One Goal. One hundred thousand.

Happy New Year!

I'm going to skip the whole year-end/decade-end recap post. You all know my favorite athletes and teams, so you can probably guess what my favorite sports moments were. 

One thing I do want to mention: the Red Sox alone had more championships in the 2010s than every New York-area pro sports team combined. Unfortunately that includes the Devils.. but at least they played for a championship. 

I shouldn't brag. The Devils have been hot garbage ever since, and this jerk left Jersey immediately after the 2012 Stanley Cup Final (or maybe before the final, since he was invisible against L.A.) 

Also I'm expecting some rough Red Sox seasons up ahead. Mookie Betts will probably end up with the Padres or Rangers, the Yankees will win their 28th and possibly even their 29th title before Boston gets back to the World Series, and there may be another work stoppage on the horizon. 

Which is why I'm hoping to visit Cooperstown this year while I can still enjoy the game. (And because I'll be turning 40 in August.)

That's one option. Another option would be the National Sports Card Convention - which will be right here in New Jersey this year!

I've never been to the National. (I've never even heard one of their songs, haha) From what I've heard and read and seen online it's like the Super Bowl of sports card collecting.

That would be a perfect place to purchase my 100,000th card, don't you think?

I'm in the process of double-checking and updating my collection on TCDB, but at the moment I have just over 96,000 cards.

Technically I might already have 100,000 cards in my collection - but factory sets are counted as one unopened item, not 400-800 individual cards. And so my goal for 2020 is to acquire card number 100,000 according to TCDB.

That's it. That's my only goal. I could make a list of personal things and hobby-related things that I hope to accomplish (but probably won't.) Certainly I'd like to finish some sets this year. I want to add more vintage cards and expand my player and team PCs.

Individually, most of my collecting goals would likely fall short. It would be easier and much more enjoyable if they were part of one larger goal. Also, it gives me the freedom to collect how and what I want this year. 


As for this blog, you may have noticed some design changes are in progress. In the next few days I will have a new header photo and the tabs will be updated. I had hoped this would all be done by 1/1 but the holidays slowed me down a bit. My immediate goal is to have the blog update complete by this weekend, to coincide with the return of my All-Time Teams series. Hope you'll join me for the Angels and Dodgers.

 
Until then Happy New Year, Happy New Decade, and Happy Collecting!


Thanks for reading!


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