(Welcome back. I've just been informed that today is Blame Someone Else Day . That's right, social media, you've got just ONE DAY to blame someone else. Not 365. It's time for Cardboard Appreciation, this is the 256th in series): OK, now that everyone has dug out their Eric Thames cards, have you done the same for Gift Ngoepe? When I heard a couple of weeks ago that the Pirates were calling up Ngoepe, thereby making the South African-born player the first African to play in the major leagues, it made me even happier than the re-emergence of Thames. Yeah, sure, there's the whole thing about MLB conquering another continent and "growing the game" and all that, but the big news is that my World Baseball cards from several years ago now had meaning! I don't follow the World Baseball Classic. I know that makes me shallow and narrow-minded and a social outcast. But I have all I can do to keep up with baseball happening here. Don't make me feel...
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