But this is both good and bad news. Sometimes, before I start my message, I forget that I'm not on that other site, and I blank out the pre-populated email address here. Once I finish my message and hit the Post button, though, I go to an error page that tells me I didn't supply the required material. This would be an OK reminder, except that, when I hit the Back button to go put it in, MY MESSAGE IS GONE!

This has happened to me twice now, including after I posted a message in this topic on the day the blog entry was made, September 9. Can something be done here to "save" already-composed messages so that if we forget to put in a required field, we can have the whole message back? Or is forgetting to enter one of these fields such a bad transgression that it is deemed to be a suitable punishment to make the person start the message all over again?

That said, I'll try to reconstruct the essence of what I said on Thursday:

DeLeon was a reliever and a sometimes sixth starter for the 1993 Phillies before being traded to the White Sox in August of that year for Bobby Thigpen. The Phillies had signed him late in the 1992 season after he had been cut by the Cardinals. He made three starts for the eventual NL champs in 1993, the most famous one being that doubleheader 2nd game against the Padres that started around 1:30 a.m. and ended about three hours later.

When you're ~12 and sports cards prices quadruple in a couple years and everything is full of holograms and foil, you move on to something else.

I sort of wish I hadn't stopped collecting cards, but I found other things to throw away my allowance on in the coming years.

Still, '89 was when my card collecting peaked. And while I liked the newer, prettier cards, I hated the prices.

nice post on the 88 score traded card...if you learn one thing about DeLeon from the front of his card, it is that he wears #48.

It is like a catch-22, we want card companies to provide some more nice info (like uniform numbers on the back of the card), but if they are going to bother they better get it right.

I love the stadium club set, but I kinda hate that every kind of card after this point went this direction. One nice thing about the older full cardboard sets is you can easily flip through them with your fingers. You can't flip through the high glossy, photograph type cards without smudging up the front of them.

I wondered if maybe he gave up a lot of unearned runs, but that doesn't seem to be the case. He had a nasty splitter but didn't throw too many wild pitches.