OK? My point is the grading standards have been in flux for long before the TPGs came into being. Therefore, the TPGs can be solely blamed for any change in standards.
Merely asserting that there were "decades of grading standard change" does not make it so. I've been collecting coins since the 1950s and IMO the real change of grading standards can be directly tied to the rise of the major TPGs.
Yes they can because they exist to hold the standards and to make an objective judgment. Instead they have grab hold of the public’s excitement for gradeflation and capitalized on it. I don't hate TPGs but they have exploited the desire to have higher and higher graded coins.
Mets lost on a circus in CF ... i got it I got it!! ""What's your wife's name and what's she like?" Choo Choo replied "My wife's name is Mrs. Coleman and she likes me, Bub." While we are on Ralph Kiner: "All of Rick Aguilera's saves have come in relief appearances." "All the Met wins on the road against Los Angeles this year have come at Dodger Stadium." "It's Father's Day today at Shea, so to all you fathers out there, Happy Birthday." "The Mets are winless in the month of Atlanta" "Reggie Jackson called himself the spoon that stirred the cup." Ralph called Hubie Brooks "Mookie" for an entire show once. "And it's going...going...going to be caught" Kiner's call on a long fly ball that he thought was going to be a home run at Dodger Stadium. "We'll be back with our special guest Gary Cooper right after these important messages" Kiner's teaser on opening day 1985 when he was awaiting an interview with Gary Carter, hero of the game who had won the game with a 10th inning walk-off home run. Wikipedia: Kiner was known for his occasional malapropisms, usually connected with getting people's names wrong, such as calling broadcasting partner Tim McCarver as "Tim MacArthur". He even once called himself "Ralph Korner".[9]
I concur with your words regarding being minimally informed. To my judgment, a general state of "very informed" could only occur after reaching natural limit(s) in certain part of our brain. With the anterior sense, one could be disposed to develop comportment(s) that other humans would possibly categorize as "crazy". (However, some of the "affected" individuals would truly be our top representatives.) More than a billion humans would be willing to accept the adverb "very" when placed in front of something that would be acknowledged with lesser degree than a highest, possible recognition. To my gusto, Lehigh96's "very informed" pronouncement isn't part of an exception to my aforementioned sentence. Therefore, when reading "oxymoronic" and "moronic" from your part, I totally obscured something similar to my veridical conclusions. Maintain in mind that I was remembering Lehigh96's usual fervor to communicate something. Part of my ratiocination was also inclined towards possible inconsistency in his sentences, but there are times...capricious times...when some of my lustful sentiments are too powerful to be ignored while reading and understanding a contrast. (If you would have closed it better, then I probably wouldn't have demonstrated a likely inconvenience with part of my mentality.) Salutations.
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Uhhh what happened to this thread? Did I take too long a nap? CAC has NEVER Made a mistake!!!!!!! :yes: