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I love dusty chrome

This is not a post professing my love for an alt-rock chick named "Dusty," although if I ever create a comic book series, the heroine will be named "Dusty Chrome." No, this about my long-delayed discovery of cards at a drug store. Many, many, many months ago, I read about bloggers finding 2009 Topps Chrome for sale at Rite Aid. It made me positively giddy. First, you don't find cards at drug stores very often anymore. Secondly, there  actually is a Rite Aid in my outpost hell. Two of them in fact. However, I've reached the point in my life where my brain resists absorbing new information. It's a fun side effect of turning 40. I've rejected a great many new-fangled items that I have stumbled across in the last couple of years, just because my brain has turned its nose up at them. So months went by and I never even entered either Rite Aid store. Neither of them are conveniently located. One is way on the other side of town. The other has a ...

Awesome night card, pt. 52

I realize the Pirates don't have Jason Bay anymore. He was traded away in that three-team deal that brought a certain free spirit to the Dodgers last season. The Pirates also don't have Jack Wilson or Ian Snell anymore. They were shipped to the Mariners. They don't have Freddy Sanchez. He was sent to the Giants. They don't have Adam LaRoche or Nate McLouth . They're now Braves. They don't have Nyger Morgan. He's a National. They don't have Tom Gorzelanny . He's a Cub. They don't have Xavier Nady. He's a Yankee. Sort of. You know who else the Pirates don't have anymore? Sean Casey. Jason Kendall. Ty Wigginton . Kris Benson. Aramis Ramirez. Brian Giles. Matt Stairs. Jeff Suppan . Bronson Arroyo. Jose Guillen . A few other guys they don't have anymore: Jay Bell. Denny Neagle . Jeff King. Andy Van Slyke . Doug Drabek . Barry Bonds. Tim Wakefield. Randy Tomlin. Bobby Bonilla . John Smiley. Sid Bream. Johnny Ray. Tony Pena. Bill Madlock...