Cardboard God: Andy Van Slyke

I don't want to comment on the McLouth deal until at least the terms of the deal are released (or perhaps until he's moved out of center field), but so I can continue to deliver on my recent trend of only posting something on Tuesdays, here's a nice link for you:

Josh Wilker revists the Pirates for the first time in a year by featuring an Andy Van Slyke card (which I had as a kid!):

If you say Pittsburgh Pirates to me I think of a raucous party, Sister Sledge blaring, free-swinging sluggers Al-Olivering line-drive doubles into the gap and speedsters Omar-Morenoing around third and sliding into home safely in a cloud of glittering, vaguely illicit dust, the giddy treble of the disco in the Pirates’ fearsome game supported by the rock-solid morally upright thumping bass of slugging elder statesman Roberto Clemente on one end of the decade and slugging elder statesman Willie Stargell on the other.

In short, I like the Pirates. And not for nothing, but I have been to more than a few major league baseball stadiums and as far as I have seen the only one that incorporates baseball cards into the very structure of their building is the Pirates’ current stadium, which as I recall has baseball cards of former Pirates embedded into the surfaces of walls and/or pillars out in the concourse behind the left-field bleachers.