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Thread Title: T.S. O'Connell = Get a New Day Job
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Mintacular
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Is it any wonder that our hobby loses ground each year when people like T.S. O'connell represent the face of our hobby?

I mean I don't think this guy passed 9th grade English & there has got to be someone more interesting than him to discuss hobby topics. Another Crappy Editorial

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<< Get a New Day Job >>



This from the unemployed guy.

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He has probably forgot more about the Card business/Hobby then you will ever know

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I may have to reconsider my feelings since I tend to agree with Mintacular.
He may have forgotten more then I have ever known about cards but under his leadership SCD has become worthless and a place for con artists to pass off fake autographs. I bet the real autograph dealers that advertise love seeing fakes sold to unsuspecting buyers via auctions in the same issue.

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I agree SCD is now a piece of crap, but it was going that direction prior to him taking over. I think someone else started the down fall but can remember the name.

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My issue with TS is that he's made a career out of special interests and MLB/MLBPA circumvention. Too many double standards.

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<< My issue with TS is that he's made a career out of special interests and MLB/MLBPA circumvention. Too many double standards. >>



along those lines, why does PSA grade his "cards" and refuse to grade Broders?

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Edited: Sunday January 10, 2010 at 11:06 AM by Archaninator

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Hooray. A whole magazine devoted to ersatz autographs.

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Some of you need to get a clue on how a periodical, especially a hobby periodical, works.

T.S. is not "in charge" of SCD. He is the editor, responsible for filling the editorial pages and creating daily content for his blog (you try coming up with something about which to blog nearly every day). He reports to a publisher, who reports to a group publisher, who reports to a division boss, etc., etc. He has ABSOLUTELY NO SAY in who advertises in the publication. Those who suggest that he should be writing exposes about Coaches Corner are blissfully ignorant of the fact that those higher up on the food chain would never allow such an article to see print.

BoB, Regarding the 1980s O'connell & Son Ink collectors' issues, they were done at a time when neither MLB nor the players' union seemed too concerned about its property rights. In the early 1990s, after being contacted by the licensors, T.S. signed a formal agreement with them that granted his issues a sort of after-the-fact legitimacy in exchange for his ceasing his operations. Because of this quasi-legitimate status, his collectors' issues were listed in the Standard Catalog and are thus viewed by the TPGs as worthy of being graded.

And, just to be clear, my name is Bob Lemke and I'm the guy who hired T.S., and who made the decision to include his cards in the SCBC.

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<< He is the editor, responsible for filling the editorial pages and creating daily content for his blog (you try coming up with something about which to blog nearly every day). >>


I could come up with better stuff every day--the hobby needs a fresh voice/jolt or it will fade to black.



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<<

<< He is the editor, responsible for filling the editorial pages and creating daily content for his blog (you try coming up with something about which to blog nearly every day). >>


I could come up with better stuff every day--the hobby needs a fresh voice/jolt or it will fade to black. >>


can you come up with better stuff every day on a blog somewhere else?

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Yes. I could easily write one good editorial a day.

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Mint - Maybe you should start a daily blog at wordpress.com. Then you can rant over anything you want, and your free to use any language you desire. Im not gonna lie, id probably check it every few days just to see what kind of crap you can come up with

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Thanks for the advice but I'd rather bug people over here

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<< Yes. I could easily write one good editorial a day. >>



Sounds easy 'til you try it. You can probably rattle off 6 or 8 topics to keep you going for the first week or so, but it gets tougher in weeks 2 and 3. Give it a shot, Mintacular. It's easy to get going in blogspot, too: just go to www.blogger.com and pick the big orange button.

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I mean that is his JOB. If you are living, breathing, eating "collectibles" for a living you should be able to come up with about a gazillion things to talk about. And if you don't, then why doesn't SGC just have him write once a week rather than bore us to hell with 6/7 of his articles. Just post the one good one he does.

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<<

<< Yes. I could easily write one good editorial a day. >>



Sounds easy 'til you try it. You can probably rattle off 6 or 8 topics to keep you going for the first week or so, but it gets tougher in weeks 2 and 3. Give it a shot, Mintacular. It's easy to get going in blogspot, too: just go to www.blogger.com and pick the big orange button. >>



I agree, give it a shot. As you say, how hard can it be. Besides, after Thursday night, you'll have even more free time on your hands since hockey season will be over.

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Why would you tune out of the Stanley Cup Finals on TH night when it will be notched up 2-2? Now that Detroit has used up its lucky bounces the series

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<< Some of you need to get a clue on how a periodical, especially a hobby periodical, works.

BoB, Regarding the 1980s O'connell & Son Ink collectors' issues, they were done at a time when neither MLB nor the players' union seemed too concerned about its property rights. In the early 1990s, after being contacted by the licensors, T.S. signed a formal agreement with them that granted his issues a sort of after-the-fact legitimacy in exchange for his ceasing his operations. Because of this quasi-legitimate status, his collectors' issues were listed in the Standard Catalog and are thus viewed by the TPGs as worthy of being graded.

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Bob:

Do you happen to know if MLB offerred Rob Broder the opportunity to sign a similar agreement?

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