#poor card

[patchy-patchy]

Riku: You’ve gone & grown smaller.

Card: ..G-Gramps, you got it all wrong. You’re supposed to say “How big you’ve grown lately-”

Riku: But why would I say something so clearly untrue?

[patchy-patchy]

Card: T-This is why I left Tokyo!!

[thecontinuouscardboardfire]

Rumors of the Continuous Cardboard Fire's demise have been greatly (or not at all) exaggerated.  Lack of regular computer access and the opportunity to set these scourges of the hobby aflame have left me two weeks behind.  I shall now throw these excuses into the fire with the next card.  Bobby Abreu has had a bit of a career resurgence this year with my favorite baseball team the LA Dodgers.  He hit his first home run the other day and is hitting over .300 on the season.  Not great but for a player who was deemed less than dead weight, I'll take it.  This next card is less about current Bobby and more about early career Bobby before anyone gave a shit about him.  Left unprotected in the D-Rays/D-Backs expansion draft by the Astros, Bobby got snapped up by Tampa.  Tampa then flipped him to Philadelphia, where he would go on to make two All-Star teams and be the Phillies MVP three separate times.  What did the hapless Devil Rays (fuckin' TAMPA!) get in return?  The 1996 Score of Kevin Stocker.  In retrospect, they probably would have just wanted the card over the player.  Or at least a piece of the Smoothie shop he owns now.  Mmmmm, smoothies.

[lulawiththesnakes]

I hate it when omnivores use the "poor card"...

I mean, poor people are already, at the very least, vegetarian. Meat and dairy are expensive as hell when compared with vegetables, cereals and fruits. Eggs are much more affordable.

At least, that's the way it is where I live.