Bad Wax

When I got back into collecting sports cards last year, it was mainly due to two blogs. Ben Henry’s Baseball Card Blog and Mario Alejandro’s Wax Heaven. About a week ago, Ben said on his website that by the end of the year he was going to ramp it down. Yesterday Mario said that by July 1st he would like to scale back also. This is definitely a blow to the blogging universe for cards.

Being a daily blogger (when it’s not your full time job) is a difficult proposition.  Sure the first month you pound out tons of posts and everything is running smoothly.  Then you have to take that first trip and you sweat out how you are going to post while you are away.  You get it done though, then you realize that you are not spending enough time with your significant other, that leads to scaling back to a post a day.  Then you might get sick or get a big project at work, your blog takes a hit and you feel like you are letting down your readers.

I think these two guys are just plain tired. I always felt it would be cool to dedicate one site to a bunch of authors, kind of like what a pack a day was like. You think about all the great blogs about cards and the different views we all have, I think it would be great.  In the end, I think that both Mario and Ben got burned out.  I can definitely see how that happens.  I really want Operation Topps to be an every day post, but sometimes, it’s just too much to put together in a day.  So I’ve cut back on my end, but at least I try and get at a minimum one post a day.

Somehow I think these two Blog giants are going to come back, either in a full or half throttle mentality.  I want to thank both of them for creating a place for all of us card geeks to come to and to air our voices.  If it is truly the last year (or month) for both of them, I wish them both the best of luck and to make a surprise post every once in a while.  Like the card industry, it’s real easy to burn out.  Hopefully, they won’t retire and will continue to post great insight into the collector’s universe, but hey I completely understand if they do. If anyone wants to get involved with a group blog site, where each member can post once a week please get in touch with me at chemgod1000@yahoo.com, maybe we can come up with some sort of e-zine.

Good luck to both Mario and Ben in all their future en devours!