I was just thinking about how much more I was into baseball in particular when I was younger, but also basketball and other sports. I think the biggest reason I find it difficult to get enthusiastic about rooting for the home team now isn't so much that I'm too old, but that when you don't know if next year your favorite player is going to become a Yankee you can't invest too much into them.
Exhibit A: Johnny Damon, yea we could argue at length about the contract negotiations and how some people believe it was really Theo Epstein's fault, but the end result was one of the big heros of the Red Sox, slayer of the curse, went to the Yankees.
Given this effect, I've been wondering what the carry over is to card collecting. I think it can easily explain why I like the older cards than the new ones. I couldn't care less about having a set of cards from the current Red Sox team, but I'd love to put together team sets from any year prior to say... 1981.
I do enjoy the signature cards that come out now, but I wouldn't bother putting together a team set. I just enjoy the ones that I've lucked into getting. That's about it.
I also wonder how the younger generation is dealing with all this. Neither of my kids is much into watching sports at all, let alone collecting cards. I do see that the teachers at school are pushing it on the kids though. I just tell my kids if they don't want to wear a shirt or hat on "Red Sox Day" at school, they don't have to. I used to buy Red Sox stuff, Celtics stuff, etc, for the kids but they never wear it anyway so why waste the money?
Exhibit A: Johnny Damon, yea we could argue at length about the contract negotiations and how some people believe it was really Theo Epstein's fault, but the end result was one of the big heros of the Red Sox, slayer of the curse, went to the Yankees.
Given this effect, I've been wondering what the carry over is to card collecting. I think it can easily explain why I like the older cards than the new ones. I couldn't care less about having a set of cards from the current Red Sox team, but I'd love to put together team sets from any year prior to say... 1981.
I do enjoy the signature cards that come out now, but I wouldn't bother putting together a team set. I just enjoy the ones that I've lucked into getting. That's about it.
I also wonder how the younger generation is dealing with all this. Neither of my kids is much into watching sports at all, let alone collecting cards. I do see that the teachers at school are pushing it on the kids though. I just tell my kids if they don't want to wear a shirt or hat on "Red Sox Day" at school, they don't have to. I used to buy Red Sox stuff, Celtics stuff, etc, for the kids but they never wear it anyway so why waste the money?