Monday, February 24, 2014

Hello!!!!! Is there anybody out there????
It is your long lost pal the Troll...
Where have I been? My goodness, that is a LONG story. It is one that I would like to tell, though...
Am I back? I can't make any promises, but I LOVE the game of baseball, I LOVE my team, the Rays, I LOVE the hobby of card collecting and I truly LOVE this community - the card collecting Blog-O-Sphere...
I sure want to be back. I intend to be back. I know I have said this before only to disappear for months and months and years and more months. I REALLY don't wanna let that happen again. I am alive and kicking and intend to be kicking it at Tropicana Field all summer long... I intend to trade my dupes and build my sets and I intend to rip the heck of 2014 Topps Heritage - I have been WAITING for this design!
I will say that I spent this past Saturday at Tampa Bay Rays Fan Fest at Tropicana Field... I met many fellow Rays fans and I am PSYCHED for everything baseball.
My local card shop has closed, so my card purchases have entailed road trips and eBaying... Eh, card collecting is card collecting no matter where you get em, right?
I am babbling, but that is because there are SO MANY things I wanna talk/write about... I don't have any local/in-person pals who collect, so I have had a lot bottled up for a long time and I am ready to spill over talking about my cards, my goals, my autographs and my growing bat collection... Oh yeah my fingers are tingling at the thought of a monster rambling, run on post...
I don't know where to begin, but I hope to figure it out soon. I might start by updating my haves/needs pages and go from there...
Deep breath. Aaahh... I know it ain't much,  but it just felt right clicking on "new post". Gonna feel even better hitting "publish". I hope y'all will see me soon... Oh, I should warn you that I am proclaiming myself a Desmond Jennings Super Collector and I am doing my best to be his number one stalker/fan... Oh, by the way, that IS the turf at the Trop in the background of the header photo - centerfield!
GO RAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on Opening Day 2014!!!!!
COLLECT!!!!
troll out.

11 comments:

  1. It's about damn time!!! Glad to have you back!!

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  2. Good to see the Troll in the blogroll again!

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  3. Will spring spring? Will the troll rule? We eager await the answer ...

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  4. Troll...good to see you crawl out from under the bridge. I'm ready to pay my toll!

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  5. Welcome Back! looking fwd to spring and some TrollBlogging!

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  6. Always good to hear from you Marck!!

    A have a request for you. Last year the Pirates had a team issue spring training Bill Virdon postcard. If they happen to do a team issue Virdon card/postcard again this year can you snag one for me?

    I'm not sure how they distributed it last year. I figure it was either a game day handout or a program insert.

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  7. Glad to hear from you !!
    I have lots of Rays cards to get rid of.

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