Two Coreys, One Bip

I have quite a few Bips, but not this one. I had never seen this card until 2007 when it was passed through me digitally by my two favorite Coreys. Wait, what? Well, one Corey e-mailed me the scan and I promptly forwarded it to another Corey- my then-brother-in-law and noted all-around-good-guy who's the biggest Bip fan I know (It's worth noting that Corey 1 HATES Bip as much as Corey 2 loves him). Also note that I said 'two favorite Coreys'- I don't want Kory Blum or Cory Davis or any Coris to take offense. I'm pretty sure I've offended Corey Cooper but that's definitely not a first. One infamous night a few years ago, a bunch of us were hammered drunk and, according to all accounts I yelled at him a bunch that "Corey Cooper doesn't tell me what to do! When the hell has a Corey Cooper told a Joe Lanek what do do? Never! See, Tyler Kirk might be able to hint around and suggest what might be a good idea but he doesn't tell me what to do- and he's Tyler Kirk! And if Tyler Kirk doesn't tell me what to do, then some Corey Cooper SURE AS FUCK doesn't tell me what to do!" Later through the night, my cousin Mitchell ended up getting antiqued with an entire bag of flour and eventually I broke three bones in my hand punching Tyler in the shoulder at like seven in the morning. Yep, good times...

Couple O' Shoutouts

Just thought I'd throw out a couple of shoutouts before I go get a delicious five dollar footlong...
Until I pulled this card the other day, I'd forgotten about this guy. He was part of the deal, along with Bay and Ollie Perez that brought a certain womanbeater back home. One person that I imagine didn't forget about him is everybody's favorite Gaslamp Baller and all-around good guy (who spells his first name the right way)...

...and here's one for Timmy of Timmy's World fame. A couple of months ago, he requested a J.J Furmaniak card and, while I don't have any of him as a Padre, I got this one the other day. I know he was in the A's system in 2008 because he absolutely killed the Missions every time he played against them in MLB '08 (I was playing in career mode and suuuucked enough to spend the entire season in Double-A ball).

Happy Bip Roberts Day!

One year ago today, I posted a Bip Roberts card as a shout-out to my then-brother-in-law Corey who is, you guessed it, a big Bip fan. With February 10th being of absolutely no significance otherwise, I nonetheless declare today, and all February 10ths to follow, Bip Roberts Day. Hear hear!

Here is your annual Bip Roberts Day batch of Bip links:

• RWF of I Heart Halos! profiles his three favorite on-card autographs (Baseball Outside of Anaheim Edition). including a Vegas Stars Bip.
• Thorzul urges you to Reach Out And Bip Someone.
• Baseball Card Bust profiles Bip's '93 Fleer as a member of the Reds.
• LA Times article from 1990 about Bip struggling with his father's drug addiction and another from the NY Times one year later.
• Steve Is Alive humorously highlights Bip in the first of his "Athlete Spotlight" series.

Honestly, I'm surprised I came up with that many... I hope at least a few people write something new about him between now and next February 10th. Happy Bip Roberts Day, everybody! Celebrate Responsibly!

One For Corey

The sole purpose of today's post is to appease to a very specific subset of FoC reader--- the Bip fan/ greatest bro-in-law ever/ occasional beard farmer/ all-around-good-guy best known as C-Rob demographic. Behold:



I'm really excited that it's already almost that time of year where we spend half of our time texting back and forth about the Padres. I think my thumbs might need an extended Spring Training to prepare for six arduous months of bemusement, frustration, and dismay...