SCD Drops Coaches Corner- NY Daily News

[sportscentury]

Like this???

Brett - just cut and paste into your message. No need to add as an attachment.

As for SCD and Coaches Corner, SCD knew of the endless problems with Coaches Corner for years and years and didn't do a thing. Too little far too late in my book. Years ago, when Montbriand, Bushing, Grob, etc., used to write articles on game used items, the magazine offered something of value, but those days are long, long gone.

As for the bible of the hobby, that is a laugh. If there is a bible, it's the collection of independent websites like Hobby Kings and Game Used Forum. These are what collectors read to find out what is really going on in the hobby. SCD and Becketts are garbage and have been for many years.

[sox83cubs84]

It's not even acceptable bathroom reading.

Sure it is...it gives you something to use if you forgot to fill the toilet paper dispenser .

Dave M.
Chicago area

[suicide_squeeze]

This will have very little, if any, effect on Coach's Corner auction sales.

After all, how many people still subscribe to SCD?

Coach's Corner has a built in bidder list in the thousands, that they have been acquiring over the past 20 years.

Sammy,

So are you saying that people who hear this news, the same people that have been buying from Coaches Corner's auction, won't react at all and want to know why?

Would that be because people who have been buying bad fraudulent items for many years are not ready to accept their mistakes, and the fact they have a pile of GARBAGE in their collections?......and, in doing so (facing the fact that Coaches Corner is nothing but a sweat shop that pushes bad items) would they be essentially caving into the fact their collections (of CC stuff) are worthless?

Is this the socio-idelogical (psychological) reason why some of the auction houses have stayed in business for as long as they have?......."Once you buy one bad piece, you have to support the fact that you just couldn't have made a mistake?"

I don't understand that reasoning, but the thought did cross my mind.

Short of that.........are there really that many stupid "lemmings" collectors in our hobby?

[allstarsplus]

Sure it is...it gives you something to use if you forgot to fill the toilet paper dispenser .

Dave M.
Chicago area

Agreed!!!

[worldchamps]

I have been very vocal on this issue and how i would not be renewing my subscription due to the Coaches Corners ads. Hearing this however will change my mind. Even though the reading material and ads have shrunk drastically, I will renew.

If you are reading SCD, thank you for doing the right thing.

[David]

As I understand, the ad content of the magazines is beyond the control of the editors and certainly beyond the control of the writers. It's the publisher who makes ad decisions. An editor can quit his job in protest (and sometimes maybe should), but remember that he has no control over the ads, other than trying to persuade his employer. I point this out this as the editors usually take most of the heat.

[suicide_squeeze]

As I understand, the ad content of the magazines is beyond the control of the editors and certainly beyond the control of the writers. It's the publisher who makes ad decisions. An editor can quit his job in protest (and sometimes maybe should), but remember that he has no control over the ads, other than trying to persuade his employer. I point this out this as the editors usually take most of the heat.

Sounds correct.

And in a day and age when the economy is seriously compromised, what does it say for "Coaches Corner" that at THIS time, SCD decided to pull the plug on a paying sponsor?

It doesn't neccessarily speak volumns for SCD (in moral gumption) as much as it spells out exactly how foul Coaches Corner is in conducting their scam business, IMO.

SCD just couldn't handle (justify) this menacing boat anchor any longer, so they threw them overboard.

[earlywynnfan]

I'm confused; my most recent issues of SCD do have ads for CC. However, the past two monthly auctions have NOT been in there; only the first page.

So I guess they're still taking ads, just not publishing the whole auction or those auction previews/reviews??

Ken
earlywynnfan5@hotmail.com

[kneerat]

Ken, I would assume that your issues still have the ads because those issues were most likely printed and laid out weeks ago. I would imagine that in the next couple weeks you wont see any CC ads.

[skipcarayislegend]

A collector acquaintance forwarded the following email exchange he had with someone at Coach's Corner. I don't know who it was that responded but my guess would be Lee. According to this person at CC, it was Coach's Corner's decision to break ties with SCD, not the other way around. (Dave Grob speculated as much recently on the MEARS site: http://www.network54.com/Forum/42624...oaches+Corner-) Seems SCD had every intention of continuing its relationship with CCSA, all of you haters be damned. SCD got a lot of pats on the back about this since it broke, all for not, imo. Assuming CC's response is accurate, we're not the only ones who think SCD is worthless.

When T.S. O'Connell was still allowing comments on his blog, one of the bigger anti-CCSA posters was someone named "Mike the ring guy." When the comments at SCD were shut down, Mike started his own blog: http://www.sports-rings.com/blog.htm

It looks like CCSA's Lee has been posting there in response to Mike's rants.

Here's the email from CCSA about the blog and their split from SCD:

"<name withheld> basically EVERY SINGLE THING in their is false starting with the SCD thing. We never were banned from running ads in SCD. Due to the lack of return on our investment from the mag(remember when they had 100 page issues, now they are down to 20 or so!) and the fact that they were planning to run their own auctions (collect.com) we decided to run our own catalogs!

If you check, for the last 2 months we have only run 2-page ads and were planning on stopping that completely this month! I don't know where these ridiculous rumors start, but people love to hear about this hobby trash for some reason! Also, nobody at SCD ever returned an email with the response mentioned in the article. Even the mention of a Josh Gibson ball is complete fabrication!! Our legal team is looking into our options, and where the rumors started.

Thanks for the email and sorry that you had to hear these far-fetched stories!! If you have any other questions, just ask!"