Life Collecting Goals

Hey everyone! I'm back to regularly updating this blog, and i couldn't think of a better way then outlining a running list of my life goals for my collection. I plan to update this list often with each great idea that i have and each goal i decide to undertake.

Starting off this list is the greatest idea i feel like i have ever had. I want to get a Red Sox jersey and personalize it like so....

I can't decide if i want it in white or grey. The white Home jersey would obviously look better for autographs however, the home jerseys for the Sox never have names on the back and the Sox also won the World Series in St. Louis, hence they were wearing an away jersey. So that has yet to be decided and i am leaning toward the white Home jersey. Tell you what, to all my faithful readers, leave a comment and say which jersey you think i should get.

Anyway, on with my idea. So i order this personalized jersey (complete with a 2004 World Series patch on the sleeve)......

So with this patch on the sleeve, i plan to seek out all 25 players from the 2004 World Series roster and get all 25 to sign the back of the jersey all around the letters and numbers. The roster (and my "targets") are as follows:

1. Alan Embree
2. Bill Mueller
3. Bronson Arroyo
4. Curt Schilling
5. Curtis Leskanic
6. David Ortiz
7. David Roberts
8. Derek Lowe*
9. Doug Mientkiewicz
10. Doug Mirabelli*
11. Gabe Kapler*
12. Jason Varitek*
13. Johnny Damon
14. Keith Foulke
15. Kevin Millar
16. Kevin Youkilis*
17. Manny Ramirez*
18. Mark Bellhorn
19. Mike Myers
20. Mike Timlin
21. Orlando Cabrera
22. Pedro Martinez
23. Pokey Reese
24. Tim Wakefield
25. Trot Nixon*

* = I already have their autograph but not on the jersey.

Another goal is to get a game used bat by Trot Nixon. This has become a goal of mine recently ever since Geoff and I went to a Paw Sox game and we almost got a game used bat from Kevin Kouzmanoff. Ever since then i have longed to have a game used bat on my "mantle" someday. And of course, i would love to have one of Trot's. This leads me to my next goalish topic. I don't think i will ever be satisfied with a Trot Nixon autograph, because i already have so many, yet everytime i see a piece of Trot Nixon's memorabilia, i just invision how it would look with Trot's sig on it. So that could be a problem since i technically just said that i will never be satisfied with my Trot Nixon collection, but i think that a collection is never truly complete, because there is always something else you could get.

So like i said, this is a running list, i will update more later because i do have other goals, i just don't feel like writing them now.

Keep On Collecting!!