What were you wrong about?
frankhardy
Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭✭✭
There have been instances where I have been wrong. Of course, those instances are very few and far between, but it does happen. What were you wrong about when it comes to sports or sports cards?
I was wrong about Vince Coleman breaking Lou Brock's stolen base record.
I was wrong about Mark McGwire being clean (though I am right about Pujols
).
I was wrong about Ron Mercer being a star in the NBA.
I was wrong about thinking that my late 80's and 90's card collection would be "worth something someday". (didn't we all think that?)
I was wrong about thinking that the WNBA wouldn't last 2 years.
I was wrong about Michael Jordan being a nice, humble guy.
I was wrong when I was about 13 for trading a 1960 and 1961 Topps Mantle for a bunch of modern (late 80's) junk.
I'm sure I can think of one or two more.
I was wrong about Vince Coleman breaking Lou Brock's stolen base record.
I was wrong about Mark McGwire being clean (though I am right about Pujols
).I was wrong about Ron Mercer being a star in the NBA.
I was wrong about thinking that my late 80's and 90's card collection would be "worth something someday". (didn't we all think that?)
I was wrong about thinking that the WNBA wouldn't last 2 years.
I was wrong about Michael Jordan being a nice, humble guy.
I was wrong when I was about 13 for trading a 1960 and 1961 Topps Mantle for a bunch of modern (late 80's) junk.
I'm sure I can think of one or two more.
Shane
0
Comments
I was wrong about thinking Dwight Gooden was going to be the best pitcher in the modern era
I was wrong about trading my late 50's baseball and football HOF'ers from 1975 Topps cards
I was wrong about 1980's cards in general....
And the season before that...
And the season before that...
And the season before that...
And many, many other things.
the jury is still out on that one. let's just say innocent until proven guilty.
for me i was wrong
that 1990 upper deck french hockey would be a great investment
the stock market still had room to fall in march 2009
some rookie senator whose only experience in life was being a community activist could knock off the clinton machine in the 2008 democratic primaries/caucauses
people will stop going to movies starring will ferrell or steve carrell
rachel maddow's gender. i thought rachel was a man for many years. my bad
brett favre has some class
<< <i>I was wrong in 1983 about getting rich off my Wade Boggs cards >>
I imagine his cards are 2000x now what they were in '83. He's no Ron Kittle (who was a $5-10 RC at the time).
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
<< <i>
<< <i>I was wrong in 1983 about getting rich off my Wade Boggs cards >>
I imagine his cards are 2000x now what they were in '83. He's no Ron Kittle (who was a $5-10 RC at the time). >>
I think I paid $1-2 a pop during the 1983 season for about 50 of his cards. They were priced slightly below Sandberg and slightly above Willie McGee.
<< <i>
<< <i>
<< <i>I was wrong in 1983 about getting rich off my Wade Boggs cards >>
I imagine his cards are 2000x now what they were in '83. He's no Ron Kittle (who was a $5-10 RC at the time). >>
I think I paid $1-2 a pop during the 1983 season for about 50 of his cards. They were priced slightly below Sandberg and slightly above Willie McGee. >>
Alright....1500x. That's pretty good.
Edit to add I was thinkiing % above, as I usually do in turns of value change.
Maybe not so interesting to anyone, McGee sold for more then Boggs here in Kansas...but we are pretty close to St. Louis.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
<< <i>I was wrong about my Chargers winning the Super Bowl last season.
And the season before that...
And the season before that...
And the season before that...
And many, many other things. >>
Me Too!!!!!
Steve
1. Back in the 80s, while I was doing some local card shows, another seller tried to sell me his JUNK WAX every week. I think he was getting $12 - $15 per box and he offered me all his JUNK for $10.00 per box. He HAD to have 10+ cases of this crap. But I was no fool ... NO WAY was he going to sucker ME into paying TEN BUCKS per wax box of 1986 Fleer Basketball Cards!!!!!
2. Because of all the money I saved from NOT buying the above JUNK, I proceeded to buy about ten cases of 1988 Donruss and Fleer baseball products. BOY, they eventually made some great firewood!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
i was wrong about jose canseco....even though he still is a jerk
Steve
When Coleman was at his best it was wild. The whole stadium and everyone, pitcher, dugouts, everyone would be watching him. Waiting for him to move....there was just no way to stop the guy. But Coleman just being on base had to help the couple guys behind because it was SO distracting. Almost a take a breath....Coleman is on base. (Or maybe it is just that I was around 12 in '86).
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
I was wrong about the whole 1988ish -1990ish sportscard collecting thing.
I was right about trading my entire binder of 1989-1990 football rookie cards for 1- 1986 Jerry Rice Rookie. (It was a tought trade for me then, one that I thought I woulg regret later)
Just the opposite. LOL
<< <i>My coins collected as a kid would be worth way more money than my cards in the future.
Just the opposite. LOL >>
Heck, I even thought my postage stamp collection would be worth more than the cards. LOL
<< <i>"Two wrongs don't make a right" - Well, it just so happens that two wrongs do make a right. Not only that, but as the number of wrongs increases, the whole thing goes up exponentially. So that while two wrongs make one right, and four wrongs make two rights, it actually takes sixteen wrongs to make three rights, and 256 wrongs to make four rights. It seems to me that anyone who is stringing together 256 wrongs needs counseling, not mathematics. >>
And four rights puts you right back where you started from . . .
I was wrong about buying every rookie card of Travis Henry...
I was wrong about cornering the market on Steve Avery rookie cards....
References:
Onlychild, Ahmanfan, fabfrank, wufdude, jradke, Reese, Jasp, thenavarro
E-Bay id: greg_n_meg
~WalterSobchak
2. Thinking that 1989 Bowman cards would be more valuable than other issues in the future because the irregular size would be so irritating to collectors that few would bother with them, thus making them scarce, thus making them valuable.
-CDs Nuts, 1/20/14
*1956 Topps baseball- 97.4% complete, 7.24 GPA
*Clemente basic set: 85.0% complete, 7.89 GPA
I was especially wrong for setting up at a show that had both Willie Stargell and Kirby Puckett as autograph guests, getting several items signed by each, and not getting a Stargell rookie or Puckett Fleer Update rookie signed. Both those cards have been VERY elusive for me to find now.
Mike
Definitely wrong about that.
Oh, and Kevin Maas. Always Kevin Maas.
Or Regional Canadian Baseball Issues?
Come be a contributor to the OPC Baseball Wiki. It's free and easy!
OPeeChee.Wikispaces.Com
Eddy Curry
Darius Miles
I bought ProSet instead of Score football in 89.
I'm generally an idiot.
Unique Chicago Cards
Wrestling Cards
<< <i>I was especially wrong for setting up at a show that had both Willie Stargell and Kirby Puckett as autograph guests, getting several items signed by each, and not getting a Stargell rookie or Puckett Fleer Update rookie signed. Both those cards have been VERY elusive for me to find now. Mike >>
Back in the 80'smost people would get the SECOND year card autographed, because we thought a rookie card would be LESS valuable if you had a signature on it!!!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
1987 Donruss David Cone--paid like $9 each for PSA 9s
1988 Topps Traded Jim Abbott--paid $7 each for raw
1988 Fleer Tom Glavine--paid $5 each for raw
1987 Donruss Barry Bonds--paid $4 each for raw
1983 Topps Wade Boggs--paid $50 each for PSA 9s
......
I bought bunches of those cards, which makes it all the more painful. Now, I still collect 80s star cards, but I no longer try to corner the market on any of them. 2 examples of each card are more than enough (I go for one graded and one raw in my collection).
BST: Tennessebanker, Downtown1974, LarkinCollector, nendee
But then again, I was still a pre-teen and not yet any judge of talent or value.
I was wrong to hold onto the crap in the mid 80's to the early 90's.
According to me:
Dallas McPherson would be the 2005 Rookie of the Year.
I'm sure there are many others, but that's all I can think of now.
Rick
2.I was wrong when my cousin mentioned his company was working on a new music player that would change the way we listen to it..I laughed...after all..what could be better than a CD player?
3.Did I mention my cousin worked for Apple and gave me the advice in #1?
4.I was wrong about gold being overvalued at $400 an ounce.
5.I was wrong in 2007 when my mother recommended I invest $10,000 in her company at $8 per share....it's pushing $40
However, I was right when I felt the .com boom was ridiculous.....and real estate was overvalued.....
Follow on Twitter
.....then someone told me about "the Fritsch hoard".
i figured i could just drink my way straight through until i turned twenty-two.
boy, was i wrong.
...turns out I wasn't wrong afterall.
<< <i>"I was wrong about Vince Coleman breaking Lou Brock's stolen base record."
When Coleman was at his best it was wild. The whole stadium and everyone, pitcher, dugouts, everyone would be watching him. Waiting for him to move....there was just no way to stop the guy. But Coleman just being on base had to help the couple guys behind because it was SO distracting. Almost a take a breath....Coleman is on base. (Or maybe it is just that I was around 12 in '86). >>
I loved to watch those guys do the double steal. I think Coleman always had a green light to steal second, and I wonder if he also had a continuous green light to steel third.
>
Successful transactions on the BST boards with rtimmer, coincoins, gerard, tincup, tjm965, MMR, mission16, dirtygoldman, AUandAG, deadmunny, thedutymon, leadoff4, Kid4HOF03, BRI2327, colebear, mcholke, rpcolettrane, rockdjrw, publius, quik, kalinefan, Allen, JackWESQ, CON40, Griffeyfan2430, blue227, Tiggs2012, ndleo, CDsNuts, ve3rules, doh, MurphDawg, tennessebanker, and gene1978.