tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post3413310142955215406..comments2024-03-04T07:33:09.398-05:00Comments on The Phillies Room: 1997 Collector's Choice #417 Mark LeiterJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06161762602291616465noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post-258223312167477562013-09-27T16:37:20.455-04:002013-09-27T16:37:20.455-04:00Ha! Good point. Well, him and his mother, I imag...Ha! Good point. Well, him and his mother, I imagine.Steve F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00753488569249068229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post-72692822001989093422013-09-27T15:28:52.372-04:002013-09-27T15:28:52.372-04:00You've got to be the only person in the world ...You've got to be the only person in the world with a Sanches jersey, period. Other than Sanches himself.<br /><br />; )Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06161762602291616465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post-87837148691415043342013-09-26T12:34:43.278-04:002013-09-26T12:34:43.278-04:00Last week (I think Sept. 17 against the Marlins) I...Last week (I think Sept. 17 against the Marlins) I bought a $6 ticket off StubHub but, for the first time in my life, left without watching a pitch. I found out that they were giving away Hamels bobbleheads with the purchase of a yearbook and I just wanted to land them for my kids since we had missed that game. Unbeknownst to me, the scorecard vendor outside the stadium also has that deal going, so I could have saved $6. Note to self for next year.<br /><br />Anyway, it gave me the opportunity to stop in the Majestic store one last time, where I picked up a Michael Young #10 home jersey for $57.25 (75% off) and a "Baseballtown" Reading Phillies alternate jersey (no name or number) for $20, down from $79.99 but perhaps still overpriced. I noticed when I looked at it at home that it's, well, kind of ugly. Also, I used my 25% discount at the Authentics stand and bought...drumroll please...a "game-issued" alternate home helmet for $57 and a 2012 game-issued 1991-style throwback #48 jersey of Brian Sanches for $75. In retrospect, I wish I had bought Hector Luna's #29 because Kruk wore that number, and if I could have found a way to get that nameplate off of there and find a Kruk one, it would have been a good deal. (Kruk, though, wore #28 in 1991 and then traded it to Mitch Williams in 1992 for 2 cases of beer; but no one's gonna notice the incongruity, really.) So I spent a little more than I wanted to, but it was on a few nice deals--a bit of a silver lining on this awful season.<br /><br />If I can get that helmet autographed by someone good at the ALS Carnival next year I will, but until that happens, I will wear it when playing ball in the yard with the kids. (It's a righty helmet, so that limits who I should get it signed by...not Rollins, Utley or Howard. maybe Chooch, if he is still here next year, or Burrell at some point?)<br /><br />P.S. "Game-issued" apparently means either they can't figure out whether someone wore it at all (like the helmet) or it was definitely issued to a specific player but they can't se certain it was worn by him. As to the Sanches jersey, they can actually be certain it wasn't as he was released a couple weeks before that game. But I was still happy to get a game-quality 1991-style jersey for just $75; beats the $225 or $300 in the gift shop!Steve F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00753488569249068229noreply@blogger.com