In Search of Mags

I try to make Mother's Day an easy day for my wife.  I wake early with the little ones, make breakfast, and do a bunch of chores.  This morning I emptied out the dishwasher, filled it with a few things that did not fit in at the end of the night yesterday and then I put away laundry.  Wrangling a six year old who likes to read books is not a difficult task, but keeping an eye on a nine month old who furniture surfs, climbs stairs, and get her hands on anything she is not supposed to is a little bit more difficult.

Luckily I combined the laundry and care of the nine month old....

Littlest one was amused by being in a laundry basket and I had a few minutes to sit down to type a blog post after the house looked good.  I needed the extra time because I need to dig out a card for today's post.

A few years back, when I used to write a blog post almost everyday, I used to not even try to post all of the cards that came into my collection.  I stuck with the ones that were the most interesting at the time, so plenty of cards went straight into boxes without touching my scanner.

As it turns out, what was not interesting a few years back has suddenly become interesting during the past week all thanks to a bunch of Cardinals outfielders getting hurt and the team having to call up a speedy little outfielder all the way from A-Ball by the name of Magneuris Sierra.  Here is Mags in action last weekend against the Braves.....

The 2017 Cardinals are slow and sloppy on the bases.  Their defense causes fans to check their supply of antacids or alcohol or both.   Mags is the opposite of those things.  He can catch a fly ball and then the ball back into the infield.  He can run to a base without doing something really really stupid.  Although he got picked off right after he got his first hit.....Otherwise he hasn't done anything stupid on the bases.  

Anyway, I know I picked up a Mags auto a few years back and decided to wade through the autograph box to see if my memory served me right.  I broke out one of the autograph boxes.....

and started wading through a few hundred autographs of players with S last names.  There were plenty of scrubby Cardinals along the way....

like Kevin Siegrist.  I know people like him, I don't.  I also found a cool Kyle Skipworth card too.....

who is a former Greensboro Grasshopper and guy who was drafted way too high (6th overall) considering he's playing in Double A this year almost ten years after being picked.  Then I found it.....

I know I am not really big on the Panini cards, and it's a sticker autograph, but it's not like there is another Sierra autograph out there at the moment.  I was just happy that my memory was correct and I had one of these in the collection.  Especially since these have had one of those "This guy got called up and had a few hits, so I am going to pay a whole bunch of money for one" weeks since the Cardinals called him up.  There are a few other Mags cards in my collection beyond this autograph, but that's for another day.....

Chrome Siegrist Autograph

I have added a new Kevin Siegrist autograph to my collection for super cheap.  The Cardinals hard-throwing left handed reliever has a few autographs out there now, but this is the only one I have seen with his number signed on the card, which appears in small print in between the S and the T in his last name.  Siegrist has had a few injury problems this year and has missed a chunk of the season with forearm problems.  However, he's back in the bullpen and looks really sharp.  With the Cardinals back in first place and the end of the season approaching I am hoping to see another moment like this in the next week or two.....

"Something about him reminds me of Joe Magrane"

Is that Rickey Horton with the awesome comparison between hard throng Kevin Seigrist and the soft tossing Joe Magrane?

There are so many things wrong there, but it is a little too early in the morning.  

Siegrist is one of the many young hard throwing arms on the Cardinals pitching staff.  Like Magrane was throughout his career, Siegrist is currently on the disabled list.  Hopefully it will not be as bad as Magrane.  

Did you know that Joe Magrane had a certified autographed card?  It's true, it's in the 1996 Leaf Signature set.  I own one, but do you really want to see that card?  

Did you know that Kevin Siegrist also has one certified autographed card?  It's true, it's in the 2014 Topps Series 2 set.  You get a picture too.....

I dig Siegrist, so hopefully the injury thing is just a short minor set back on his way to being a long-time productive Major Leaguer for the Cardinals.  Also I am hoping that maybe Siegrist would consider signing for another card set.  Although this is a sticker autograph, so I am sure he will appear somewhere else really soon, unlike Joe Magrane.  Although he is on the MLB network, he's obnoxious.  Watch the highlights, mute Magrane.