We can be singleminded where this particular baseball player is concerned. Our kid likes him best. In an unusual bout of reasonableness, we're willing to hear what YOUR favorite 2008 Stadium Club card is, but the argument you make for your choice must be convincing.
Leave your comment; we'll post pictures of your choices, along with your argument, and hold the whole matter up for a vote. We are willing to go into rhetorical combat. Here's our reasoning:
Why this is the best 2008 Stadium Club cardDirt is flying.The runner is wearing the narrow almost-elbowband thingy.
The runner is holding his gloves in an intriguingly girly way. But there don't appear to be any women in the stands. What's going on here?
There is a green strip of grass, a brown strip of dirt, a turquoise strip of nameband, and a brighter green strip of grass. This is a layered card. It is a stack of visual pancakes.
David Wright is wearing high stockings and a pink undershirt. He is kind of squatting. And yet his manly awesomeness still manages to loom over the universe.
David Wright, tongue sticking out in a way that makes us concerned he might bite it off, looks completely earnest, which as we have proven before, is his second most common facial expression after worried.
Bwahahaha! Our 2008 Stadium Club card debating club victory is imminent! unless yours is better
8 comments:
Elliott Johnson card #129a
I don't know if Elliott Johnson will ever be an everyday starter for the Rays, but the grit and determination shown in card 129a as Johnson plows over a catcher in a spring training game demonstrates a love and respect for the game.
#6: Curtis is on the run. His pants are already dirty, despite clearly being on first base. It is cold outside, and only the most hard-core fans have stuck around on this cold Michigan spring evening. Curtis has used his telepathic powers to fool the first baseman into going in the opposite correction of him. The two have created a visual chalice—Da Vinci Code style—a fact that did not go unnoticed by the photographer who wished to convey the religious-like power that Granderson embodies. His fingers are taped, his socks are up and his neck is weighed down by magic titanium power necklaces, as if to say not even broken fingers, extra weight and good style can stop me from taking third base before the ball gets out of the infield. The background exudes vintage baseball stadiums, three different shades of green, with a bright yellow line that makes you wonder why oh why replay was ever needed.
Curtis’ eyes are on the prize. He is already looking at the third base coach despite barely being past the first baseman. He is going to score. He knows it. You know it. The kid in the red with his arms up knows it—and he hasn’t even gotten to second yet.
I like the Joba Chamberlain card with him blocking the plate.
It's a great angle and shows a pitcher doing more than his typical routine.
Plus, Joba just looks like he's ready to sack someone.
And it's a Yankee.
Your post inspired me to expand this idea into a full blog entry. I'll have it up later today.
The best is #5 Russ Martin.
The reasons:
1. Martin is the king of great 2008 cards (post upcoming on Night Owl Cards!). He cannot have a card that is anything less than excellent. He's incapable of it.
2. It's a play at the plate, the most dramatic play in all of baseball.
3. The ball is IN HIS GLOVE after what appears to be quite the nasty collision. And the runner, Xavier Nady, has gotten the worst of it, as he lies crumpled on the ground sans helmet (which Russell kneels over).
4. Look at the concentration on Martin's face. He is practically willing the ball to stay in his glove with his eyes, while keeping his right hand out to steady himself and/or to keep the ball in the glove.
5. The overhead angle of this is just fantastic.
6. Cards in which the entire background is dirt ROCK.
(full disclosure: This photo is also on the Topps Chrome card).
#51 Ichiro
Flying through the air... about to splat into the wall... and you KNOW he caught it.
let's just say i agree with night owl.
Sports legends tony Esposito CRD# 126
!st you only thought it was esposito and that's what he wants you to think yes that's right It'S JASON! Happy holoween can't you see hom staring at you straight through the card ass if he's going to climb out of it nitice he's walking VERY slowly towards you you can run but he'll catch you in a slow deaedly waalk! See the hockey stick? IT's pure knifeblade titanium killing mackine. Note no fans are alive in the background except for the one guy on the back of the card rreaching out screaming for help last but not least note the Bloody Blurred jersey this is not Dunruss LLP covering a logo IT'S GUTS! please look at this card I'm sure you will agree it's a nightmare and that Iv'e lost my mind as well. Grant
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