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wudu44
Posts: 87
Joined: Jul 2017
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Friday, August 17, 2018 3:27 PM | |
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trauty
Posts: 228
Joined: Nov 2016
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Friday, August 17, 2018 3:50 PM | |
Wow! What a beautiful autograph. What a joke.
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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Friday, August 17, 2018 3:55 PM | |
Real cool cards, but I agree these guys should learn how to write their name!
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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kcjays
Posts: 745
Joined: Jan 2012
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Friday, August 17, 2018 4:17 PM | |
I read an article, written by Mike Schmidt, a few years ago. He went to the Phillies Spring Training clubhouse to get autographed baseballs for a charity event. He left a box of baseballs out for the players to sign and returned a couple of days later. He was lamenting, in the article, how the clubhouse attendent had to help him identify who had signed which baseball. Most were merely scribbles and there was next to nothing which allowed for a signature to be identified. He wondered when and why players have stopped "writing" their name. Can't say that I disagree.
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Corky
Posts: 863
Joined: May 2015
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Friday, August 17, 2018 4:23 PM | |
I think part of the problem has been that the companies do not push/suggest that the players sign a better signature. I can understand the players thought process, they have hundreds of not thousands of stickers to sign so they don't care. As long as they put some effort they get paid.
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trauty
Posts: 228
Joined: Nov 2016
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Friday, August 17, 2018 4:49 PM | |
I get it, I really do. My signature gets a lot shorter after signing a few (I used to sign payroll checks and the first 5 were pretty good quality and by the end it was the first few letters and then a bunch of loops). I just wish they'd at least give a little effort - even if you can't read it. Just a 2 (or a cursive J) and an apostrophe is kinda weak. I'd imagine that everybody just calls him "J" so he thinks that's acceptable (and I guess it is) but I'd like to think that they'd think about the end user and not want them to think they were too stupid to write more than 1 letter. Maybe some of the athletes think the card companies just want them to sign their first name (or initials) so that's what they do. I'd imagine that the card company reps are somewhat to blame. I'm sure they prefer the guys that crank them out fast even if they look bad.
Edited on: Aug 17, 2018 - 4:52PM
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bevans
Posts: 436
Joined: Oct 2016
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Friday, August 17, 2018 5:04 PM | |
I think this is the most unintentionally hilarious autograph in my collection. Seriously, the front of the card says "Yours Truly, <large whitespace>" and he couldn't figure out where he was supposed to sign?
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cl_kyle
Posts: 839
Joined: Feb 2013
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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Friday, August 17, 2018 8:37 PM | |
That Getzlaf gets a laugh from me. (I can't believe I really just typed that)
Seriously though, I read a news article about this epidemic once, and a popular athlete (possibly Auston Matthews) claimed that they don't teach cursive in schools anymore, so these young people (athlete or otherwise) literally don't know how to sign their name. I'm no teacher, and I have no children, so I can't verify if there is any truth to it, but I guess it's a possibility to consider???
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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spazmatastic
Posts: 5,905
Joined: Dec 2014
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Friday, August 17, 2018 9:17 PM | |
It's completely true that schools don't teach cursive writing anymore. My nephew is 11 and still can't read cursive when any adults write in a birthday card or something. He's getting better at recognizing the letters, but he certainly can't write in cursive at all. I think I learned cursive in 3rd or 4th grade.
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