(12-21-2011, 07:09 PM)petesahuttt Wrote: How I'd love to have 4 major card companies pumping out 30 releases a year again. Great insert sets, super-tough parallels, game-used cards extremely rare, auto's one per case.....
Even if we have to deal with one major company, can't they see how that era has produced some of the most desirable cards in the last 20 years?
They needn't spend millions on fake memorabilia and authentic autos....just give us a nice design, cool inserts and some rare parallels.
Oh, and stop serial #'ing everything. Give us a print run (like A&G NNO's) and leave it at that (you can replace the damaged ones much easier that way BTW)
Just my rant from reading all the recent box breaks where guys are spending hundreds on a box and getting Chris Coghlan and Drew Storen autos as their guaranteed hits and mem. cards that are vaguely worded as not being from any event, game, season (and next year they will add the word sport)
Simple is as simple does.....
its simply no longer possible for the manufacturers to continue what they used to do in the'90s...and I'm not sure they were able to afford it then, and there are far fewer collectors now. I'd also add that few people would truly appreciate a hobby that consistently was the way it was in the '90s...it was taken for granted then and would be taken for granted today in short order.
It also seems most hobbyists today are more interested in selling than collecting anyway...are aesthetics really that important to them??
I greatly prefer many aspects of pre '90s cards - a simple hobby with just three or four sets where there was greater hobby community because everyone understood everyone else's hobby niche. This is in contrast to today's hobby where the best players have a crazy 500-2000 unique cards produced of them *each* and *every* year.
Bowman: home of the pre-rookie card.