Collectibles - Page 6

godwulf · 03-08-2004, 06:18 PM

I collect Baseball stuff. It started with cards and signed baseballs, but then I found out that you could buy the actual, game-used bats that the players used - which led to my starting to collect jerseys, gloves, spikes, hats, along with the more 'normal' and mainstream collecting of photos, bobbleheads, etc. This collection has completely taken over the master bedroom of my house, and is creeping slowly down the hall and threatening the living room.

I live in Arizona, and love the Diamondbacks, so most of my stuff is DBacks-related, including most of the 400+ game-used bats. My sister gave me one of Randy Johnson's game-used gloves for Christmas. The mascot of the now-defunct Phoenix Firebirds minor league club is on a manneqin in a corner of the master bedroom.

The aforementioned sister has become a baseball 'nut' and collector as well - she recently bought the sign that hung on the fence outside the baseball field ('Minnifield Field') on Northern Exposure, to put on the wall above her computer, and she bought me an old bat that was a prop in the 'Unnatural' episode of the X-Files, season six.

I used to collect other things, and still do buy a lot of books, but my love for all things Baseball has pretty much taken over my collecting interest...my life...my house...

xoxoxoBruce · 03-08-2004, 06:36 PM

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but my love for all things Baseball has pretty much taken over my collecting interest...my life...my house...

And your life savings?

Welcome to the Cellar, godwulf.

godwulf · 03-08-2004, 06:45 PM

>Welcome to the Cellar, godwulf<

Thanks!

Savings?

Oh, yeah...that's what we encourage the kids to do, in order to support us in our old age, which may be any day now.

Elspode · 03-08-2004, 11:37 PM

We Cellarites are highly visually oriented...photos, please? Or did you spend all the digital camera money, too?

godwulf · 03-09-2004, 07:34 AM

I think I've figured out how to do that. I'll give it a shot.

godwulf · 03-09-2004, 07:43 AM

Sorry about that. Not sure what I did wrong. I pasted in the url's for the ImageStation photos that I'd previously uploaded, when clicking on the "IMG" button prompted me to do so. Mmm... Maybe somebody has to review and 'pass' the photos before they are visible, do you suppose?

wolf · 03-09-2004, 10:08 AM

If the timer hasn't expired yet .... (there's a time limit on editing posts here)

each of your images has a ".thumb" notation at the end of the url.

Go back in and delete it.

EDIT: (and they are really cool! You do need a bigger room, though.)

lumberjim · 03-09-2004, 10:11 AM

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Originally posted by Elspode
We Cellarites are highly visually oriented...photos, please? Or did you spend all the digital camera money, too?

you're asking for photos of the collectibles, not godwulf, right?

godwulf, have you any use for a 2003 Phillies yearbook? free?

Elspode · 03-09-2004, 12:58 PM

Good Lord...where do you *live*? I mean, you do have a house just for the baseball stuff, right?

As far as I know, only Bruce has a house that is actually bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

hot_pastrami · 03-09-2004, 01:20 PM

I collect dust occasionally.

It seems that I have no particular sort of thing which I obsessively collect. There are many things which I casually collect, but nothing dramatic... books, movies, software, records (vinyl and bake-a-lite), computer parts, a few coins, etc. As far as my stuff goes, there is no one type of item, or theme, which I gravitate towards. I'm such a generalist loser.

godwulf · 03-09-2004, 04:01 PM

There, I fixed it so the photos are actually visible.

Thanks for the offer of the Phillies yearbook, lumberjim...the Phils were actually my team of choice before the DBacks started up...but thanks anyway. It's all I can do to find space these days for the DBacks stuff.

One of my favorite Baseball quotes, along with one of the all-time great t-shirts, came from a Phillie, the infamous John Kruk, who showed up late one year for Spring Training after undergoing an operation for testicular cancer; his t-shirt read "If you don't let me play, I'll take my ball and go home."

warch · 03-09-2004, 05:17 PM

Zounds! The bats...my god...the bats! There was another professed bat collector earlier...but bat bats.

nekee · 03-09-2004, 06:19 PM

Your room is very organized, are you sure you aren't the one who stole the phanatic's head????
hmmmm........

Beestie · 03-09-2004, 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by Undertoad
I actually need some copper tape and can't find any! It's for shielding the internal electronics cavity of a bass. Specialty online music stores will sell it by the inch. Why else do they sell copper tape, some plumbing thing?

I need some too - been looking since 1997. Can not find it ANYWHERE. Lemme know if you locate some - I'll do likewise.

zippyt · 03-09-2004, 07:49 PM

copper tape at , http://www.can-dotape.com/foil-tape.htm ,
and http://www.semsupplies.com/Copper%20Tape.html ,
and http://www.2spi.com/catalog/spec_prep/5tapes.shtml

03-08-2004, 11:37 PM	#4
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	We Cellarites are highly visually oriented...photos, please? Or did you spend all the digital camera money, too? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-09-2004, 07:34 AM	#5
godwulf Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 96	I think I've figured out how to do that. I'll give it a shot. Last edited by godwulf; 03-09-2004 at 03:55 PM.

03-09-2004, 10:08 AM	#7
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	If the timer hasn't expired yet .... (there's a time limit on editing posts here) each of your images has a ".thumb" notation at the end of the url. Go back in and delete it. EDIT: (and they are really cool! You do need a bigger room, though.) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis Last edited by wolf; 03-09-2004 at 10:10 AM.

03-09-2004, 12:58 PM	#9
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Good Lord...where do you live? I mean, you do have a house just for the baseball stuff, right? As far as I know, only Bruce has a house that is actually bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-09-2004, 01:20 PM	#10
hot_pastrami I am meaty Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 1,119	I collect dust occasionally. It seems that I have no particular sort of thing which I obsessively collect. There are many things which I casually collect, but nothing dramatic... books, movies, software, records (vinyl and bake-a-lite), computer parts, a few coins, etc. As far as my stuff goes, there is no one type of item, or theme, which I gravitate towards. I'm such a generalist loser. __________________ Hot Pastrami!

03-08-2004, 06:18 PM	#1
godwulf Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 96	I collect Baseball stuff. It started with cards and signed baseballs, but then I found out that you could buy the actual, game-used bats that the players used - which led to my starting to collect jerseys, gloves, spikes, hats, along with the more 'normal' and mainstream collecting of photos, bobbleheads, etc. This collection has completely taken over the master bedroom of my house, and is creeping slowly down the hall and threatening the living room. I live in Arizona, and love the Diamondbacks, so most of my stuff is DBacks-related, including most of the 400+ game-used bats. My sister gave me one of Randy Johnson's game-used gloves for Christmas. The mascot of the now-defunct Phoenix Firebirds minor league club is on a manneqin in a corner of the master bedroom. The aforementioned sister has become a baseball 'nut' and collector as well - she recently bought the sign that hung on the fence outside the baseball field ('Minnifield Field') on Northern Exposure, to put on the wall above her computer, and she bought me an old bat that was a prop in the 'Unnatural' episode of the X-Files, season six. I used to collect other things, and still do buy a lot of books, but my love for all things Baseball has pretty much taken over my collecting interest...my life...my house...

03-08-2004, 06:45 PM	#3
godwulf Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 96	>Welcome to the Cellar, godwulf< Thanks! Savings? Oh, yeah...that's what we encourage the kids to do, in order to support us in our old age, which may be any day now.

03-09-2004, 07:43 AM	#6
godwulf Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 96	Sorry about that. Not sure what I did wrong. I pasted in the url's for the ImageStation photos that I'd previously uploaded, when clicking on the "IMG" button prompted me to do so. Mmm... Maybe somebody has to review and 'pass' the photos before they are visible, do you suppose?

03-09-2004, 04:01 PM	#11
godwulf Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 96	There, I fixed it so the photos are actually visible. Thanks for the offer of the Phillies yearbook, lumberjim...the Phils were actually my team of choice before the DBacks started up...but thanks anyway. It's all I can do to find space these days for the DBacks stuff. One of my favorite Baseball quotes, along with one of the all-time great t-shirts, came from a Phillie, the infamous John Kruk, who showed up late one year for Spring Training after undergoing an operation for testicular cancer; his t-shirt read "If you don't let me play, I'll take my ball and go home."

03-09-2004, 05:17 PM	#12
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	Zounds! The bats...my god...the bats! There was another professed bat collector earlier...but bat bats.

03-09-2004, 06:19 PM	#13
nekee naughty nurse Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bummington NEW YORK Posts: 36	the phanatic head Your room is very organized, are you sure you aren't the one who stole the phanatic's head???? hmmmm........ __________________ "You are about to enter a world...a world where life and death are meaningless and pain is God." --- Captain Spaulding

03-09-2004, 07:49 PM	#15
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	copper tape at , http://www.can-dotape.com/foil-tape.htm , and http://www.semsupplies.com/Copper%20Tape.html , and http://www.2spi.com/catalog/spec_prep/5tapes.shtml __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

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