James
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James
@chonkybuford
Cincy Sports Fan & Binge watcher of The Office
Ohio, USA Katılım Nisan 2020
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The #Reds today recalled OF Rece Hinds from Triple-A Louisville.
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🇧🇷 Sources: FC Cincinnati engage Neymar's camp on preliminary talks.
Very preliminary. Still internal discussions at club about whether to push for the global superstar... but Cincy is gauging Neymar's interest/requirements.
w/ @PaulTenorio nytimes.com/athletic/71842…
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@LanceMcAlister Sure do! I collect mostly soccer but have gotten back into baseball, I got this 1/25 Topps Now Evander and it’s probably my favorite card!

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My yearly ode to Easter and my box of baseball cards:
When I was a kid, my grandma bought me a box of Topps baseball cards every Easter. Man, did I love opening those 25 packs in the box, one by one. I'd sort through those cards, declaring "got him, got him, need him.....got him."
Over the years, I've created a tradition with Casey. I buy a pack for each of us and we open them at the same time. For three straight years, I've found the first packs at the Ace Hardware in Independence. $6.99 for 14 cards. Dang.
I feel 10 years old when this time of year rolls around. The rush is still there. I still get excited opening a pack. We shout out names of players and compare packs as we thumb through our packs.
The cards have changed so much over the years. Today's cards are slick, shiny and sharp looking. They now list WAR and OPS on the back of hitter's cards and WHIP on the back of pitcher's cards. The cards even list the Twitter handle for players.
I'll admit it, I miss the baseball cards I grew up with in the 1970's and 80's. Those cards were plain and simple cardboard. I loved the cartoons on the back, with something like "Richie Hebner loves to restore old cars in the offseason," with a drawing of him and a car.
I had several baseball card guidelines growing up: I never believed in buying a set of cards. I thought that was cheating. I bought pack after pack after pack, trying to complete the set on my own. I sorted the cards by teams, put rubber bands around them and put them in a shoe box. I never, ever put cards in my bike spokes and rode around the neighborhood.
I would sit on the front porch with my friends and make trades. I spent my summer of 1975, as a nine-year old, searching for the elusive Topps Johnny Bench card. It was card number 260. I reached a point that summer where I had 659 of the 660 cards, with Bench being the only card I needed. I wound up trading my entire box of "doubles" to a friend for his Bench card.
Doubles, the cards you had duplicates of, carried little value back then. I never considered the value of having multiple Pete Rose or Hank Aaron cards. I never owned a Beckett's price guide, because I never worried about the dollar value of my cards. I didn't collect the cards to sell them, I collected them because I loved baseball. Heck, I'd take a pen and put a check next to the player's name on the team checklist card when I got that card.
I ruined a complete set of Topps 1976 cards when I was 10-years old. An adult neighbor told me I should preserve my cards in a photo album. So, one by one, I put all the cards in an album. A few months later I pulled the clear sheet back and tried to life the card off the page. The front of the card pulled off, the back of the card remained, stuck to the adhesive on the album. Stupid. Stupid. Me. That was a heck of a set in 1976.
I'll admit that I eventually started chasing and purchasing multiple rookies cards for the likes of Jose Canseco, Dwight Gooden and Gregg Jefferies. All in hopes of selling them for big money down the road. Well, that never happened. In the truest sense of innocent lost, I sold a Mike Schmidt rookie card and used the money for a spring break trip to Panama City when I was in college. I hang my head in shame.
I think my favorite card is the 1989 Ken Griffey Jr. Fleer rookie card.
I still have many of my boxes of cards in the basement. Others have been lost in moves over the years. Most of the cards are now in albums, protected by insert sheets. Sometimes I sit and flip through those cards. They take me back to my childhood and certain moments in my life. I can still remember exactly where I was when I got some of those cards.
I remember when Topps started making the triple pack of cards that would hang on the rack. We'd sit at the Convenient off Denallen Drive in Anderson and pick through those cards before we bought them. You could see the three cards you were getting on the front and the three cards on the back. We thought that was cool.
Man, I miss those days.
Did you collect baseball cards?

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VAN VEEN KO'S LITTLER!
Gian van Veen is back in business!
The European Champion halts Luke Littler's winning run with a dramatic deciding-leg victory in Manchester!
📲 bit.ly/NewPDCApp
#PLDarts | QF3
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Please be real please be real please be real
GOAL@goal
Liverpool have decided that Xabi Alonso will be their coach next season, according to BILD 🤯 The Merseyside club will be hoping that Xabi Alonso will be able to get them challenging for the title 🏆 Get ready for next season, as we might see the best version of Florian Wirtz 🤩
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@ronaldofanMEOW @tombogert @PaulTenorio @TheAthleticFC I’ll take the copium my friend, the working relationship between Liverpool and Cincy is already there with getting Mrozek. We can dream, though
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@tombogert @PaulTenorio @TheAthleticFC Salah will be going to Cincinnati so he can hang out with his muslim friend Mr. Kubaldo
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Sources: No active talks for San Diego FC to sign Liverpool legend Mohamed Salah this summer.
Chicago Fire also currently aren't working on a Salah deal sources add. MLS reporting w/ @PaulTenorio
Where will Salah sign? w/ @TheAthleticFC staff
nytimes.com/athletic/71456…
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@fccincinnati you know what to do
Liverpool FC@LFC
Mohamed Salah is to bring the curtain down on his illustrious career with Liverpool Football Club at the end of the 2025-26 season. The time to fully celebrate his legacy and achievements will follow later in the year when he bids farewell to Anfield ❤️
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@OrlandoCitySC @MLS @FIFAWorldCup @AntoGriezmann @Atleti ICL he looks good in y’all’s colors. Good for you guys!
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ANTOINE GRIEZMANN IS A LION 🦁👑
We have signed global soccer icon and 2018 @FIFAWorldCup winner @AntoGriezmann from @Atleti. He will join the club in July 2026 on a contract through the 2027–28 season, with an option for 2028–29 as a Designated Player 👏
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@WarPigsChief @fccincinnati I’m such a fan of Ender, really happy to see him score and play so well yesterday, hope we keep him as long as we can
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.@fccincinnati — The Morning After™️:
- Maybe the most “man, they needed that one” FC game in recent memory.
- That aside, there are still massive tactical problems with this team.
- If Ender can play that way consistently, he’ll be a summer target.
- Rest up. Make changes.
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