Here are a couple of Josh Wise items I've picked up. I got the 2013 Press Pass Ignite Hot Threads firesuit relic from eBay sometime during the last couple of months. I think multi-colored swatches are more common in NASCAR products than they are in the various stick-and-ball sports, but I couldn't pass on this three-color piece. I am not really sure where I got the autographed card, but I found it while sorting a bunch of stuff and figured I might as well scan it and put it up here on the blog. It's from some 2013 Press Pass product, and it is numbered # 15 / 25. You can tell by the relatively blank front of his suit that sponsors are hard to come by when you're a one-car operation without a superstar driver.
There isn't a race this weekend, so I can't fill space by talking about where my favorite drivers qualified and finished this week. I suppose I will just leave it at that.
MLB.tv offered a couple days' worth of free games to get people to sign up prior to the start of the baseball season. That was pretty nice of them. I still haven't decided if I will take them up on it or if I will just hold out for the price to drop a bit. It was fun to watch a couple of Astros - Royals preseason games, even if the Astros did lose both of the games I watched. I am trying to get excited about fantasy baseball this year, but I haven't been able to muster much excitement at all. I am in a few leagues still, but I usually prepare a lot more for my drafts and then go through my rosters all the time looking for updates and guys who are coming out of Spring Training with good numbers, but I have not done any of that. I even have a spreadsheet that projects what my league's numbers will look like that the end of the season so I can see what pace I'm on compared to everyone else, but I haven't even loaded the teams into it yet.
I went through a big nascar phase when I was in my young teens and I always gravitated towards the independents and underdogs like Josh myself. It's hard to not want someone like that to succeed
ReplyDeleteThey are fun to cheer for, but you have to kind of manage expectations given the uphill battle they face just to get onto the track, let alone finish a race and move up in the standings.
DeleteNice cards! That auto is from the Flagship 2013 set. I like the design- it's somewhat of a throwback to the 1999 Signings set, and the 1999 set is my favorite design Press Pass ever did. I'm surprised but glad they included him so much in sets- the guys who don't have sponsors usually get ignored.
ReplyDeleteI think he got a little recognition from the Dogecoin / Reddit thing, but this card predates that. Maybe he's just got some mixture of charisma and accessibility that made Press Pass include him in their offerings.
DeleteI wonder how long it will take to get a new NASCAR licensee. I am tired of the same old offerings popping up on my eBay feed.