Happy to be here (SEKY) (Warning: I TYPE A LOT)

**DaveNCS** · 05-30-2014, 02:21 AM

Hi all!

I've always been more of a fan of breaking packs and selling/trading away the contents than collecting for myself, but over the Memorial Day weekend I had a lot of time to kill while running the BBQ smoker and found myself watching case/box breaks on Youtube, followed by watching livebreaks on different stream sites. It's definitely a great way to waste about 12+ hours a day! I've been out of the hobby for a very long time, and I'm just now starting to think about collecting in addition to just being a guy with cards people might want(even though my current inventory is basically 0, haha).

I expect that if I'm going to get back into fiddling around with these awesome pieces of cardboard I might want to ingratiate myself into the community, and I remembered this website from when I was spending all my disposable income on cards around a decade ago(I wish I could remember my username from back then, but that was two computers ago). I'm happy to see that this place has only evolved in my absence. I don't have access to my old e-mail address anymore but I remember getting an automated SCF e-mail on my birthday every year!

When it comes to cards I'm a pretty flexible guy. I might be more concerned with collecting all of the Parks & Recreation autographs than some of you are with Durants, Trouts, Manziels, etc. I'm a pretty chill guy(interpret that however you want), and if I have it you can pretty much bet it's up for trade/sale. I live about half a mile away from a nice smallish post office so I can definitely see myself getting into trading once I start building up an inventory.

As far as sports go? I love the NFL, I like the NBA(I want to love it, but I'm waiting), and I don't watch baseball(yet). I like UFC and love pro wrestling way, way too much(Stockholm Syndrome).
As far as cards go? I love the NBA, I think MLB has the best-looking and most collectible cards by a looooooooooooooooooong country mile, and I like NFL even though there's a ton of chaff.

I picked a favorite MLB player today because I wanted someone from MLB I could 'collect' for trading purposes. that player is Hyun-Jin Ryu. I chose him and then realized I'd be competing with both Dodgers fans and S. Korean fans, but competition is half of the fun, right?(Oh I hope I'm right)

Living somewhere without a local team growing up I've always had the luxury of just picking players I like and rooting for their team(as I did for many years with Charles Barkley) or just rooting for whoever is on my fantasy team. My fiance and I are moving to western Washington within the next couple of years, and if/when Seattle gets another shot an an NBA team I will be very happy(and probably just collect Trailblazers until then).

Anyway, that's me, hope I didn't bore you, be glad to answer any Q's, and really just happy to be here.

edit: also, uhh, I'm a bit of a night owl. so I will probably show up on the board any random time of day or night

**frizzzlecake** · 05-30-2014, 03:21 AM

welcome to the site! Always nice to have another Night Owl aboard!

**andrewhoya** · 05-30-2014, 11:03 AM

Hey Dave! Welcome to SCF. Good luck finding some nice Ryu cards. You can check out our inventory manager-- they have a great player collector feature that helps you track all of the ones you have and need of a certain player!