Wednesday, January 25, 2012

What am I going to do?? I'm going to make it official!!! A Prince Fielder post!

I have to say I was pretty surprised the Tigers managed to scoop up Prince Fielder the other day.  I had no illusions that he would be coming back to Milwaukee.  I kept reading the scuttlebutt on who was wooing him and the speculation on where he would end up. I have a couple of buddies who are Tigers fans and they where going crazy!  Like the prodigal son coming home and taking his rightful place on the throne.  Right where his daddy played.  Of course it's common knowledge that Prince and his dad Cecil don't have a very good relationship, but I'm pretty sure every Tigers fan was pretty happy with the news.

AJ over at his blog The Lost Collector posed an interesting question. What do you do when one of your favorite players or a player you have a PC for goes to a new team?  And it's great timing because when I heard the news yesterday it's exactly what I thought about my Prince Fielder collection.  I never officially had him as a personal PC.  If you've read the blog before you'll notice I didn't have him up on the Who I Collect.  Sure he gets collected by default since he was a Brewer.  It got me thinking why when he was obviously one of the two best players on the team didn't I have a PC for him?  I don't know. I mean it's not like I didn't collect him, I have a huge stack of Prince Fielder cards and some really nice stuff too. Maybe it's that I didn't need another focus.   But I've decided to make it official and I've made my decision on the fate my collecting Prince Fielder.  He shall be added!  And I do plan to keep collecting his cards.  So it's official.  Prince now has his name officially up on the side board of Who I Collect.  I really don't know why it took him signing with another team to get me to take the plunge.  I guess it also begs the question if he had gone to another team would I still feel the same way?  I guess we'll never know.   I wish him all the best and I hope he has a great long career with the Tigers.
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6 comments:

  1. The Lost CollectorJanuary 25, 2012 at 10:04 AM

    Nice, good luck with your Prince collection!

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  2. hiflewJanuary 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM

    It's nice to see no hard feelings there, but it does seem to be a tough off season for the Brewers (and Brewers collectors such as yourself) with Fielder leaving and Braun's problems.

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  3. cynicalbuddhaJanuary 25, 2012 at 10:47 AM

    Yeah no kidding. I'm surprised the Brewers got Prince to stick around last year.

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  4. flywheelsJanuary 25, 2012 at 11:41 AM

    Several of the players I have collected have changed teams late in their careers (Glavine, Smoltz for example) and for me it doesn't matter. If you like the player then what team they play for seems irrelevant.

    I think it's kinda cool to have new cards in a different uniform of your favorite players. Seeing Smoltz in Red Sox and Cardinals unis was odd, but it brought some variety to my PC. Make sense?

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  5. cynicalbuddhaJanuary 25, 2012 at 12:10 PM

    Absolutely Colbey

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  6. Milwaukee SouthpawJanuary 26, 2012 at 2:18 PM

    I think if you like the player you just keep collecting their cards, no matter where they go. That's what I did when Griffey was briefly in Chicago (shudders).....

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