Shoulda been Sundays - Card #3

Since I am still on vacation, this week's shoulda-been card is one from the vault.

1982 Kellogg's 3-D Cal Ripken:

Rest in Peace, Scott.

I was lucky enough to have met Scott Zensen last year. Sadly, Scott passed away unexpectedly yesterday.


Scott meant so much to the San Diego music scene. He was an avid photographer, tremendous fan of the scene, and published My Week in Music. What began as a myspace blog, turned into an amazing online chronicle of San Diego music. I hope someone can carry on his work. Since he took most of it on by himself, sadly, I find it unlikely that dozens of people working together full-time could keep it going.

I am thankful that I knew Scott Zensen.

I made this card a couple of months ago. It is one of my favorites. I don't know if he ever saw it. The Post cereal cards from the early 60's are some of my favorites. Scott was one of my favorites.

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42...

I am thankful to be with my family this Thanksgiving. Spending a week away from the office is a blessing as well. I am usually grateful for mass quantities of food. Unfortunately, I started a diet a couple weeks ago. Turkey day will be a test of my will power.

My strategy for cutting back on Thanksgiving is to adopt the losing game plan of many teams. I will look past this week's opponent. Not unlike what the Chargers have done for the first 13 weeks, I will simply look beyond my adversary. It won't be that hard. Thanksgiving is nothing compared to the biggest danger to my belly...

No, not christmas cookies... Not boozin' it up on New Year's Eve... I need to be very careful of the enemy that arrives in 57 days...

LOST is coming back in 57 days! I just wanna be like Hurley! I may have misled you when I said that my two passions were baseball cards and music. Those two should only be classified as hobbies. LOST is my passion. If it seems strange to you that someone might be passionate about a TV show... you have never seen this show.

December 9th through December 11th there will be no posts due to a pending illness.

Shoulda been Sundays - Card #2

We received quite a few requests for "shoulda-beens" this week. I have quite a few ready to roll, but this post is titled "Shoulda been Sundays - Card #2" not "Cards #2-14".

This request was one of many Dodgers (yecch!) from the good folks at the garveyceyrusselllopes blog (gcrl for short.) I presented all of the cards that I had finished to our editorial department; she chose this one. So, in the spirit of National League West unity, I present to you the 1970 Topps Don Drysdale:

This photo was, once again, brazenly stolen from Steve's Baseball Photography Pages.

Keep sending those requests in to punkrockpaint@gmail.com. PunkRockPaint will be in the Pacific Northwest this week to celebrate Thanksgiving with family. If we get the chance to hop down to Portland from Seattle, we hope to bow at the alter of Padrographs.

I would like to thank everyone that has sent packages o' Padres my way in the last couple of weeks. Parcels shipped yesterday to Thoughts and Sox, The Nennth Inning, Dinged Corners, Indians Baseball Cards... and then some, Thorzul Will Rule, and Eric Slette.

I still owe a HUGE debt to John in the UK and Rod in Portlandtown, Oregon.

PS- If anyone comes across a color photo of Juan Marichal in a Dodgers uni... let me know.

Field Trip...

If you are ever in Illinois, do yourself a favor and visit Uglee, Inc.

I have always been a big fan of their work.

For my friends at Dinged Corners...

It is good to know that Lucy could grow up to be anything she wants to be...

Shoulda been Sundays - Card #1

First card for a new series - 1977 Topps Hank Aaron:

Photo borrowed from Steve's Baseball Photography Pages (Awesome!)

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