Why is Bucky Dent in my mailbox?
Posted by: Richie Rich in Baseball Cards, Books, Plugs, WTF
So I opened my mail last night … and there he was.
Bucky Dent. Or if you’re from Red Sox Nation, Bucky F-ing Dent.
Well, at least a three and a half inch cardboard facsimile of him in near-Mint condition.
This is cool. I like it. But wait … WTF?
Dent showed up in a plain white envelope addressed with a computer-generated label … but no return address. Postmarked from New York City on June 25th.
Hmmmm. NYC? My first thought was that I had cheesed off some Yankee fan (who thought I was a Red Sox fan) in some post or another. But that couldn’t be. Because I haven’t written anything about the Yanks in a while – heck I haven’t posted at all in two weeks. And besides, pissed off blog readers voice their displeasure immediately in the comments section – not via envelopes with mail-merged labels.
I bet other bloggers had Bucky Dent in their mailbox. It had to be a publicity stunt.
I was right.
- Purple Row and Bronx Banter and Was Watching got a Dent card.
- Dave Pinto at Baseball Musings and Rich Lederer at Baseball Analysts got George Scott cards.
- Will Carroll of ESPN got a Steve Swisher card.
- Craig Calcaterra at Shysterball also got a Dent card … and led the charge to find out who else got them and who sent them.
And to his credit – he figured it out.


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