion. Listen, only one team wins the title every year. The rest didn't win becuase they weren't good enough. So that means, in simple math, that 29 teams didn't scout as well, or use players as well, as the one team that won it all.
Just because Nate's the coach doesn't mean he's infallible and always correct. Sometimes, maybe just sometimes, the sports fans get it right and the higher-ups get it wrong.
You can continue to post. But if you go way negative again, I'll delete at my discretion.
Listen, I'd much rather have a voice commenting on the site that is passionate and informed, but the over the top negativity isn't going to get you very far.
And you could always come out from behind the anonymous veil and leave yourself open to rebuttal as well. Just saying.
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