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Dammit, Cerrone: Inaccuracies like this one give bloggers a bad name

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Matt Cerrone put up an image of the back of a Wally Backman Topps card at MetsBlog.com today, referring to it as his “1991 Topps card.”

But clearly, the photographed card is a 1991 Topps Traded card, from the set Topps put out later in the season to reflect players on new teams and rookies.

The dead giveaway is that it’s card number 3T (the t is for traded). Also, if I recall correctly, the backs of the cards in the Traded sets were always lighter than those in the regular edition. It was the color of the card that actually made me bother looking at the number to see if it was indeed Traded — a solid indication of how pathetic I am.

Anyway, in clicking around to make sure I wasn’t making a similarly egregious error in reporting Cerrone’s mistake, I found this, also from the 1991 Topps Traded set:

World’s Champions

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This just in from the TedQuarters San Francisco desk:

Some Giants fans — specifically, the ones who man the TedQuarters San Francisco desk — have organized a Facebook group in the hopes of bringing back the “World’s Champions” jerseys that the team wore in 1906.

They looked like this:

According to the Baseball Almanac, the unis were the brainchild of legendary manager and baseball fashionista John McGraw:

Since McGraw had also been heavily criticized for his refusal to participate in a post-season series in 1904, his smugness was unrestrained and he outfitted his new champions with the words “WORLD CHAMPIONS” across the chests of both the home and road suits for the 1906 season.

Your move, Bruce Bochy.

Reaching the target audience

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KFC, the restaurant chain that launched the sweet and savory Doublicious sandwich earlier this year, has a recipe for a costume idea. As part of its year-long campaign to celebrate founder Colonel Harland Sanders’ life and legacy, the chain is issuing a national challenge to dress as the Colonel’s Doublicious Double for Halloween. One of the lucky doubles will win free KFC Doublicious sandwiches for life.

– QSR Magazine.

I’m almost reluctant to share this because I don’t want any of you entering and diminishing my chances of winning free sandwiches for life. But TedQuarters is all about full disclosure.

I imagine people with more money and time to spend on Halloween costumes than I had four years ago will come up with something better than my costume. But let it be known that I thought dressing up like the Colonel was a good idea long before KFC ever did.

Also, I probably should’ve taken some photos after I got the bucket of chicken from KFC, or at least during the several surreal minutes I spent inside the KFC, waiting on the line to purchase chicken. And furthermore, buying a bucket of fried chicken and handing it out to passersby is a great way to make friends, not just on Halloween, but on any day of the year: