Ben Woods

Author, Drupal web developer and college sports fanatic - from Louisville but now in Baltimore. Still working on '72, '73 and '75 Topps baseball sets.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@OnCatcher @notgaetti Do you actually believe this prevented someone from scoring? The third-base coach doesn't have to stay stationary.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@NormOrnstein Yeah, the point is to treat it like a sports game. Advertisers need to get their money's worth!

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@veotechnologies Thanks for responding - finally got it worked out (the issue was on our side, my contact gave me the wrong info).

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@veotechnologies does anyone answer support requests? I've submitted two this past week with no response. Our club is paying for your service, so it would be great to receive a response.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@CardsTb @CardsStory For a worthless card? No thanks.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@CardsTb @CardsStory You really have a '90 Fleer Jose Uribe in there?

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@frank_lubatti I'm pretty confident these cards were signed later and were not inserted in packs autographed. I think Goldin did a signing at some point with these, as I've seen COAs floating around for them too.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@jj9892454 @MLB @MLBNetwork There's a big difference between fans gambling and players gambling. For example, they advertise beer all over the place too, but the players aren't drinking beer in the dugout.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@brianneubert "What rules?" -Sam Gilbert

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@BigRonsCards @CardboardEchoes @sports_sell @TheHobby247 I'll take if still available.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@dmarek94 @Topps I can't imagine there are too many players who have their complete stats on their final cards, right? I can sort of understand the possibility of creating a card for Mays as a sure HOF'er, but if a player isn't signed to a team, what team appears on the card?

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@GeneSteratore Did you mean to say that it was too close to call in realtime, but that the ball clearly hit the backboard before it was blocked? Because that's what happened if you watch the replay.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@riczaj01 @brianneubert Curious about your definition of "it works" when losing to a team that has a kenpom rating near 300. It doesn't work when you miss shot after shot that's wide open.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

That might be the worst coaching performance I've ever watched in an NCAA game. Why on earth a team would keep jacking up 3s when they have the national player of the year and a guy a foot taller than anyone is rather unbelievable to me.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@CarolSOtt Not sure I understand this tweet – I've never heard anyone claim you could drive from downtown Baltimore to downtown DC in 30 minutes.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@kevinjthull Need to add a mechanism that announces, "HIT THE BIG RED BUTTON" if the speaker begins talking for five seconds without doing so, then you'll be good to go!

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@Rheault_ism @tradingcarddb @CardPurchaser This is one of my favorite sets because it reminds me of trips to the card shop in '86. I wanted to buy older packs, but Topps were too expensive. I didn't want to buy complete junk like '81s ... at least '82 Fleer had a chance to hit a Ripken for 50 cents.

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@coachkennypayne I vividly remember walking out of Freedom Hall at one of the last regular-season games in '86 hearing someone complaining about Billy T. As a 9-year-old my only thought was, "just wait until the tournament, Billy T will take care of business."

[Ben Woods @bwoods43]

@ProudSocialist Does anyone really believe the "truth" coming from someone who has been quoted as saying he doesn't believe in germ theory? https://t.co/HpGyoP8Ngk