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Sharing your mistakes with someone you love

  So, as I mentioned a few days ago, I opened a blaster of 2022 Chrome in Cooperstown last week. That five minutes in my hotel room was easily the low point of the entire trip -- well, maybe it was a little better than listening to three cronies talk loudly through my dinner Friday night. (Wife: Nothing can be that funny).   I wasn't going to write about it, but something happened in which the cards became quite useful.   My brother and sister-in-law visited a few days ago and my nephew came along. He's the one I've mentioned a couple of times as collecting baseball cards, which is an extreme rarity in this family.   Many years have passed since I first discovered he collected and there were signs that maybe he isn't anymore. But I took a shot since he was under my roof and asked if he still collected. He did. I asked the follow-up question that I never get to ask: "Want to see my card room?"   And so there we were, me and my 15-year-old nephew, already quite ...