Future Candidates for the BCHOF

Hey guys, Drew back here. I haven't done much of this series at all lately, so I want to get discussion back up. There are many cards that need to make their way into our Baseball Card Hall of Fame, and here are a few that I think will at some point make it in:

1915 Cracker Jack Shoeless Joe Jackson


1916 Sporting News Babe Ruth Rookie Card


1955 Topps Sandy Koufax


1956 Topps Mickey Mantle


1980 Topps Rickey Henderson Rookie Card


1982 Topps Cal Ripken Jr. Rookie Card


1989 Fleer Bill Ripken F**K Face


1993 Topps Derek Jeter Rookie Card


1994 SP Alex Rodriguez Rookie Card


2001 Bowman Chrome Albert Pujols Rookie Autograph
(any parallel)

So, please comment on any card you would like to vote for, or if I left out the one you want go ahead and let me know through a comment and a vote will be cast for that card. It could be ANYTHING, so go ahead and pick a famous card to become the 8th member of the Baseball Card Hall of Fame.

Now, if one card in the comments gets 3 votes it will automatically be elected, but if we don't get enough votes, the ones that have the most votes will go onto a poll and you can vote there. Thanks and See Ya!

Awards Announced Live Tonight Starting @ 8:00!!!

Hey guys, Drew back here, the awards will be announced starting at 8:00 tonight on the blog. We haven't gotten any voters, and while talking to Beardy he says polls would be the best thing to do. Unfortunately there is barely any time left for this so we can not do polls. The voting period is not over yet, so I'll run a how to on voting one more time and hopefully everyone reading this gets their votes in. I may have been a little confusing but I've been so busy and this thing has been a lot of work, and I'm not sure if I'm going to do this next year. Anyway, here is a how to on voting:

HOW TO VOTE FOR
THE 2009 CARD AWARDS

Step 1: Go into your email and make a message out to my email "yanks1996wsc@gmail.com"

Step 2: Cast your vote by picking a winner in each of the following categories.

Blog of the Year:
- Wax Heaven
- Night Owl Cards
- Cardboard Junkie
- Stale Gum
- Beardy's Baseball Blog

Rookie Blog of the Year:
- Beardy's Baseball Blog
- The Mojo Hand
- The Priceless Pursuit
- Ryan's Memorabilia Blog
- The Collective Troll

Blog Trader of the Year:
- My Past Time... I Love It
- Ryan's Memorabilia Blog
- Beardy's Baseball Blog
- Play at the Plate
- Nachos Grande
- The Mojo Hand

Biggest Blog Box Breaker:
- I Am Joe Collector
- Stale Gum
- Wax Heaven
- Sports Cards Uncensored
- The Mojo Hand

Most Creative Blogger:
- Night Owl Cards
- Cardboard Junkie
- Dinged Corners
- Beardy's Baseball Blog
- The Collective Troll

Coolest Blog Design:
- drewscards
- Hey That's Mine
- Night Owl Cards
- Wax Heaven
- Condition:Poor

So, you should be emailing me your 6 votes, 1 for each of the 6 categories. The reason why I decided not to do polls were if let's say I didn't get a single vote for an award I would probably be upset. It's certainly not the end of the world, but it would kinda stink. So, please if you have not done this yet please vote, before 8:00 you partiers! I actually have my uncle and aunt and cousins coming for a few days, so I'm not sure if I'll have time to post the awards one at a time, so maybe at midnight I'll announce them all. We'll see. Happy New Year to all! See Ya!

Breaking News

Got almost no votes for them so the YouTube awards are cancelled, we're only doing blogs, athletes & sports, and products. More on that tomorrow, later.

More Votes! More Votes! More Votes!

You heard me another 15 votes would be beautiful. The awards are tomorrow night and the winners will all be announced. After that I have a ton to catch up on, like:

- My Awesome Box of Donruss Threads
- My Box of Topps Chrome Baseball
- My Box of 09 Piece of History
- Vintage Cards from Pop Popps
- Trifecta Stuff
- Packs from Christmas & Yanks cards from Dad
- Packs from the Card Shop Yesterday
- The guy who raided all the packs at Target
- The Blind Side Review
- Preparing for the January 16th White Plains card show!

Yeah, that's right, I would stay tuned! See Ya!

The nominees are here

Please email me your votes to yanks1996wsc@gmail.com

CMON GUYS!!!! I NEED MORE EMAILS, HELP A GUY OUT HERE!!! IF YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT THEN READ AN OLDER POST!!!

Wow... that was brutal

Hey guys, Drew back here, kinda really disappointed on the recent number of votes for the awards. 10 votes???? Seriously??? I've been working my tail off and I understand it's the holiday but I thought you check my blog 20 times a day, :). I just wish that you guys can vote out of your minds crazy in the remaining 4 short days until the awards. I need more people to send me their nominations for:

Blog of the Year
Rookie Blog of the Year
Blog Trader of the Year
Blog Box Breaker of the Year
Most Creative Blogger
Coolest Blog Design

The nominees for those awards can be found here, and my email is yanks1996wsc@gmail.com. IF YOU ARE READING THIS AND HAVEN'T VOTED YET, YOU ARE VOTING NOW!!!! Please! And for the polls.

Thanks,

Drew

Quick Awards Update

Hey guys Drew back here. Combined with the panel we got over 40 votes for each so that's good. 2 new polls are up, even if you sent me your nominees please vote on the polls. Baseball Product of the Year and Football Product of the Year. Panel members please do not vote on the poll as that will effect the results of the category. Email me your votes if you haven't already, got a ok amount so far but could use more.

Nominees can be found here

My email is yanks1996wsc@gmail.com

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!

Small Award Update

Hey guys, Drew back here, just a quick announcement on the polls. First off, we've gotten around 10 votes so far, including most of the panel, so not many others. Take the time out and please vote!!! About the polls, there will be 2 different polls that will run for 2 days until the 31st, so we are going to have polls for these. Anyone in the panel, please don't vote for the poll, since you are emailing me them. So, everyone not in the judges panel, you will vote for these in a poll:

Athlete of the Year/ Coach of the Year- December 21st-23rd
Baseball Product of the Year/ Football Product of the Year- 23rd-25th
Baseball Insert of the Year/ Football Insert of the Year- 25th-27th
Baseball Autographed Set of the Year/Football Autographed Insert Set of the Year 27th-29th
Sports Moment of the Year- 29th-31st

If you sent me your votes already, vote for the polls because I'm not counting your votes through email for those awards, although I am counting your YouTube/Blog voting, just do the poll.

And, for the people that haven't sent me an email yet, please pick winners for as many of these as you can:

Blog of the Year
Rookie Blog of the Year
Blog Trader of the Year
Blog Box Breaker of the Year
Most Creative Blogger
Coolest Blog Design

YouTuber of the Year
Rookie YouTuber of the Year
YouTube Trader of the Year
YouTube Box Breaker of the Year
Most Creative YouTuber
Coolest YouTube Channel

Nominees can be found here

Please email your votes to yanks1996wsc@gmail.com, and do the polls on the sidebar! See Ya!

Update on the Card Awards

Hey guys, Drew back here, nice to see some good feedback on the last few posts, now, there has been some chat going on lately between a bunch of us bloggaz, and we decided to make an ultimate blogging awards. Haven't heard back from the other commissioner of this thing, wicked ortega, but so far we've got a little panel and it's looking good so far. We do need a logo and other stuff to make this shin-dig big but this is the panel:
COMMISSIONERS:
- Wicked Ortega
- drewscards (Me)

CONFIRMED PANEL (including Wicked & I too):
- Beardy
- Priceless Pursuit
- Collective Troll
- Waxaholic
Mike Ryan (Ripken Pursuit) decided to step down yesterday, so Joe from the Priceless Pursuit joined! I've had some swirling thoughts about it lately, and I figured why not share them with you! So, I don't want any more than 30 awards, but 30 may work if all of us in the panel do 5 seperate awards on our respective blogs. My ideas on types of awards so far:

Product Awards:Company of the Year (Topps, Upper Deck, Panini, Razor, Tristar)
Baseball Product of the Year
Football Product of the semi-Year
Blog Awards:Blog of the Year
Rookie Blogger of the Year (started January 1 on)
Most Giving (as a trader)
Biggest Box Breaker
Most Creative
Coolest Blog Design
Most Giveaways
Sports Awards:Moment of the Year
Team of the Year
Athlete of the YearCoach of the Year

Lastly, wasn't sure if it would work or not (most of the panel doesn't like this idea), but I was thinking about Entertainment Awards, like CD of the year, Singer of the Year, Movie of the Year, TV Show of the Year, Actor/Actress of the Year, and Video Game of the Year. I sorta like the idea, mostly because I love that stuff, but not sure about you.

Also, voting has been brought up a good amount of times as well, and I wanted to let you know that voting goes like this:

- For Awards that don't involve any of you, polls will take place over all of the blogs
- For polls that involve you the bloggers and maybe readers, email me, wicked, Beardy, Pursuit, Canuck, or Troll with a nomination (for the panel, let us all know who voted so we can keep track)

Hopefully you guys follow me so far, be sure to see more of this on here soon,
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE COMMENT TO LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS!!!!!

See Ya!

PS somethings screwed up with the font size, please excuse me blowing your eyes out of your head while technical difficulties take place

Which do you like the most?

Yeah, I Know that we all hate sticker autographs. But which one do you think is the best or is the worst?

Topps: (if you haven't seen them before, on the top it says Topps Certified and on the bottom it says Autograph Issue. It's kinda hard to see it)

Upper Deck: (the sticker with nothing on it, but in the light it says Authentic Autographs with a logo with an a all over it, you can't see the logos in the picture)

Donruss: (You can't see anything here again, but in the light it says Authentic Autographs (i think) all over it in the background.)

In my opinion, I sort of don't mind the Topps on that specific Beam Team (from Stadium Club) Autograph. But they look real bad in other places like Topps Sterling, which I think should go to on-card autos. They aren't that bad on Triple Threads, but I could also name some products where the sticker design sucks in. With the Upper Deck, I hate those stickers. The card is a Fleer one, but hopefully you know that Upper Deck owns Fleer and Fleer is closing down. It is an auto of Kevin Kouzmanoff from Fleer Ultra SE 2007, and is numbered out of 199. Everything about the card is nice except the stupid looking sticker in the middle of it. At least make it look nice or something, but just a plain old sticker that should have no use in the fun of opening packs. In Upper Deck Baseball Heroes 2008, I can't describe it, just look at the picture below:

Do you notice the extension off the corners of the sticker? That is just ugly, and in this case when I can live with that sticker somewhat, that extension just ruins it. Finally Donruss, my favorite football company, has sub-par autograph stickers. The example I have is a Leaf Certified 2008 autograph, which as you hopefully know Donruss owns Leaf, and it of Jermichael Finley. The stickers I can live with, but I don't like them all that much.

So give me your opinion on what you think. This is my order: 1) Topps, 2) Donruss, and 3) Upper Deck. My love for Upper Deck is starting to fade away somehow. Have you seen the 5 products written about by Wax Heaven? Spectrum, SPX, X, Icons, and Piece of History (which I like a little), he says look terrible. I agree with the first 4. They look like something you could pull in a Yugioh pack. As the companys get more advanced with technology, like Toppstown, Upper Deck U, Upper Deck Kids.com, and Topps Attax, what ever happen to those great products. I think I'll stick to 07 and 08 products thank you very much. Thanks for viewing, and see ya!