Congratulations to the St. Louis Cardinals. They defied all odds and won the World Series despite not having probably even a top 5 team in the major leagues in my opinion. They got hot and caught all the breaks for a while and did something amazing. David Freese was amazing and took the MVP award. I just hope all the praise for Albert Pujols and his performance takes into consideration that he had hits in just 2 of 7 World Series games. He doesn’t even deserve a mention as World Series MVP. You know who does? The Game 6 rain out. Without it the Cardinals DO NOT win the World Series.
Archive for the ‘Just Fair ’11’ Category
Just Fair 2011: David Freese Custom Card Leave a comment
Just Fair 2011: Evan Longoria 3 comments
It turns out that Longoria’s extra innings home run was just fair so this seems appropriate. What a great moment. It was the perfect end to probably the best night of baseball I will ever see in my life.
2011 Just Fair: Brian Bogusevic and Guillermo Moscoso Leave a comment
2011 Just Fair: Derrek Lee 3 comments
Derrek Lee got traded at the trade deadline this year. He went to the Cinderella Pittsburgh Pirates and played his first game on August 1st. He promptly hit 2 home runs in his first game with his new team. Even though the game was a loss to the Cubs Lee created a folk hero out of himself right away with the team. It probably won’t happen but I really want this team to make the playoffs and Derrik Lee will have to be a huge part of that.
2011 Just Fair: Ervin Santana Leave a comment
My Just Fair card series comes back to honor Ervin Santana who threw a no-hitter today against the Cleveland Indians. Another Angels pitcher who can be dominant. This team could be really dangerous in the playoffs.
2011 Just Fair: Prince Fielder Leave a comment
It’s been way too long since I posted a “Just Fair” card. I chose Prince Fielder because I am locking him in as my winner in tonight’s home run derby. I’m thinking he’ll end up beating Robinson Cano in the finals and end up with about 26 home runs.
I will post another Just Fair card with my All-Star MVP pick tomorrow. Any guesses at the derby or All-Star MVP?
Just Fair 2011: Johnny Cueto and Justin Verlander Leave a comment
So it has been a long while since I posted some new Just Fair cards. I chose a couple pitchers at random today, no real reason for them in particular. My last Just Fair post was over two weeks ago. So if you had 85 cards in the pool of when I would get tired of the cards you have won. With this addition I have 87 cards in the set. My goal was to have a big set by the end of the season, obviously that isn’t going to happen. I will try to keep going with them to give my site so diversity from being an all Royals site be I really don’t know how many more I will do. I have other projects that interest me a lot more right now.
Custom Card of the Day: 1985 Topps Josh Hamilton, Just Fair Josh Hamilton 7 comments
Josh Hamilton is back! This guy really changes the way the Rangers lineup looks. I saw the Ranger play in Kansas City a couple weeks ago and both Hamilton and Cruz were hurt and their lineup was not near as scary. Both are back now and Hamilton will try to drive toward another MVP season. He has won one MVP even after being injured a month, why not do it again? He can flat out hit, he is at .339 in a small sampling of games but who know what he can do playing at the Ballpark at Arlington.
I wanted to do something different today so I went with a custom card of Hamilton and one of my Just Fair cards of Hamilton. Ironically both have black borders, not planned I promise. The custom card is not only an old design, it is a football design. This was 1985 Topps’ version of a football set. I posted a bunch of Kansas City Chiefs from this set a while back. I think it is interesting seeing the Rangers in both their blued and red uniforms side by side, they look like completely different teams.
2011 Just Fair: Buster Posey, Wilson Valdez and Ricky Romero Leave a comment
A lot of Royals stuff lately so it is time for a couple Just Fair cards to make an appearance. Here are a couple guys whose names have popped up in the sports section this week. Buster Posey got hurt in a home plate collision and may be done for the year. I chose to display him in a picture other than the collision. Wilson Valdez was the first position player to get a pitching win in a game in something like 20 years. I also chose him to not be pitching, maybe decisions like this will lead to this set having a little more of a timeless quality, probably not. One interesting thing is that this set has 2 Philadelphia Phillies second basemen in it and neither one of them is named Chase Utley. Ricky Romero is include by chance. Blue Jays get no love, they are in last but are just a couple games under .500.
2011 Just Fair: Mark Ellis, Tyler Chatwood and Juan Miranda Leave a comment
A Hair Off Square 