Baseball Card Hall of Fame

January 17, 2011 9:01 AM

Baseball Card Hall of Fame [via mefi projects]
posted by jjray (23 comments total)

Best Laundry Folding

"#christ i just washed that for you"
posted by mrzarquon at 9:16 AM on January 17, 2011

I can't stop laughing.
posted by IvoShandor at 9:21 AM on January 17, 2011

Seriously. I think I am going to have a heart attack.
posted by IvoShandor at 9:22 AM on January 17, 2011

Best Mindrays

heh.
posted by The Whelk at 9:31 AM on January 17, 2011

No no no. I refuse to have my heart broken by another of cortex's blogs. Not again you mercurial son of a bitch!
posted by ND¢ at 9:37 AM on January 17, 2011 [4 favorites]

Oh hi!

Not again you mercurial son of a bitch!

We just watched another episode of X-Files, I swear to god.
posted by cortex at 9:41 AM on January 17, 2011

Most Like an Egyptian just about killed me.
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:43 AM on January 17, 2011 [1 favorite]

We just watched another episode of X-Files, I swear to god.

Is there a place I could find proof of this watching, say online or something?

Thank you for putting Larry Bird in there.
posted by jessamyn at 9:47 AM on January 17, 2011

So my job is to watch the X-Files and say stupid things and pause the DVD when we need to make notes about time for a screen cap. All I can say is that I did my job. It's just waiting on cortex's broken fancy pants scripts that "save time" or whatever in formatting episode writeups.

You might think it's easier to fix a script than to cut up baseball cards, glue them on paper, think up witty captions, scan them, build a website for them, and make a soul-searching projects post. But you'd be wrong.
posted by Secretariat at 10:05 AM on January 17, 2011 [1 favorite]

Totally missing the best sideburns going to Carl Yastrzemski.
posted by Threeway Handshake at 10:09 AM on January 17, 2011

Threeway Handshake: Totally missing the best sideburns going to Carl Yastrzemski.

Oh, please let it be Don Mattingly.
posted by Doofus Magoo at 10:14 AM on January 17, 2011

Actually the award for Best Facial Hair, Any Sport would have to go to Bill "Jebidiah" Walton, I believe.
posted by jonmc at 10:22 AM on January 17, 2011

"Best Existential Brooding"

Perfect. I love that Frank Thomas card.
posted by carsonb at 10:57 AM on January 17, 2011

I'm pretty much a sucker for anything to do with baseball cards, so I think this is tops. (Yes, I thought about making a really bad Topps pun in that last sentence.)
posted by dhammond at 10:57 AM on January 17, 2011

C'mon, let's be fair. Zach Galifinakis is doing the Jeff Reardon impersonation.
posted by mcstayinskool at 11:13 AM on January 17, 2011

We just watched another episode of X-Files, I swear to god.

Lies make the baby Scully bore at the end of the eighth season, named after Mulder's father and gave up for adoption during the end of the ninth season after Scully felt she could no longer provide the safety it needed cry.
posted by ND¢ at 11:32 AM on January 17, 2011

This has better legs than Cotex's other baseball card blog.

For your next, Cortex, I propose a blog detailing baseball cards where no further humor need be injected. This card may be the subject of the inaugural post.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 12:51 PM on January 17, 2011

The (what I am reading as) deadpan tagging of each entry with #baseball is making me snicker.
posted by yarrow at 2:16 PM on January 18, 2011

Woohoo! Cortex made me a handbound version of these for MeFightClub's Secret Santa this year! I hope the blog catches on like gangbusters!
posted by themadjuggler at 3:25 PM on January 18, 2011

When I dutifully tagged the Larry Bird card with #baseball, I felt a sort of renewed purpose in the world, yes.

Also, at a suggestion from the Projects thread, I've started tagging the cards with the player name, because, hey, why not. I don't know who most of them are, but thankfully I hadn't emptied my office trash can since cranking out most of the newer ones so I was able to get forensic and backtag most of them. There are a few mysteries from the original batch that went into the original book themadjuggler just mentioned, so if anybody feels like nerding out on late-80s early-90s baseball player identification, check out the oldest dozen or so and let me know if you know who the hell those guys are that aren't named yet.
posted by cortex at 3:39 PM on January 18, 2011

The Best Imitation of the Flash is Hal Morris.
posted by IvoShandor at 8:50 PM on January 18, 2011

Amended! Thanks.
posted by cortex at 9:10 AM on January 19, 2011

And okay fine here's a new Mulder's Big Adventure while we're at it.
posted by cortex at 8:49 PM on January 19, 2011